Poetry & Poets, Q-T

This page has links for specific poets. Lesson plans and activities related to specific poetry forms or poetic structure can be found on the Poetry Forms page. Poetry no longer under copyright can be found on the Poetry Collections page. Copyright restrictions may prevent contemporary poetry from being available online.

|A B C D| |E F G H| |I J K L| |M N O P| |Q R S T| |U V W X Y Z|

Apply WD-40
Critical commentary on "The Northeast Corridor," links to "Against Pluralism," and "To the Destroyers of Ballots" by Donald Revell.

Alberto Ríos
Biography, links to criticism and to the text of 5 poems.

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Resources for teaching "Richard Cory," "Miniver Cheevy," and other poems.

Theodore Roethke
Lesson plans and links for "My Papa's Waltz" and other poems.

Christina Rossetti: An Overview
Biography, e-texts, criticism and commentary.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Overview
Biography, e-texts, criticism and commentary.

The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Links to texts and criticism. This online archive is part of a series from the University of Virginia.

Rossetti Archive
An extensive collection of poetry, prose, and art.

Kay Ryan: Online Resources
A list of links to resources on Kay Ryan throughout the Library of Congress Web site and elsewhere on the Web.

Kay Ryan Opens the 2008 Literary Season
Kay Ryan reads her poetry during this 53-minute vidcast.

Return to top.

Sandburg, Carl. 1918. Cornhuskers
Selected poems at Bartleby.com.

Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive
By first examining primary photographs, maps, and other documents that depict Chicago at the turn of the century, students will anticipate Sandburg's description of and attitudes towards the city. They will then read a short biography of the poet to make further predictions about the poem. Finally students will read the poem and identify the ways in which Sandburg uses literary techniques such as personification and apostrophe to make vivid the Chicago he knew. At the end of the lesson, students will bring all these strands together by using "Chicago" as a model for writing original pieces about places that are important to them.

"Base Details" by Siegfried Sassoon
Click on "Launch Lesson" to listen to the poem and to read analysis of theme and imagery. "Points to Ponder" offers reflective writing prompts.

The Academy of American Poets — Anne Sexton
Biography, e-texts, related links.

"Ozymandias" by Percey Bysshe Shelley
Audio file and text of the poem.

Reading Guide: Stevie Smith
Critical commentary on "Not Waving but Drowning," links to other poems.

Gary Soto
Ideas for teaching poetry and prose.

Sonnet 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand")by Edmund Spenser
Access to this audio file requires an MP3 player such as QuickTime.

Selected William Stafford Poetry
Text of 30 poems.

Wallace Stevens, "The Snow Man"
In this NPR audio link, commentator Jay Keyser discusses the structure of the poem and its relationship to meaning.

Repeat After Us
Audio files and texts of three Wallace Stevens poems: "A Postcard from the Volcano," "The House was Quiet and the World was Calm," and "The Snow Man." A good site for LD students, ELL students, and for those who read well and might like to record and contribute. Files are in alphabetical order by poet; scroll down.

Mark Strand
Biography, links to poems and interviews.

"Lines for Winter" by Mark Strand
Video of the poem, analysis, teaching tips, and related poems.

Paper Cuts
Critical commentary on "Bleeding" by May Swenson, links to other poems.

Return to top.

Rabindranath Tagore, Winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature
Scroll down to links added by visitors to the site, including biography, poetry, and commentary.

Rabindranath Tagore
Representative poetry.

Rabindranath Tagore
Brief biography.

The Poems of Edward Taylor
15 poems, including "Huswifery."

Poems by Sara Teasdale
Links to texts of poems.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Lesson plans, criticism, and teaching ideas for "The Lady of Shalott" and other poems.

One Hit Wonder
A blog entry with supporting links on "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Thayer.

Dylan Thomas
Lesson plans for prose and poetry.

Edward Thomas
Brief biography of this WWI poet and links to poetry.

Chidiock Tichborne: "Tichborne's Elegy"
Background, analysis, and suggestions for responding to the poem.

Return to top.