Literature & Literary Criticism: Poetry

Poems from 1750-1900 including Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and more.

Contains over 40,000 poems from over 200 American poets covering the Colonial period to the 20th century.

Find poems written by British authors between 600 to 1900

Find poems written by modern poets such as Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath and more.

Find poems written by African-American authors between 1900-1999

Find poems written by American authors between 1900-1999

Find poems written by British authors between 1900-1999