Representative Poetry Online

Representative Poetry Online is a database of poetry maintained by the University of Toronto (UofT). RPO was founded in 1994 by Ian Lancashire of the UofT's Department of English. The current version, Representative Poetry Online version 3.0, contains over 4,000 poems by over 600 poets.

Representative Poetry
The site had its genesis in the printed poetry anthology Representative Poetry (1912), edited by F.J. Alexander (the first professor of English at the UofT's University College) and his assistant, William Hall Clawson.

A third edition came out in 1962-63, and was reprinted with corrections in 1967.