Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database
About the English Poetry Database
Table of Contents
Old English Poetry, 600-1100
Middle English Romances, Lyrics, and Ballads, 1100-1500
Fifteenth-Century Poetry, 1400-1500
Emblems, Epigrams, Formal Satires, Songbooks, 1500-1700
Tudor Poetry, 1500-1603
Jacobean and Caroline Poetry, 1603-1660
Restoration Poetry, 1660-1700
Eighteenth-Century Poetry, 1700-1800
Early Nineteenth-Century Poetry, 1800-1835
Mid Nineteenth-Century Poetry, 1835-1870
Late Nineteenth-Century Poetry, 1870-1900
About the Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database
(from the Publisher)
The English Poetry Database encompasses the works of 1,350 poets
from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the nineteenth century. It contains
a core collection of English verse, from more than 4,500 volumes.
English Poetry contains primarily the works of those writers
listed as poets by The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature,
Cambridge University Press, 1969-1972 (NCBEL). It includes those writers
whose main entry in NCBEL appears under another genre but who are cross-referenced
to Poetry. It also includes the few writers of poetry not cross-referenced
by NCBEL, for example, Emily Brontë and Aphra Behn. In addition, following
the NCBEL, the database contains the works in English of Welsh, Scottish
and Irish poets. Poets who were active before 1900 are included but poets
principally active in the twentieth century are excluded.
English Poetry aims to include as full a collection of the published
works of each poet as possible.
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Children's verse is included
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Translations into English verse before 1800 are included.
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Poetry written between 600 and 1900 but not published until after 1900
is included.
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Hymns published before 1800 only are included.
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Works in languages other than English are excluded.
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Verse dramas not intended for the stage are included.
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Poems never published or only published in contemporary newpapers, journals,
or miscellanies are excluded.
Last modified:
June 27, 2005
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