Finding English Verse, 1650-1800: First-Line Indexes & Searchable Electronic Texts

2004
English
Text
James Woolley
This checklist itemizes first-line indexes with at least 1000 lines, excluding single-author indexes, which are normally included in critical editions. It includes separate listings of indexes to manuscript verse and printed verse, respectively, a short introductory essay discussing the significance of first-line indexes “for a period when verse circulated anonymously,” and tips on searching an electronic index. (Originally posted in HTML version, updated in PDF format beginning in 2006.)
1650 – 1800
Graduates, Professionals, Scholars
Poetry, Indexes, United Kingdom, North and Central America
England, Poetry, Indexes, Verse, Song, Americas, United Kingdom
James Woolley (created by)
James Woolley, “Finding English Verse, 1650-1800: First-Line Indexes & Searchable Electronic Texts,” 2004 (HTML version), 2006 (PDF version); updates: 2004 (2), 2005 (2), 2006 (1), 2010 (2). BibSite, Bibliographical Society of America.
<https://bibsite.org/Detail/objects/18>.
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