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DiYanni:Literature
Literature, 5/e
Robert DiYanni

A COLLECTION OF POEMS

Web Links

These exercises are designed to give you practice in finding useful information online. First read the prompt; then begin your search at Google. If you find yourself at a loss, click on the question and you'll be taken to a matching site.


Can you find a discussion of the Shakespearean authorship mystery on a PBS website?
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/)

Can you find a picture of John Donne online?
(http://www2.wku.edu/~vanzekm/)

Can you find a website that will help you generate a curse in the style of Ben Jonson?
(http://www.tower.org/insult/insult.html)

Can you find at least one entire poem by Anne Bradstreet in etext?
(http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/indexauthors.html#B)

Can you find a slide show of plates from William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experi...
(http://virtual.park.uga.edu/wblake/home1.html)

Can you find The Complete Poetical Works by William Wordsworth online?
(http://www.bartleby.com/people/WordswthW.html)

Can you find photos of Thomas Hardy's Wessex on the internet?
(http://home.att.net/~bwmartin/Hardy_Home.htm)

Can you find a website that shows you what Walt Whitman's handwriting looks like?
(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwcoll.html)

Can you find a William Butler Yeats Society page from Ireland?
(http://www.yeats-sligo.com/)

Can you find an online Ezra Pound site?
(http://www.uno.edu/~inst/brunnen/brunenpo.html)

Can you find a recording of Wallace Stevens reading one of his poems on the web?
(http://www.wesleyan.edu/wstevens/stevens.html)

Can you find a page where you can download a video of a William Carlos Williams poem?
(http://www.learner.org/catalog/literature/vvseries/vvspot/Williams.html)

Can you find some Marianne Moore poems in etext?
(http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=97)

Can you find a brief bio of Archibald MacLeish on the internet?
(http://www.rothpoem.com/duk_am.html)

Can you find a page where you can hear an E. E. Cummings poem read?
(http://www.poets.org/poems/Poems.cfm?prmID=1186)

Can you find a web page where you can download a video of an Elizabeth Bishop poem?
(http://www.learner.org/catalog/literature/vvseries/vvspot/Bishop.html)

Can you find Gwendolyn Brooks reading her poem "We Real Cool"?
(http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/gbrookst.htm)

Can you find a photo of Lucille Clifton online?
(http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/clifton/clifton.htm)

Can you find a Seamus Heaney poem that's not in your text online?
(http://www.poems.com/85annhea.htm)

Can you find Robert Hass's poem "Meditation at Lagunitas" in RealAudio?
(http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/87_88/hass1.html)

Can you find an MPEG movie about Rita Dove's online project "Lady Freedom Among Us"?
(http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/fourmill/4millbook.html)