Poetry Resources

 

General Writer's Resources

1. Guide to Online Information and Books for Writers. Short listing of sites. http://members.aol.com/ThomasPack/Writing.html

2. Christy Sheffield Sanford's Links. Personal choice of useful links. http://gnv.fdt.net/~christys/links.html

3. Literary Resources: Twentieth Century British and Irish. Excellent listing, maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/20th.html

4. Writer's free reference. List of free reference sites useful to writers. http://www.writers-free-reference.com/.

5. Refdesk. Dictionary and language resources. http://www.refdesk.com/factdict.html.

6. Special Search Engines. Leiden University's useful listing. http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm.

7. Electric Eclectic. Very extensive listings. http://bloxword.ca/jimsbmks.htm

8. Indispensable Writing Resources. Online writing resources for students. http://www.quintcareers.com/writing/writweb.html

9. Writers Write Online Journal. Much useful information in this online journal for authors and booklovers generally. http://www.writerswrite.com/journal

10. Writers Free Reference. List of free reference sites useful to writers. http://www.writers-free-reference.com/.

12. RefDesk. Extensive dictionary and language resources. http://www.refdesk.com/factdict.html.

13. Writing Tools. Very extensive listing, including those for technical writing. http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/%7Edreveskr/WT.html-ssi.

14. Poetry Links. M. Miriam Herrera's listing of resources, poets, workshops and journals. http://miriamherrerapoems.googlepages.com/poetrylinks.

Online Libraries

1. Online Books Page. University of Pennsylvania's listing of over 19,000 works: free. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html

2. Internet Public Library. Over 20,000 listings, not restricted to literature: free. http://www.ipl.org/div/books/index.html

3. US University Libraries. Open Directory's listing: terms of access on individual sites. http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Digital

4. Sunsite. Berkeley's listing of digital libraries: over 1000 in 45 countries. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

5. Library of Congress. Little of the material is actually online, but, once you've found what you want, your local library can borrow it for you through the interlibrary loan system. http://www.loc.gov/

6. British Library. Holds an astonishing amount of information (for which the catalogues, at least, are online). http://www.bl.uk/

Online Dictionaries

1. Online Rhyming Dictionary. Excellent. http://www.rhymezone.com

2. 1000Dictionaries. Very extensive listing of free dictionaries, thesauri, grammar guides, encyclopedia, etc. for most of the common languages. http://www.1000dictionaries.com/english_dictionaries_1.html

3. All Words. Online dictionary, including rhyming and slang, with Dutch, German, French, Italian and Spanish translations. http://www.allwords.com/.

4. Write Express. Search by type of rhyme. http://www.writeexpress.com/online2.html.

5. Dictionary.Net. Excellent compendium of dictionary entries and thesaurus. http://www.dictionary.net

Glossaries of Literary Terms

1. Glossary of Poetic Terms. Brief but useful definitions, examples and quotations. http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html

2. Uvic Writer's Guide. Brief glossary of literary terms. http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/

3. Glossary of Poetic Terms. Quite extensive. http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display_rpo/poetterm.cfm.

4. Minister Joe. Glossary of literary terms. http://www.ministerjoe.com/forums/glossary/litglossary/litglossaryq_s.html.

5. Prosody Guide. Invaluable. http://www.trobar.org/prosody/.

 

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