American Poetry (Parts I & II)
Published by Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.
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The University of Chicago Library American Poetry (Parts I & II) Published by Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. |
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Chadwyck-Healey Editorial Statement for American Poetry (Part I):
The bibliographic source for the American Poetry Full-Text Database was the
Bibliography of American Literature, Yale
University Press, 1995-1991, 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 less-known writers of the era. The database essentially
covers 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 as available or
otherwise to include editions published as nearly contemporaneously 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 if noted in the relevant bibliographic entry. Chadwyck-Healey Statements on American Poetry (Part II): Whereas the American Poetry Full-Text Database encompasses works from the Colonial Period to the early 1900's, Twentieth Century American Poetry proceeds with poetry from post-World War I to the present day. The broad coverage of Twentieth Century American Poetry includes collected works and individual volumes of poetry from all of the major movements and schools of 20th century American poetry. When available, a poet's collected edition has been licensed, and the most recent and complete version of each poem has been selected for inclusion. The first release of Twentieth Century American Poetry includes over 12,000 poems by over 100 poets. ETS has chosen to combine parts I and II of American Poetry to increase searching coverage. Users also able to limit a search to only one or the other of the databases under the titles American Poetry Full-Text Database (pre-1900) and Twentieth-Century American Poetry. The ability to limit a search by gender has also been added.
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The PhiloLogic implementation of American Poetry (Parts I & II) is based on automatic conversion of the SGML-encoded documents provided by Chadwyck-Healey. The database has 21.6 million words, 246,000 unique forms, in 1,362 works, listed in the online Bibliography. |
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