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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;
- 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);
- 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
Thomas Paine
(29 January 1737 - 8 June 1809)Works in ECPA
- Accidental Reconciliation From the Castle in the Air to the Little Corner of the World ()
- An Account of the Burning of Bachelor’s Hall ()
- Address to the Great ()
- Anniversary of American Independence July 4 Tune Rule Britannia ()
- The British Constitution ()
- By the Goddess of Plain Truth, A Manifesto and Proclamation ()
- Commentary on the Eastern Wise-Men Travelling to Bethlehem Guided by a Star to See the Little Jesus in a Manger ()
- Contentment, or, If You Please, Confession ()
- Critic and Snow-drop ()
- Curious Story, for the Pennsylvania Magazine ()
- Death of General Wolfe ()
- Give Me Kind Heaven The following lines were written at a tea-table, on the author being asked what kind of woman he should prefer. ()
- The Injur’d Ghost of Liberty ()
- Liberty Tree ()
- Lines, Extempore, by Thomas Paine, July 1803 ()
- The Monk and Jew. A Tale. ()
- The New Covenant From the Castle in the Air to the little Corner of the World. ()
- O What a Pity! ()
- On the Descent upon England, Written at the Desire of a Favourite ()
- Panegyrical Verses, on the Forty-Five Cliffites ()
- Retaliation ()
- The Strange Story of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, Numbers, Chapter XVI. Accounted For. ()
- To Columbia SONG To the Tune of the Anacreontic ()
- To Governor Johnstone ()
- To the King of England Wednesday, November 11th, 1778. ()
- Tommy Titmouse ()
- Untitled ()
- What Is Love? ()
Source editions
Bibliography
Editions
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Claeys, Gregory, gen. ed. Thomas Paine Collected Writings. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2026. Print. 6 Volumes. [Volume 2 contains Paine's complete poetry, ed. Scott M. Cleary.]
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Foner, Eric, ed. Thomas Paine: Collected Writings. The Library of America. New York, N.Y.: LOA, 1995. Print.
Biography
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Keane, John. Tom Paine: A Political Life. London: Bloomsbury, 2009 [1995]. Print.
Criticism
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Aldridge, A. Owen.
The Poetry of Thomas Paine
. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1955): 81-99. Print. -
Cleary, Scott M. The Field of Imagination: Thomas Paine and Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. Print.
