The Chadwyck-Healey American Poetry Database
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About the American Poetry Database
Colonial Period, 1607-1766
Revolutionary Era, 1766-1799
Early Nineteenth Century, 1800-1829
Pre-Civil War Period, 1830-1860
The Civil War and Its Aftermath, 1861-1889
Late Nineteenth Century and Pre-Modernist Era, 1890-1914
Author-Title list for the entire American
Poetry Database (Caution: long file!)
From the publisher, Chadwyck-Healey
Introduction
Welcome to The American Poetry Full-Text Database. The works
of more than 200 American poets are featured in the collection, along with
six landmark anthologies of American poetry. The database gathers the works
of the most influential American poets, from the Colonial period to the
early twentieth century. A separate bibliography details all the works
included.
A few words on editorial policy
An eminent editorial advisory board selected the authors for inclusion
in
American Poetry. Its principal bibliographic source was
the
Bibliography of American Literature, Yale University Press,
1955-1991, with additional poets included in the interest of presenting
a more thorough and balanced collection. American Poetry
aims not to be absolutely comprehensive, but rather to gather as complete
a corpus as possible for major poets and for lesser-known writers of the
era. The database is intended to cover American poetry from its earliest
years through 1900, although a few poets primarily active after 1900 appear
in the collection. The general editorial policy has been to rely on complete
editions, where they are available, or to include editions published as
nearly contemporaneous with each poet's death as possible. If necessary,
multiple editions were incorporated in the interest of producing as complete
a corpus for each poet as possible.
Generally, translations, non-English works, and prose works containing
a small amount of dispersed poetry have been excluded. The emphasis of
the database is on the actual text of the poems rather than on textual
apparatus and front matter, which are generally excluded. A poet's own
notes, however, are generally included. When material from a work is omitted
for any of the above reasons, the omission is noted in the relevant bibliographic
entry.
Last modified:
June 27, 2005
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