Anne Bradstreet
Very useful resources and links (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Selected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
(Representative Poetry Online)
Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
resource for poetry, biography and sources (Ellen Moody)
British Women Romantic Poets
An “online scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women” written between 1789 and 1832 (University of California Davis)
English Poetry 1579-1830
a ‘largely full-text database’, of over 10,000 poems, following the influence of Spenser on English poetry down to the 19th century, the archive ‘presents poets as readers — imitators and emulators, critics and biographers — engaged with literary traditions that were complex, dynamic, and embedded in social networks’ (David Radcliffe)
Four seventeenth-century women poets
A student project, focusing on Margaret Cavendish, Aemilia Lanyer, Katherine Philips and Lady Mary Wroth, providing bibliographies, biographies and texts for each poet, plus web links and a bibliography of anthologies (Ron Cooley and students)
Isabella Whitney bibliography
Collection of resources about the poet Isabella Whitney (Natalie Bennett)
Parrots, poets and philosophers: language and empire in the eighteenth century (PDF)
article by John Gilmore, examining references to parrots in eighteenth-century poetry, as exotic ornaments that confer status on their owners, in a process of ‘imitation, translation and cultural transfer’ (Brunel University)
From EnterText, 2.2 (2003)
Index of Poetry in Printed Miscellanies, 1640-1682
a database of the poetry in first editions of printed miscellanies published in England between 1640 and 1682, cataloguing 4,639 poems in total; browse by first line, or can be search for keywords (Adam Smyth)
Representative Poetry Online
Poems from a wide range of authors, with a substantial early modern showing (Ian Lancashire, Marc Plamondon)
Seventeenth-century women poets
Bibliographies and biographical and text resources (Susanne Webel)
Sonnet Central
A resource for English sonnets, with sections on early sonnets, Elizabethan, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century and the Romantic period. Includes texts (modernised), commentaries and web links (Eric Blomquist)
The William Blake Archive
a site providing high-quality electronic editions of Blake’s work, which aims to incorporate as much of both his pictorial and literary works as possible, to “give scholars and students access to the major intersections between the illuminated books and Blake’s other creative and commercial works” (Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities)
