"What Price Poetry?" Pricing Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Longfellow in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Description This chart (with introduction) shows the pricing of Wordsworth’s, Tennyson’s and Longfellow’s poetry in the nineteenth century U.K. market: the frequency with which selections or collections of these poets’ works occur at certain prices over the period 1801-1905. An introductory section discusses aspects of the study of pricing of nineteenth-century poetry and outlines how poetry “represented a curiously diverse, uncertain, tricky area for British publishing.” (Note: This list is a complement to Prof. Eliot’s article, “’What Price Poetry?’ Pricing Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Longfellow in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain,” which appeared in the Dec. 2006 issue of Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (vol.100, #4)

AudiencesGraduates, Professionals, Scholars

Access TermsBooks--Prices, Publishing, England, Scotland

TagsBook Prices, Publishing, 19th-Century Literature