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Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry

By J.R. de J. Jackson

Announcement

INVITATION. A year ago we announced the completion of our project to provide biographical headnotes for every one of the poets in this bibliography, over 5000 of them. In 2026 we invite users to explore the database with the help of two new tools: suggestions for searching that can be found at the end of the User Guide, and a list of 100 previously unknown poets that is available at the end of the Headnotes section in the Introduction. As a sample from that list, we suggest John AGG, Mary COCKLE, James Farquhar DENOVAN, Eliza Bland ERSKINE, Mary Kerr HART, Joseph JACKSON, Aeneas LAMONT, Mary Anne LLOYD, William RAY, and Nicholas TORRE. Use the Author tab to find the complete author entry (biography + list of works). To access the works themselves online in digital facsimiles, try Google Books, Hathi Trust, or specialist websites.

 

FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS. Besides resurrecting names completely unknown to literary history, working with primary resources now online has enabled us to make significant improvements to the biographies of better-known figures. We will regularly identify some of those entries. The current featured author: Janetta PHILIPPS.

 

We welcome enquiries and comments by way of the Contact tab. Technical issues should also be reported there. Be sure to include your email address.

 

 

This bibliography, which is based on first-hand examination of copies, aims to provide descriptions of all extant editions of all verse in English published for the first time between 1770 and 1835, amounting to approximately 23,000 volumes. The only significant restriction is that "volume" is defined as a book consisting of at least ten pages of original verse; thus the inclusion of anthologies of old and new poetry or of books that mix prose and verse depends on their containing at least ten pages of verse not published before 1770. Verse contained in works of prose fiction such as that of Ann Radcliffe is omitted unless collected as poetry in a separate publication. Following the practice of the British Library, annuals and gift books are excluded as a form of periodical. The bibliography is searchable in a number of ways: see the User Guide and Introduction for detailed explanations.