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).

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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

Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)

(9 July 1764 - 7 February 1823)

Works in ECPA

AIR. [Now, at Moonlight's fairy hour] ()
THE BUTTER-FLY TO HIS LOVE. ()
THE FIRST HOUR OF MORNING. ()
THE GLOW-WORM. ()
THE MARINER. ()
MORNING, ON THE SEA-SHORE. ()
NIGHT. ()
NIGHT. ()
THE PIEDMONTESE. ()
THE PILGRIM. ()
RONDEAU. [Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps] ()
THE SEA-NYMPH. ()
SHIPWRECK. ()
SONG OF A SPIRIT. ()
SONG OF THE EVENING HOUR. ()
SONG. [Life's a varied, bright illusion] ()
SONG. [The rose that weeps with morning dew] ()
SONNET, TO THE LILLY. ()
SONNET. [How sweet is Love's first gentle sway] ()
SONNET. [Morn's beaming eyes at length unclose] ()
SONNET. [Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve] ()
STANZAS. [How smooth that lake expands its ample breast!] ()
STANZAS. [O'er Ilion's plains, where once the warrior bled] ()
STORIED SONNET. ()
SUN-RISE: A SONNET. ()
SUN-SET. ()
TITANIA TO HER LOVE. ()
TO A SEA-NYMPH. ()
TO AUTUMN. ()
TO MELANCHOLY. ()
TO THE BAT. ()
TO THE NIGHTINGALE. ()
TO THE VISIONS OF FANCY. ()
TO THE WINDS. ()

Source editions

Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95]

Bibliography

ODNB 22974

Reference works

Day, Gary, and Jack Lynch, gen. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. 3 Vols. Vol. III, 975-977. Print.
Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 262-264. Print.

Criticism

Arnold, Ellen. Deconstructing the patriarchal palace: Ann Radcliffe's poetry in The Mysteries of Udolpho. Women and Language (1996): 21–29. Print.
Battaglia, Beatrice. Poesia e romance in The Mysteries of Udolpho di Ann Radcliffe. Le poetesse romantiche inglesi: tra identità e genere, ed. Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Cecilia Pietropoli. Rome: Carocci, 2002. 165–179. Print.
Carboni, Pierre. 'A romance interspersed with pieces of poetry': la citation poétique et les marges sublimes du discours dans les romans d'Ann Radcliffe. EREA 2(1) (2004): 47–53. Print.
Stabler, Jane. Ann Radcliffe's poetry: the poetics of refrain and inventory. Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the gothic, ed. Dale Townshend and Angela Wright. Cambridge: CUP, 2014. 185–202. Print.

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