Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

What’s new in this edition of the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project

• Poem index: over 3,000 new poems have been indexed, with attribution, poem notes, and metadata, from 7 new periodicals: Argosy, Longman’s, Temple Bar, Poor Man’s Guardian, English Illustrated Magazine, Evergreen, and Pagan Review. (For Temple Bar, attribution from publisher’s archive still ongoing.)
• Attributions and Corrections: many updates have been made to earlier poems and person records published in the index.
• Personography: over 800 new person records have been added.
• Transcribed poems: over 500 new poems have been transcribed and encoded.
• Genre tags: genre tags for several types of sonnet have been added, and these are now available as filters on the Search for poems page. There is also a sonnet form taxonomy, including index pages for different kinds of sonnets.
• The following new subcollections have been added (linked from the home page): Sonnet Sequences, Scottish Poetry, and Dogs.
• Abbreviations: A list of abbreviations for commonly-used sources has been added.