In addition to the lack of representation in the literary canon, there is also a lack of availability when it comes to accessing electronic texts of British women poets from the Romantic period. This became a challenge both in focusing this essay and then building a corpus. Feldman’s anthology features sixty-two poets. Building a corpus with a decent representation of each poet is too time-consuming for this project, especially as the anthology is not available in an electronic format. The British Women Romantic Poets Archive, an electronic collection of texts from the University of California, Davis is currently being transitioned to a new home and is unavailable. One thought was to choose the top ten most prolific/popular of the women poets from the anthology and work to build a corpus which could be analyzed for comparisons and contrasts in areas such as subject matter and vocabulary. This was problematic because some of the women only had a limited amount of their texts available online and creating an equal representation of each woman proved too difficult. In reading some of the women’s work, war poems stood out as one subject common among many of them. A corpus was then built in the following manner.
The list of poems, the authors, and dates written/published can be downloaded below.
The remainder of this essay will focus on how digital tools can both enhance the research and provide new areas of study.
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