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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 the 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;
- browse works ( text versions) by titles, first lines, themes, or genres;
- search the poems' full-text and filter results by poetic form;
- view high-quality digital facsimiles of select source editions of the texts used by ECPA;
- 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);
- use the collaborative potential in the classroom to increase student engagement with the texts;
- consult the resources (bibliography, chronology, gallery, etc.) for your further engagement with the field.
Recent additions
Henry Carey
(c. 26 August 1687 - 5 October 1743)© National Portrait Gallery, London
Works in ECPA
- THE BEAU MONDE, OR THE Pleasures of St. JAMES'S. A BALLAD. ()
- BLUNDRELLA: OR, THE IMPERTINENT. A TALE. ()
- AN EPISTLE To the Right Honourable PHILIP, Earl of Chesterfield, &c. ()
- THE Grumbletonians; OR, THE DOGS without-Doors. ()
- Pretty SALLY's Garland. OR, Johnny's Kind Courtship. In Two PARTS. (); Sally of our Alley. ()
- Village Courtship. ()
Source editions
- Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743. The grumbletonians: or, the dogs without-doors. A tale. London: printed for J. Peele, 1727. 8p.; 2⁰. (ESTC T125553; OTA K100170.000)
- Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743. Blundrella: or, the impertinent. A tale. To which is added The beau monde, or, the pleasures of St. James's. A new ballad. ... The second edition. London: printed for A. Dodd and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1730. 12p.; 2⁰. (ESTC N15293; OTA K009637.000)
- Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743. Of stage tyrants. An epistle to the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield. Occasion'd by the Honest Yorkshire-man being rejected at Drury-Lane Play-house, and since acted at other theatres with universal applause. By Mr. Carey. London: printed for J. Shuckburgh, and L. Gilliver, J. Jackson, and J. Leake (Bath) And sold by A. Dodd, E. Nutt, and E. Cook, 1735. [2],8,[2]p.; 2⁰. (ESTC T42117; OTA K041283.000)
- Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743. Pretty Sally's garland: Or, Johnny's kind courtship. In two parts. [London]: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, 1760?. 1 sheet: ill.; obl.1/2⁰. (ESTC T192194; OTA K125362.000)
- Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743. Village courtship (Roger's courtship). [Salisbury]: Fowler, printer, Salisbury, 1785?. 1 sheet; 1/12⁰. (ESTC T50796; OTA K046542.000)
- Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743. Sally of our alley (Sally in our alley). [London]: Printed and sold by J Davenport, London, 1795?. 1 sheet; 1/4⁰. (ESTC T224811; OTA K131924.000)
Bibliography
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. 51-52. Print.
Thomas Holcroft
(10 December 1745 - 23 March 1809)© National Portrait Gallery, London
Works in ECPA
- ELEGY I. ON THE Death of S. FOOTE, Esq. ()
- ELEGY II. ON AGE. ()
- [HUMAN HAPPINESS; OR THE SCEPTIC. A POEM, IN SIX CANTOS.] ()
Source editions
- Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809. Elegies: I. On the death of Samuel Foote, Esq. II. On age. By Thomas Holcroft, ... London: printed for J. Bew, 1777. 24p.; 4⁰. (ESTC T107178; OTA K086061.000)
- Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809. Human happiness: or the sceptic. A poem, in six cantos. By Thomas Holcroft, ... London: printed for L. Davis; J. Robson; J. Johnson; J. Sewell; J. Fielding; and J. Stockdale, 1783. [4],76p.; 4⁰. (ESTC T107179; OTA K086062.000)