Poet Sites
Here is a selection of links to a number of webpages about individual poets, most
of which have examples of their work or biographical information of interest.
The Poetry Book Society is not responsible for the content of any of these sites.
A
Simon
Armitage
Simon Armitage's site includes biographical and bibliographic
information, reviews and articles and plenty of useful study material for students.
Attila the Stockbroker
The performance poet, musician and Brighton and Hove Albion Football club
fan's own site.
W.H. Auden
The New York-based Auden Society's website.
B
Charles
Baudelaire
Thomas Lovell
Beddoes The website of the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society
Sir
John Betjeman
This is the official site of The Betjeman Society.
Elizabeth
Bishop
This site is maintained by Vassar College, Bishop's alma mater.
William Blake
Sponsored
by the Library of Congress, this site is an extensive online archive dedicated
to Blake's life and work.
Alison
Brackenbury
Brackenbury's personal website has a range of articles and
reviews and poems. New poems are added every two months.
George
Mackay Brown
A site dedicated to the Bard of Orkney's life and work.
Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
Robert
Browning
Basil Bunting
This website is run by the Basil Bunting Poetry Centre at the University of
Durham.
Lord Byron
Website of The International Byron Society who organise Byron-related conferences,
lectures, exhibits and social events across the globe.
Byron
Society
The London-based Byron Society's site.
http://engphil.astate.edu/gallery/byron.html
This site has an impressive array of biographical material (letters, journals
etc) all about the mad, bad and dangerous to know poet.
C
Ciaran
Carson
Geoffrey Chaucer
This Harvard's University site is an excellent resource for information
on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
John
Clare
The Clare Society website.
Gillian
Clarke
Clarke's site features lots of helpful notes and exam tips for
students studying her poems.
e.e
cummings
Unofficial but informative online cummings resource.
D
Joolz Denby
The spoken-word artist's site.
Emily Dickinson
The Emily Dickinson International Society's website.
http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/emily.htm
HD (Hilda Doolittle)
Rita Dove
Carol
Ann Duffy
E
T. S. Eliot
F
Elaine
Feinstein
The poet, novelist and biographer's site features audiovisual
files of her reading her poetry.
Matthew
Francis
G
Allen
Ginsberg
The Ginsberg Trust's site.
http://www.ginzy.com/
A lively Ginsberg site.
Robert
Graves
The site of the St John's College Robert Graves Trust, it also
hosts pages for Gravesiana: the Journal of the Robert Graves Society and the Robert
Graves Society.
Lavinia Greenlaw
The poet, novelist and dramatist's website.
H
Seamus
Heaney
This website includes sound files of Heaney reading his works.
John Hegley
For information
about the bespectacled dog-loving comic poet's books and events look no further.
Mary Howitt
Ted
Hughes
The centre for Ted Hughes studies.
http://www.earth-moon.org/index2.html
I
J
A.B
Jackson
K
John
Keats
The website of the Keats-Shelley House. Situated on the Spanish
Steps in Rome it was where Keats died.
Weldon
Kees
John Kinsella
Rudyard
Kipling
L
Philip
Larkin The Larkin Society site
D.H.
Lawrence
Grevel Lindop
M
Roger
McGough
Marianne Moore
Paul
Muldoon
N
O
P
Ruth
Padel
Pascale Petit
Sylvia Plath
Plath
Online
Sylvia
Plath Forum
Edgar
Allan Poe
Ezra
Pound
Sheenagh Pugh
Q
R
Arthur
Rimbaud
Adrienne
Rich
Issac
Rosenberg
S
Siegfried
Sassoon
Anne
Sexton
William
Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu
Percy Bysshe
Shelley
Stevie Smith
Stephen Spender
Edmund Spenser
T
Dylan
Thomas
The official city of Swansea
site for Thomas.
Edward
Thomas
U
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W.B.
Yeats
The Yeats Society's site
Z
Benjamin
Zephaniah
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