/ Home / Web Directory / Society / Folklore / Literature / Poetry   (12)

Sub-Categories in Poetry

Cowboy@ (12) Epic (6)

Limericks@ (24) Rhymes@ (61)

Web Sites in Category Poetry

Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England - Taken down from oral recitation and transcribed from private manuscripts, rare broadsides and scarce publications.

Are There Lines in Folk Poetry? - Article by B. Hayes and M. MacEachern discussing meters and stanza structures in English folk poetry.

Brazilian Folklore: Cordel Literature - Folk poetry of northeastern Brazil.

Drinking from the Well of Poetry - Nadia G. Yaqub's dissertation on tradition, composition, and identity in the oral Palestinian poetry duel (PDF format).

Looking North Of The Greek World: The Slavic Folk Poetry of The Balkans - Curriculum materials comparing ancient Greek and Slavic folk poetry.

Traditional Malay Verse - Pantun - Brief article on the Malay quatrain, which used to be an integral part of Malay life.

Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor