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);
- 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
John Dennis
(16 September 1658 -
6 January 1734)
Works in
ECPA
- Dennis, John, 1657-1734.
The monument: a poem sacred to the immortal memory of the best and greatest of kings,
William the Third. ... By Mr. Dennis.
London: printed for D. Brown, and A. Bell, 1702. xii,48p.; 4?.
(ESTC
T135780
;
Foxon D224;
OTA
K107395.000
)
- Dennis, John, 1657-1734.
Britannia triumphans: or the Empire sav'd: and Europe deliver'd. By the success of
her Majesty's forces under the wise and heroick conduct of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough.
A poem, by Mr. Dennis.
London: printed for J. Nutt, 1704. [16],72p.; 8?.
(ESTC
T29691
;
Foxon D222;
OTA
K033915.000
)
- Dennis, John, 1657-1734.
The battle of Ramillia: or, the power of union. A poem. In five books. By Mr. Dennis.
London: printed for Ben. Bragg, 1706. [26],132p.; 8?.
(ESTC
T135406
;
Foxon D221;
OTA
K107134.000
)
- Dennis, John, 1657-1734.
A poem upon the death of her late sacred majesty Queen Anne, and the most happy and
most auspicious accession of his sacred majesty King George. To the imperial crowns
of Great Britain, France and Ireland. ... By Mr. Dennis.
London: printed by H. Meere, and sold by J. Baker, 1714. 30p.; 8?.
(ESTC
T42571
;
Foxon D226;
OTA
K041537.000
)
Source editions
- Dennis, John, 1657-1734.
The monument: a poem sacred to the immortal memory of the best and greatest of kings,
William the Third. ... By Mr. Dennis.
London: printed for D. Brown, and A. Bell, 1702. xii,48p.; 4?.
(ESTC
T135780
;
Foxon D224;
OTA
K107395.000
)
- Dennis, John, 1657-1734.
Britannia triumphans: or the Empire sav'd: and Europe deliver'd. By the success of
her Majesty's forces under the wise and heroick conduct of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough.
A poem, by Mr. Dennis.
London: printed for J. Nutt, 1704. [16],72p.; 8?.
(ESTC
T29691
;
Foxon D222;
OTA
K033915.000
)
- Dennis, John, 1657-1734.
The battle of Ramillia: or, the power of union. A poem. In five books. By Mr. Dennis.
London: printed for Ben. Bragg, 1706. [26],132p.; 8?.
(ESTC
T135406
;
Foxon D221;
OTA
K107134.000
)
- Dennis, John, 1657-1734.
A poem upon the death of her late sacred majesty Queen Anne, and the most happy and
most auspicious accession of his sacred majesty King George. To the imperial crowns
of Great Britain, France and Ireland. ... By Mr. Dennis.
London: printed by H. Meere, and sold by J. Baker, 1714. 30p.; 8?.
(ESTC
T42571
;
Foxon D226;
OTA
K041537.000
)
Bibliography
ODNB
7503
Manuscripts
-
Smith, Margaret M.
Index of English Literary Manuscripts
. Vol. III, 1700-1800 .
London
:
Mansell
,
1986-1997
. Pt. 1 Addison-Fielding. 337-339. Print. 4 volumes.
Editions
Reference works
-
Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds.
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789
.
Malden, MA
:
Wiley-Blackwell
,
2011
. 97-99. Print.
-
Criticism
-
Donnelly, Phillip J.
Enthusiastic Poetry and Rationalized Christianity: The Poetic Theory of John Dennis
. ?
Christianity & Literature
54(2) (Winter 2005): 235-264, 315. Print.
-
Morillo, John.
John Dennis: Enthusiastic passions, cultural memory, and literary theory
. ?
Eighteenth-Century Studies
34(1) (Fall 2000): 21-41. Print.
-
Richardson, John.
War, Lyric Poetry, and Politics in the Eighteenth Century
. ?
Eighteenth-Century Studies
50(4) (Summer 2017): 381-399. Print.
-
Wheeler, David M.
John Dennis and the religious sublime.
CLA Journal
(1986): 210-218. Print.