Using the Periodical Poetry Index
Users can access entries by searching or browsing:
- author name
- author pseudonym
- poem title
- periodical title
- volume, issue, date
- author gender (if known)
- illustration
- selected textual features
Citations are formatted in the following structure:
Author Last Name, Author First Name. “Poem Title.” Periodical Title Volume.Issue (Date): Pages.
The item detail view includes additional information about poem features and links to display other poems by the author, other poems within the periodical volume, and the full volume in Hathi Trust.
The Periodical Poetry Index will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century periodicals and poetry. The Index could be useful for researching and/or teaching:
- publication trends for poems across a specific period or periodical
- publication practices by author and/or pseudonym
- trends in re-publication of poems across periodicals
- gendered publication patterns over time or within specific periodicals
