Links by Historical Period

The links here lead to starting points for looking into the poetry of different historical periods. For my favorite specific sites, see the "Highlights" section below.

• Medieval
  • Voice of the Shuttle: British-Saxon & Medieval
  • Jack Lynch's Literary Resources: Medieval
  • Berkeley's Online Medieval and Classical Library
  • The Labyrinth, Georgetown's Medieval Studies site
  • Luminarium, an anthology of Middle English literature
  • Literature of the French Middle Ages
  • Medieval Irish Poetry by Maureen O'Brien
  • Gwarnant, a site for medieval Welsh poetry by Jeff Davies

• Renaissance/Early Modern
  • Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance & 17th Century
  • Jack Lynch's Literary Resources: Renaissance
  • Luminarium: Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century
  • ERIC (The English Renaissance in Context) from the University of Pennsylvania
  • Early Modern Literary Studies
  • Early Modern French Literature

• Eighteenth Century
  • Voice of the Shuttle: Restoration & 18th Century
  • Jack Lynch's Literary Resources: Eighteenth Century and Eighteenth-Century E-Texts
  • EServer's Eighteenth-Century Studies, another archive of texts and resources
  • James Sutherland's 1948 book A Preface To Eighteenth Century Poetry
  • Annotated edition of The Pleasures of Melancholy produced by Thomas Kinsella's Literature Research class, with overview information on eighteenth-century poetry

• Romantic
  • Voice of the Shuttle: Romantics
  • Jack Lynch's Literary Resources: Romantic
  • Romantic Circles, a collaborative, peer-reviewed scholarly project
  • Romantic Links, Electronic Texts and Home Pages from Michael Gamer of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Romantic Period Literature Resources from Adriana Craciun
  • British Women Romantic Poets, a collection of electronic texts from UC-Davis.

• Victorian
  • Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian
  • Jack Lynch's Literary Resources: Victorian British
  • Victorian Women Writers Project
  • Patrick Leary's Victoria Research Web and Leary's 1995 essay about online Victorian studies

• Modern
  • Voice of the Shuttle: Modern (British and American)
  • Jack Lynch's Literary Resources: Twentieth-Century British and Irish
  • Richard A. Parker's annotated edition of Eliot's The Waste Land

• American (I know, I know, it's not a period, but this is how web catalogs are presently organized)
  • Voice of the Shuttle: American
  • Jack Lynch's Literary Resources: American
  • The wonderful site of The Academy of American Poets and its extensive catalog of poet links
  • If you have academic library access, you can see the HTI American Verse Project, which is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
  • Bartleby's electronic edition of Louis Untermeyer's 1919 Modern American Poetry
  • The Poetry Society of America
  • Middle Tennessee State University's page on African American Poetry