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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 16030 poems dating from 1817 to 1901. Here are some subcollections you might want to explore.
Women Poets
Complete listing of poets whose assigned gender is female.
Queer Poetry
A selection of queer poems.
Historiated Initials
Poems with decorative historiated initial letters.
Women Illustrators
Complete listing of illustrators whose assigned gender is female.
Fairies
Poems with illustrations that feature fairies.
Prolific Poets
Poets who have published the largest number of poems.
Animals
Poems with illustrations that feature animals.
Tennyson
Poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Reading
Poems with illustrations that feature people reading.
Scottish Poets
Complete listing of poets from Scotland.