Books
Amazon.com
The most popular bookstore on the web featuring almost five million books, CDs, and other related items for sale!
BookBrowser
If you love fiction, you'll love BookBrowser! This site has fiction reading lists (separated by categories, making them easier to navigate), tons of book reviews, information on forthcoming titles so you'll know when your favorite author's new book will be available for purchase, a list of links to on-line bookstores and related resources for avid readers, and information on authors' websites and pseudonyms.
BookFinder.com
Looking for used or rare books? BookFinder.com is the place to go! The powerful search engine here scans several on-line databases of used, rare, and out-of-print books for what you're looking for, and it's a totally FREE service! Also check out these related sites: 1Bookstreet.com, Advanced Book Exchange, Alibris, Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, Antiquarian Booksellers Online, AnyBook International, Bibliocity, Bibliofind, Flea Market Books, Old Book House, Powell's Books, and YourBooks.com.
Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature
For book lovers by a book lover. Has an indexed list of links to literary sites of all kinds.
Books.com
On-line bookstore with a great search engine to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Also includes news, reviews, and interviews with authors.
BookWire
Very impressive literary site that contains electronic versions of magazines, including Publisher's Weekly, Hungry Mind Review, Boston Book Review, Computer Book Review, Library Journal, and The Quarterly Black Review of Books, as well as the homepages for the Poetry Society of America, Mystery Writers of America, and National Book Critics Circle, among others. BookWire also provides a reading room of electronic texts available on the WWW, a calendar of events, links to related sites, and the very helpful BookWire Navigator (an easy-to-use index of everything on the site) and BookWire on-site search engine to help you find just what you're looking for!
Borders Books
Borders sells VPK's CDs and she often plays gigs at Borders as well. Check their website for more information!
Internet Book Information Center
This is THE site for literature enthusiasts. It includes everything, from reviews and on-line reference material to information on publishers and booksellers.
Poetry
General
American Verse Project
This impressive site is the result of a collaboration between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press to assemble an archive of American verse prior to 1920 on-line. To say this site is excellent is an understatement; if you want to read the complete poems of Edgar Allan Poe, for example, this is the place to go. Nice job, folks.
British Poetry 1780-1910
Nice hypertext archive of poetry at the University of Virginia, with a link to a similar site at Columbia University.
Electronic Poetry Center
This is a great jumping off point for everything poetic on the web! Has sections on poets, magazines, related sites, discussion lists, conferences, and tons of other stuff!
English Language and Literature Resources On-Line
Provided by the University of Toronto, there's a good chronological listing of poetry links here. Also has links to dictionaries, bibliographies, journals, and on-line collections.
The English Server Poetry Index
Excellent collection of poems and links to related sites.
The Internet Poetry Archive
Currently features the work of Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, and Yusef Komunyakaa.
The Literature & Poetry Page
Frequently updated and featuring emphasis on William Blake, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert W. Service, and Walt Whitman.
The Poetry Archives
Nicely indexed list of authors and their poetry, from Lascelles Abercrombie to W.B. Yeats.
Poets' Corner
To quote this page, it features "4,923 works by 591 poets." (It's updated frequently, so there may be more than that by the time you see this page for yourself!) An expansive collection of poetry that covers most every time period and genre.
Poets, Poetry, and Poetry Resources
An excellent page with all sorts of links to poetry on the web.
Representative Poetry On-line: Version 2.03
Collection of poetry from the 10th - 20th century, with an index that's searchable by date, poet name, title, or by first line.
Richard's Poetry Library
A nicely-indexed collection of all your favorites, from William Blake to William Wordsworth. Also has links to related web sites.
The Ultimate Poetry Links
The National Library of Poetry's comprehensive links page, with everything from booksellers to haikus. You'll probably also want to visit this domain's main page, Poetry.Com.
William Blake
Blake Digital Text Project
Read "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake," "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" on-line here!
Blake Online
Information on the William Blake mailing list. Find out how to subscribe or peruse the list archives here.
Quotations from William Blake
Food for thought. Also includes a good list of related links.
Selected Poetry of William Blake
Plenty of reading material, nicely indexed.
William Blake and the Origins of Postmodernity
From Marshall McLuhan Studies, this essay by Renato Barilli is worth a look!
The William Blake Archive Homepage
Although still under construction, this site has promise! Besides the archive itself, there's also a site-inclusive search engine to help you find the poem or image you're looking for, a section of bibliography and reference material, and some related links.
The William Blake Page
Features "Songs of Experience," "Songs of Innocence" and "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" with both texts and color plates. Also has a short bio and links.
T.S. Eliot
Bong's T.S. Eliot Page
Still under construction, but includes a recommended reading list, a biography or two, lots of texts to read, and other 'net info.
TSEbase
An on-line search engine of Eliot's poetry.
T.S. Eliot
Biography, bibliography, mailing list info, and links to other Eliot pages.
What The Thunder Said
Most comprehensive T.S. Eliot site on the 'net. Includes a timeline, poems, and resources.
John Keats
John Keats
Exhibition from the British Library's server. Includes texts, picture & sound files and more.
The Poetical Works Of John Keats
Very nicely indexed guide to his works. Includes a short bio & bibliography also.
Keats-Shelley Journal Home Page
Features subscription information and a list of on-line resources.
Sylvia Plath
Chip's Sylvia Plath Page
Many poems to read and links to related sites.
Cosmic Baseball Association
Odd page, but it has a nice bio.
RedFrog - Poems from the planet Earth - Sylvia Plath
A nice collection of poems to read.
Sylvia Plath
"Ariel," "Fever 103 deg." and "Poppies In October," on-line for your reading enjoyment.
Sylvia Plath
Short listing with a bio and photo.
Sylvia Plath
Features selected poems from "The Colossus" and "Ariel."
Sylvia Plath
Nice commentary on "The Bell Jar," biographical information, poetry, and links to related sites.
The Sylvia Plath Website
Has a bio, chronology of her life and work, a bibliography, and related links.
Sylvia Plath's Poetry Page
Features seven of Sylvia's most famous poems, including "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus."