Project Profile:

Representative Poetry Online (RPO)

Website: https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/

Description: Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 4,700 English poems by 723 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s. Its electronic founder and editor since 1994 is Ian Lancashire, who is a member of the Department of English, University of Toronto.

Contributors:

  • Ian Lancashire, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Toronto

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