The Chadwyck-Healey
American Poetry Database Table of Contents by Time Period
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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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