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Poets, poems, biographical information and references to print and other online collections. Interesting features include American Folk Songs and Spirituals, a subject index and a chronological index. A mega-poetry site!From The Other Pages, the Poets’ Corner’s goal is “to create the largest, most diverse, and most user-friendly public library of poetic works ever assembled. The materials on display are selected from an inventory of thousands of works by hundreds of authors, transcribed and gathered here by the Editors and by many volunteer contributors from around the world. There are many works here, both obscure and familiar, from well and lesser known poets. Works range from medieval ballads in middle English to traditional ballads, popular songs of centuries past, and interpretations of American Indian chants.The poems on display range from lone quatrains to entire books, with a large selection of sonnets, narrative poems, and topical works to choose from. The site itself is named for the corner of Westminster Abbey which serves as both resting place and memorial for many of England’s great poets, though the works in the collection span the English-speaking world.If you are looking for something in particular, you can generally find it through one of the sets of index files. The Author and Title indices include all the Poets featured in the collection, and all of their included works. You can also check out What’s New for recent additions. For the casual visitor, there is a Quick Sampler of selected shorter works. If you’re looking for more substantial reading, there’s a guide to Longer Works. And. as a more dynamic offering, Bob provides a Daily Poetry Break, with a new selection every weekday.While we are restricted to using materials past copyright, or those we have explicit permission to use, there is also an index of Suggestions for Further Reading for further reading, which lists many excellent modern poems suggested by our editors and contributors, as well as a growing index of published books of poems, listed by author. ”