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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry explores the poetry most
read in the long Victorian period: poems published in periodicals, magazines, and
newspapers. Our collection currently contains 19383 poems dating from
1817 to 1901. Here are some subcollections you might want to explore.
Complete listing of poets whose assigned gender is female.
A selection of queer poems.
A curated list of poetry from Scotland.
Complete listing of illustrators whose assigned gender is female.
Sonnets which constitute, or form part of, sequences.
Poets who have published the largest number of poems.
Poems with illustrations that feature fairies.
Poems with illustrations that feature people reading.
Love, Loss, and Companionship in Victorian
Dog Poetics.
Poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Poems with decorative historiated initial letters.