Poetry Links for Medieval Poets

For Level Two - Poet
Select a 12 - 16 line excerpt from some of the Medieval and early modern poets. You should browse some of the names below, and try to find a poet that is from your country in translation.


1. Find a poet from your country that is translated into English here:

If you are bold, try finding your own poet here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_poetry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medieval_women_poets


Or here is a list of well known Medieval poets by country with links to their poems:
Italy - Dante, Petrarch (use a poetry site from #2 below)
France - Raimbaut, A modern Rondeau
England - Chaucer or here, John Barbour, Thomas Dekker,
Germany -


2. Use these sites and search for poems by your selected poet from the list below:

poets.org http://www.poets.org
Poetry Foundation http://www.poetryfoundation.org
Poetry-Archive http://www.poetry-archive.com
Bartleby - verse http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
Poem Hunter http://www.poemhunter.com/
Poet Seer http://www.poetseers.org