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Welcome to WikiProject Poetry. To start exploring poetry on Wikipedia, visit the main poetry page. For information on creating poetry-related articles, please read on.

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to document information on national poetries, individual poets, poetry movements and groups and individual poets and on poetic forms, styles and techniques, and poetries example. All of these articles should be contained in the Category:Poetry or one of its subcategories.

See also:WikiProject Novels and WikiProject Songs.

[edit] Participants

Participants are welcome to add the WikiProject userbox to their talkpages. Simply add {{WPPoetryMember}}. It is recommended that participants add this project page to their watch list.

1. Daniel C. Boyer
2. Smerdis of Tlön
3. Kdammers
4. user:sjc
5. Wikipedius
6. WayneRay
7. Stumps
8. Sam
9. hmwith
10. Kyoko
11. Midnightdreary
12. Moonbug
13. John Carter
14. Wrad
15. *Rianon Burnet
16. William P. Coleman (talk) Modernism, Classical Chinese Poetry, Classical Greek Poetry
17. User:Thehumuslayer
18. User:ImperviusXR
19. --Survivalism (talk) 16:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
20. Kalindoscopy
21. Zorba the Geek (talk) especially Russian poetry
22. Vergency
23. Erik the Red 2 (AVE·CAESAR) 17:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
24. Ecoleetage
25. Albeiror24-Neopanida: Spanish literature and poetry.
26. Halcatalyst: English Romantics and Modern British and American poetry
27. --Evb-wiki (talk) 13:57, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
28. Smileypirate (talk) 15:06, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
29. mrathel (talk)

[edit] Structure

[edit] Templates

Please consider adding the following template at the top of article Talk pages. {{WPPoetry}}

[edit] National Poetries

Articles devoted to national poetries should be chronological in structure, beginning with the earliest known poetry from that country in question. The article should cover the principal periods and give brief information on the main poets, groups and movements in each period. Some attempt should be made to indicate factors that link and/or differentiate each period. Any important influences from other poetries should also be mentioned. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.

Some assistance may be available through WikiProject Historical Information.

Examples

Well-developed articles:

• Irish poetry
• Poetry of the United States

Other priorities:

• Indian poetry

[edit] Poetry Groups or Movements

Articles covering poetry groups or movements should cover the main members of the group, the stated aims or poetic and any important dates or key publications in the group's history. Other poets or groups/movements that the group being discussed were influenced by or reacting against should also be mentioned, as should the general cultural context. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.

Example

• Imagism

[edit] Individual Poets

Articles discussing individual poets should adhere to normal Wikipedia biography conventions. The poet's early influences, associations with any groups or movements, and main publications should be mentioned, along with any later poets, groups or movements they may have strongly influenced. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are advised where the intention is to push the article to featured status.

Examples

• William Shakespeare
• W. B. Yeats
• Emily Dickinson

[edit] Individual poems

If the poem in question is quite short, it should be added to the article, per WP:L&P. If it is a long poem, it should be linked, either from WikiSource, or from another website. The text of poems which are not copyrighted should in general be placed in WikiSource.

An article on an individual poem, besides the poem itself, should describe the publication history of the poem, and the critical response to the poem. Other matters that could be covered include: the circumstances in which the poem was written, the structure and style of the poem, and references made in the poem.

Examples

• The Waste Land
• Mr Bleaney
• In Memoriam A.H.H.
• The Cantos (and List of cultural references in The Cantos)

[edit] Styles/Forms/Techniques/Lists/General

Include definitions, history including dates, notable poets associated and examples where appropriate. Lists should be annotated and illustrated where appropriate. Where there are red links on a list, please consider writing stubs or longer entries. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.

Examples

• Poetry
• Alliterative verse
• List of poets
• List of cultural references in The Cantos

[edit] Poetry Prizes

• Forward Poetry Prize
• Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award
• Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize

[edit] Style

[edit] Scansion

Different systems of scansion are being documented in the article Systems of Scansion. The recommended style for marking scansion in Wikipedia articles in 'Ictus and x', that is with the symbols / for a stressed (accented) syllable, and x for an unstressed (unaccented) syllable. The advantages of this style is that the symbols are easily typed, cause no display problems in different browsers, and allow the older 'Macron and Breve' notation to still be used in referring to the quantity (length) of syllables, if so desired.

