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Visit the more focused sections on American Verse, English Poetry and Spanish and Latin-American Literature. This page is a part of a much larger website -- "Treasures of the Internet" -- that includes other major sections, including the links shown on the left. If this is your first visit, please read "navigating this site", for further guidance. 
Even if you have a book at hand, what is unsatisfactory about printed anthologies sometimes is that the content is very much dependent on the "mood of a period" or the preferences of the editor. Also, books of prose and poetry (especially those used in humanities classes in high school or college) focus too much on what is deemed as "good poetry". The need for comprehensivity and space limitations prevent a deeper exploration and appreciation of specific poets. In contrast to the limitations of "printed literature", the internet can be very effective in organizing and presenting almost all information about a poet and his(her) poems -- a feat quite difficult to achieve by any "printed text form" without becoming very bulky. The "details" integrated from such internet compilations -- about the work and the context in which it was writtten as well as about the author him(her)self -- humanize a poem. In many instances, other poets and writers influenced the works of a poet. Thus, reading other contemporary writers or known figures of a period may provide further insights on a poet's writings. All these can be done and presented more easily and effectively in well-organized internet literature archives. As important, the internet visitor can have complete control on the depth of his(her) exploration into these internet literature archives. The value of online literature sources in relation to less-developed countries and how this may have ramifications even to the more developed countries (MDCs) is explored in the |
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First Written: 19990104 Latest Update: 20060328 |