Medieval Texts & Styles

Beowulf on Steorarume (Beowulf in Cyberspace): A new critical electronic edition of the text based upon an examination of the original MS http://www.heorot.dk/

Cantar de Mio Cid (The Song of El Cid): An interactive site that has the poem in HTML, Realaudio clips, high-resolution manuscript scans, and an interactive Flash version with translations of the text http://www.laits.utexas.edu/cid/main/siteindex.php?v=nor#

The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Unfortunately, without translations ftp://ftp.std.com/obi/Anglo-Saxon/aspr/contents.html

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University: Extremely high-resolution scans of numerous medieval manuscripts http://image.ox.ac.uk/list?collection=all

Gwarnant: y Beirdd i'r Oesoedd Canol (The Medieval Welsh Poets) http://www.webexcel.ndirect.co.uk/gwarnant/

Medieval Irish Poetry http://www.dnaco.net/~mobrien/irishptr/

The Middle English Collection at the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia: A fabulous selection of texts, but without translations http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/mideng.browse.html

Norse and Finnish Poetry: From the Viking Answer Lady website http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/meters.htm

Old English at the University of Calgary : Online texts, grammar, and related lessons http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/

Old English at the University of Virgina: Some texts and grammar/pronunciation exercises http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/index.html

The Online Medieval and Classical Library: The OMACL contains some of the most important literary works of classical and Medieval civilization http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/

Pre-1650 Books in the Online Books Page List: A collection of HTML and PDF texts http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/onlinebooks/

Sonetos del Siglo de Oro (Golden Age Spanish Sonnets): A site dedicated to providing good verse translations of Golden Age Spanish sonnets to English-speaking readers http://sonnets.spanish.sbc.edu/

TEAMS Middle English Texts: The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages website hosts a number of Middle English texts that may not be readily available in student texts but possess a literary and cultural importance http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm

Textes et Musiques du Moyen Age (Texts and Music of the Middle Ages): A French site with a number of troubadour, trouvere, and trobador lyrics and melodies. http://brassy.club.fr/PartMed/Partmed.html

Troubadour Lyrics: Selected troubadour texts and translations http://www.auburn.edu/~bertocr/Table.html

Troubadour Texts: A number of troubadour song lyrics, some with translations http://www.trobar.org/troubadours

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Other Kingdom Bardic Sites:

AEthelmearc http://www.aebards.org/

Ansteorra http://bardicfire.u4l.com/

Ealdormere http://bards.ca/index1.htm

Meridies http://www.randomwerks.com/meridian_bardic/

Northshield http://www.minstrel.com/ncb/

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Other Poetry Sites

The Academy of American Poets  http://www.poets.org/

Favorite Poem Project:  Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, is sponsoring a program that promotes poetry as a spoken art and proves that poetry is an art alive and well in the U.S. The Project encourages live poetry reading events in communities across the country, which would create a database of thousands of letters from Americans about their favorite poems, and would produce a series of short audio and video documentaries that capture American voices, faces and choices and represent people from many states and with varying regional accents, ages, professions, kinds of education and backgrounds as they recite their favorite poems. If you are interested in participating in the project check out http://www.favoritepoem.org/index.html

Folgers Library Poetry series (readings by modern poets at Folgers Elizabethan Theater)  http://www.folger.edu/public/poetry/menu.htm

Poetry & Literature Center of the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/poetry/
As a unit of the Library of Congress, the Center functions within the Library's Office of Scholarly Programs. Today, the Poetry and Literature Center is the home of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. In addition to supporting the Poet Laureate's activities and interests, the Center sponsors an annual series of public poetry and fiction readings, lectures, symposia, occasional dramatic performances, and other literary events.

Poetry Society of America http://poetrysociety.org/

Resources for Poets: Poetry at Writers Write http://www.writerswrite.com/poetry/rpoets.htm

University of Pennsylvania Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (but has good links) http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html

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Non-Electronic Resources

The books and other materials listed below are listed as a service to those interested in writing, researching and critical analysis of poetry and period poetry. The listing of a particular vendor herein is not an implied or actual endorsment of them or their products or business practices. These vendors have no relationship to the The Atlantian Poetry Page, the Kingdom of Atlantia or the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.

• Cuddon,  J. A. and Claire Preston. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. 4th ed. New York: Penguin, 2000. ISBN 0140513639.

• Goldin, Frederick, ed. German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages: Original Texts, with Translations and Introductions. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1973. ISBN 0385046170.

• Hollander, John. Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse. 3rd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale, 2001. ISBN 0300088329.

• McGee, Timothy, et al. Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Indianapolis: Indiana U Press, 1996. ISBN 0253210267.

• Reiss, Edmund. The Art of the Middle English Lyric: Essays in Criticism. Athens, GA: U Georgia Press, 1972. ISBN 0820302791.

• Rivers, Isabel. Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1992. ISBN 0415106478.

• Rosenberg, Samuel et al. Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres: An Anthology of Poems and Melodies. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0815313411.

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