To ensure correct alignment of stress marks with syllables, the use of a table is recommended. Here is an example:

Example article:

• iambic pentameter

[edit] Current activities

• Poetry assessment drive: Please visit Category:Unassessed Poetry articles and assess as either Stub, Start, C, or B class and add importance of low, mid, or high.
• Ongoing activity: Add the WP:Poetry template to the talk pages of articles related to poets, poems, and poetry collections to affiliate them with this project.

Please nominate current activities on the talk page.

[edit] Articles

Poetry articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	5	5	8	5		23
	GA	2	3	9	12	1	27
	B	8	34	60	14	5	121
	Start	3	40	227	424	47	741
	Stub		2	89	592	103	786
	List	1	2	4	23	5	35
	Assessed	19	86	397	1070	161	1733
	Unassessed	2	2	5	4	23	36
	Total	21	88	402	1074	184	1769

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

Anna Laetitia Barbauld • Samuel Beckett • Cædmon • Stephen Crane • H.D. • Emily Dickinson • Rufus Wilmot Griswold • Imagism • James Joyce • Rudyard Kipling • James Russell Lowell • Modernist poetry in English • Philitas of Cos • Edgar Allan Poe • Poetry • Proserpine • "The Raven" • William Shakespeare • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight • "Ulysses" • Nathaniel Parker Willis • William Butler Yeats

[edit] Good articles

The Absent-Minded Beggar • Agrippa (a book of the dead) • W. H. Auden • Matsuo Bashō • Jorge Luis Borges • The Botanic Garden • Lev Chernyi • Thomas Holley Chivers • Elizabeth F. Ellet • Eureka: A Prose Poem • Green Knight • Kigo • Joyce Kilmer • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Mahābhārata • Midas • "Mounseer Nongtongpaw" • Dorothy Parker • Harold Pinter • William Henry Leonard Poe • "In Praise of Limestone" • Patti Smith • Sonnet 18 • Tristan Tzara • Jones Very • Walt Whitman • Y Gododdin

[edit] Did You Know (DYK)s

Arthur Brooke (September 28, 2006) • Nuyorican Poets Café (January 17, 2007) • The Unsex'd Females (March 11, 2007) • Lucretia Maria Davidson (May 27, 2007) • Nazik Al-Malaika (June 25, 2007) • Thomas Holley Chivers (August 18, 2007) • "Darkness" (August 19, 2007) • "In Praise of Limestone" (August 27, 2007) • "The Lady of the Lake" (October 1, 2007) • Elizabeth F. Ellet (October 19, 2007) • Eureka: A Prose Poem (November 18, 2007) • "A Description of a City Shower" (March 15, 2008) • William Henry Leonard Poe (May 18, 2008) • Edward Coote Pinkney (May 26, 2008) • Christopher Smart (June 13, 2008) • The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (June 16, 2008) • "The Village Blacksmith" (June 23, 2008) • George Pope Morris (July 12, 2008) • Epes Sargent (July 13, 2008) • The Vanity of Human Wishes (August 15, 2008) • Edwin Thumboo (August 20, 2008) • A Fable for Critics (August 21, 2008} • "The Maid of Orleans" (August 29, 2008) • Salut d'amor (September 3, 2008) • Dante da Maiano (September 8, 2008) • František Gellner (September 9, 2008) • David Wagoner (September 12, 2008) • Andrieu Contredit d'Arras(October 4, 2008) • "Hay and Hell and Booligal" (October 9, 2008) • John Audelay (October 13, 2008) • "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (October 15, 2008) • Songs of Fredman (October 19, 2008) • "Lucy Gray" (November 14, 2008) • Matthew (poems) (November 14, 2008)

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

• Alliterative verse
• The Cantos
• Objectivist poets
• Poetry of the United States

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Templates

What to type:	What it makes:	What it's for
{{WPPoetry}}	Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry is part of WikiProject Poetry, a WikiProject related to Poetry. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.	The notice or template to indicate an article is part of the project. Place on talk pages.
{{Poetry portal}}	Poetry portal	Provides a link to the Poetry portal for easy subject navigation. To be placed at the top of "see also"/"related topics" sections only.
{{WPPoetryMember}}	This user is a member of Wikiproject Poetry.	Userbox for members of the project, for display on user pages.
{{User:Scepia/poetry}}	This user enjoys reading poetry.	Userbox for readers of poetry, not necessarily members of the project.
{{poetry-stub}}	This poetry-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	The stub template for general poetry articles.
{{poem-stub}}	This article related to a poem is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	The stub template for articles on individual poems.
{{poet-stub}}	This article about a poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	The stub template for articles on individual poets.