Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry

The purpose of this collection is to extend our knowledge and understanding both of English poetry published during the critical time period 1770-1835 and of the lives of men and women authors—many of whom are otherwise now unknown to literary history. The collection comprises two linked sets of data. The core is a bibliography of all poetry first published in English from 1770 to 1835, including verse translations from other languages. The bibliography is unique in its scope: it includes books published anywhere in the world and the only restriction is that the verse must equal at least ten pages of the recorded books. Full bibliographical descriptions of the nearly 23000 books are based on a known copy and the holding library or online resource is identified. Where a book is known only from contemporary reviews, these are identified. The bibliography is linked to a second data set of biographical notices for each of the over 5000 named poets. The biographical data was developed from resources including national biographies (Dictionary of Canadian Biography, ODNB, and others), contemporary memoirs and biographies, newspaper records, and genealogical sites.