Early Twentieth Century American Sonnets: http://www.sonnets.org/am20th.htm
Features the works of Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay
and several other American writers who wrote sonnets in the early part
of the 20th centruy.
Shakespeare's Sonnet's: http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/
Contains all of Shakespeare's sonnets along with commentary. Great resource
but some of the text is hard to read.
Sonnet Central: http://www.sonnets.org/
Extensive site that features literary analysis, a bulletin board and
a search function. Sonnets are arranged both alphabetically (by author)
and by theme (such as sonnets about time). The interface is a little
clunky but if you hunt around you can find thousands of sonnets written
in Englisha and other languages.
The Poetry Porch's sonnet scroll: http://world.std.com/~jpwilson/scroll33.html
Publishes a scroll of sonnets and images submitted by readers. Submission
guidelines are at the bottom of the page.
Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/poetry.htm
The online version of the Atlantic Monthly. Read the controversial 1991
essay by Dana Gioia called "Can
Poetry Matter? The essay argues that poetry has declined as a cultural
force in the U.S. because it no longer speaks to a popular audience
and has become a domain for an inbred group of academic writers. Atlantic
Unbound also features many sound recordings of poems delivered through
real audio.
Glossary of poetic terms: http://shoga.wwa.com/~rgs/glossary.html
Definitions of poetic terms with hyperlinked cross references and guides
to pronunciation. Also provides some examples.
Poets' Corner: http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/
Let's you search by author, title or subject.
RhymeZone: http://rhyme.lycos.com/
Useful search engine that lets you type in a word and retrieve rhymes,
synonyms, homophones, words with the same first consonant (grouped by
the number of syllables). A great resource if you are attempting to
write in a form with a fixed rhyme or syllablic scheme.
trAce Online Writing Community: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/
A UK site that attempts to resemble a literary circle. Features include
poetry workshops, real-time literary debates, live poets in virtual
residence, and writers' journals in hypertext.
Voice of the Shuttle: Poetry Studies: http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english2.html#poetry
An extensive list of literary links that include sites devoted to writing,
criticism, genres and the workidual poets.