Poems Online goes live

I've just launched a new website: http://poemsonline.org/

I had this idea more than a year ago, and decided to mark up some of Project Gutenberg's poetry to put on the web. So I've had this XML markup lying around for ages, and thought it was about time I did something with it. I've crufted together some Perl to turn the XML files with the poems in into webpages, with suitable index pages for each author, and indexes of authors and poems. It doesn't look very pretty yet, but the basic structure is there.

So far the site has got: a whole load of Lewis Carroll's poetry (including the infamous Jabberwocky), the poems from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling (including one I remember doing at school, A Smugglers' Song, about Smugglers in Dymchurch, near where I grew up) and a whole load of crass royalist poems from the English civil war period.

I'm still not quite sure why I'm doing this, but I like poetry, and it'll be an interesting experiment. Let's see what Google makes of it.

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