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Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive
Digital Prize Winner 2018
The Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive — ECPA — is a peer-reviewed, award-winning digital archive and research project devoted to English-language poetry of the long eighteenth century. ECPA is open access, it builds on the electronic texts created by the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) from Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).
Key features
- browse authors by names, dates of birth, or gender;
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- use the built-in digital tools (reading, analysis, visualization, modelling) to augment the close reading process of individual poems;
- contribute and share textual notes and glosses, readings and interpretations, observations and suggestions, via easy-to-use forms (just click on any line or word);
- build on the collaborative potential in the classroom to increase student engagement with the texts;
- use the resources (including corpus tools, bibliography, chronology, gallery, etc.) for your further engagement with the field.
Recent additions
Daniel Defoe
(September 1660 - 24 April 1731)© National Portrait Gallery, London
Works in ECPA
- An ANSWER To The Tale of a Nettle. ()
- CALEDONIA, A POEM, &c. ()
- THE Double Welcome. A POEM To the Duke of MARLBOROUGH. ()
- THE Fifteen Comforts OF A Scotch-Man. ()
- THE SPANISH DESCENT. A POEM. ()
- The Vision, A POEM. Being an ANSWER to the Lord Beilhaven's SPEECH. ()
- [Ye true-born Englishmen proceed] ()
Source editions
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Ye true-born Englishmen proceed: Our trifling crimes detect, ... London: , 1701. 4p.; 4⁰. (ESTC T71763; Foxon Y10; OTA K060836.000)
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. The Spanish descent. A poem. By the author of The true-born Englishman. London: printed in the year, 1703. 16p.; 8⁰. (ESTC N23890; Foxon D152; OTA K013825.000)
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. The double welcome. A poem to the Duke of Marlbro'. London: printed, and sold by B. Bragg, 1705. [2],30p.; 4⁰. (ESTC T66300; Foxon D95; OTA K056945.000)
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. The vision, a poem: Being an answer to the Lord Beilhaven's speech. By a person of quality. [London]: Printed at Edinburgh; and reprinted at London for Benjamin Bragg, 1706. 4p.; 4⁰. (ESTC T6727; Foxon D188; OTA K023749.000)
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Caledonia: &c. A poem in honour of Scotland, and the Scots nation. In three parts. Edinburgh: printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, anno Dom., 1706. [10],60p.; 2⁰. (ESTC T55494; Foxon D90-91; OTA K049443.000)
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. The fifteen comforts of a Scotch-man. Written by Daniel D'Foe in Scotland. London: prinred [sic] in the year, 1707. 8p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T55493; Foxon D107; OTA K049442.000)
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. An answer to The tale of a nettle: Written by D. D'Foe. Oxford [i.e.London?]: printed in the year, 1710. 1 sheet; 1/2⁰. (ESTC N1651; Foxon D89; OTA K001048.000)
Bibliography
ODNB 7421
Manuscripts
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Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Vol. III, 1700-1800 . London: Mansell, 1986-1997. Pt. 1 Addison-Fielding. 331-336. Print. 4 volumes.
Reference works
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Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 93-96. Print.
Biography
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Backscheider, Paula R. Daniel Defoe: His Life. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989. Print.
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Richetti, John. The Life of Daniel Defoe. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Print.
Criticism
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Mueller, Andreas K. E. A Critical Study of Daniel Defoe's Verse: Recovering the Neglected Corpus of His Poetic Work. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. Print.
