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Southwest Iowa Library Service Area Poetry Resources Web Resources (Remember that poetry found on the Internet must be uncopyrighted or old enough to be in the public domain.): The University of Toronto "Representative Poetry On-line" site offers full text of poetry classics at http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm. You may search by title, author, first line and keyword. Web of Poetry from LibrarySpot.com -- http://www.libraryspot.com/features/webofpoetry.htm. Poet Links at http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/otherpoet.htm provides links to selected poetry and biographical information -- indexed by author. Bartleby.com -- Great Books Online -- at http://www.bartleby.com/verse/ has one of the largest collections of free poetry on the web. Web Concordances -- features Keats, Hopkins, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake and Shelley. Poetry on Bibliomania -- http://www.bibliomania.com/0/2/frameset.html. Poet Seers -- poetry with a spiritual theme by Rumi, Confucius, Blake, etc. If you want to try an Internet search engine to locate a poem, select a phrase (title or text) that you feel pretty sure of – and enclose the phrase in quotation marks. For example, "when I am an old woman" will work to locate the poem entitled "Warning." Using "I will wear purple" may not work because the poem uses "shall" instead of "will." Using the quotation marks indicates that you want the phrase – not just the individual words. FirstSearch: You can often locate the collection containing a particular poem using WorldCat. For example if I search for "ode Grecian urn" as keywords, I retrieve 72 books with titles like The Finer Tone: Keats’ Major Poems or Endymion and other poems as well as Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems.
Updated 7/19/2010
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