The work of many major poets can be reached through links at this site. Includes biographical information on poets and many works.

Full-text selections from Skelton's "Phillip Sparrow" and "The Tunning of Eleanor Rumming." by John Skelton. Includes notes.

Website containing links to various medieval poetry and poets including Dante, Chaucer, and other famous works.

This is the website Electronic Poetry Center from the University of Pennsylvania. It offers e-poetry, blogs, author information, and more.

This site provides texts of 16 of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poems. Also included is some basic biography information.

Text of four poems by Thomas Moore: "A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp," "Lalla Rookh," "Oft, in the Stilly Night," and "The Time I've Lost in." Site by University of Toronto.

Twenty-three selected full-text poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) are included with a bibliography and notes.

This site from the University of Toronto gives the full text of several of Alexander Pope's poems, including "The Rape of the Lock."

This site provides the texts to 41 of Robert Browing's poems as well as a brief biographical outline.

This site features biographical information about the Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney and links to full text examples of his poetry.

The University of Toronto provides links to poems by Thomas Love Peacock. It also contains biographical information on Peacock.

Lesson plan makes use of weekly poems for students to read, discuss, and study. Students compile a poetry portfolio to use for further learning in reading and writing, as well as engaging in interactive activities such as creative poetry writing and a family poetry project. Great resource!

This article provides ideas and lessons on how elementary teachers can integrate webcams from the Arctic and Antarctica into their teaching. Five webcams are highlighted as well as three lessons on writing poetry and observing animal behavior.

Students write biographical poems about a soldier. On November 11, the United States honors those soldiers who have fought for their country in military service. Across America, ceremonies are held to commemorate the efforts of the armed forces past and present.

This is a comprehensive resource on literary, philosophical, religious, scientific and technological advancements of the Victorian age. Learn about famous Victorian authors, literary genres and more.

This Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) portal gives access to biographical information about this Victorian social and polticial historian's life and work, such as his importan history of the French Revolution.

Clues to Walt Whitman's effort to create a new and distinctly American form of verse may be found in his Notebooks, now available online from the American Memory Collection.  In an entry to be examined in this lesson, Whitman indicated that he wanted his poetry to explore important ideas of a universal scope (as in the European tradition), but in authentic American situations and settings using specific details with direct appeal to the senses.

In this lesson, students explore the historical context of  Walt Whitman's concept of "democratic poetry" by reading  his poetry and prose and by examining daguerreotypes taken circa 1850.  Next, students will compare the poetic concepts and techniques behind Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" and Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again," and have an opportunity to apply similar concepts and techniques in creating a poem from their own experience.

This article describes ways to supplement a science unit on the water cycle with the book Water Dance by Thomas Locker. Ideas for art, writing, poetry, and creative movement are included.

Professor Kate Rushin describes the Harlem Renaissance as a large social and cultural movement fueled by many factors in this video from A Walk Through Harlem.