Representative Poetry Online includes over 3,000 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s.
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Poet's Corner is a free resource collection with activities and information to complement classroom topics. Within this site, teachers and students can: read biographies of well-received poets, take a quiz, follow a timeline of events that traces the poetry movement, partake in activities, and discover the poems and the concepts behind them.
