Robinson Secondary Library: Poetry Resources: Poetry Online &amp; Databases

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Websites & Databases

Many poems are available to you through the databases and on websites. If you identify an author of interest in the books, you will likely find additional poems by that author online. As with all digital searches, please scrutinize the website and information source; sometimes sites publish incorrect versions of poems (where line breaks, stanzas, and even words are altered from the original).

Poems

Websites

Click around within these websites for a multitude of poems; be sure to listen to poems too! You can select poems based on literary movements, topics, styles, and much more!

Criticism & Author Study

Databases for Author Information, Literary Criticism, and Poetry

Note: Use the Robinson Database Passwords when accessing the database at home.

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Books and Authors This link opens in a new window
Explore genre fiction and non-fiction. Includes Gale's What Do I Read Next? collection. Find your next book to read, and recommendations.
LitFinder This link opens in a new window
Literary works and authors throughout history; includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.