Poetry's Data Lab

The Poetry's Data Lab, directed by Meredith Martin (English/CDH), uses poetry found in the Princeton Prosody Archive datasets to analyze patterns in anglophone poetry teaching over time. What can poetry used in teaching texts (at scale) tell us about canonicity, book history, and the development of English as a discipline? The first output is the dataset of adjudicated poems, matched with titles and authors, from the millions of pages of poetic excerpts in the larger PPA datasets. Essays describing the creation of the dataset and preliminary results are forthcoming. This work is linked to the broader Ends of Prosody project, which highlights traditional and computational work based on the PPA, the publication of the complete PPA dataset, and forthcoming special issues of The Journal of Cultural Analytics and Victorian Poetry.