Princeton Prosody Archive
Inviting users to rethink poetry's past through a collection of historical prosodic works
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Code
Code
Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Nick Budak, Gissoo Doroudian, Meg Hicks, Vineet Bansal, and Kevin McElwee. "Princeton Prosody Archive Version 3.7." Zenodo, August 5, 2021.
Data
Data
T. V. F. Brogan, Meredith Martin, Meagan Wilson, Christian Fryer-Davis, and Mary Naydan. "Princeton Prosody Archive Dataset Generated from T. V. F. Brogan's Original Bibliography." Zenodo. June 25, 2019.
Documentation
Documentation
Meredith Martin, Meagan Wilson, Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Rebecca Munson, and Xinyi Li, “CDH Project Charter — Princeton Prosody Archive 2017-18” (Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton, September 15, 2017).
Publications and Presentations
Publications and Presentations
Meredith Martin, Poetry's Data (forthcoming).
Mary Naydan, Rebecca Sutton Koeser, and Meredith Martin, "Beyond the Walled Gardens: Reinventing the Digital Research Landscape with the Princeton Prosody Archive," (poster, DH2024, Washington, D.C., August 9, 2024).
Mary Naydan, Rebecca Sutton Koeser, and Meredith Martin, "Working around Walled Gardens: The Princeton Prosody Archive as Workflow," (presentation, DARIAH Annual Event 2024, Lisbon, Portugal, June 20, 2024).
Cecilia Quirk, "A New Meterstick: A Visual Analysis of the Princeton Prosody Archive," PPA Editorial, July 6, 2023.
Selena Hostetler, "A Typographically Unique Tour of the PPA," PPA Editorial, April 27, 2023.
Selena Hostetler and Mary Naydan, "Streamlining Search Results with Clusters," PPA Editorial, April 25, 2023.
Andrew Tye, "Paratextual Prosodies of the Eighteenth Century," PPA Editorial, January 3, 2021.
Margaret King, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Twitter’s Unexpected Locus of Lay Prosody," PPA Editorial, January 3, 2021.
Rebecca Sutton Koeser, "Visualizing the Collections," PPA Editorial, January 17, 2020.
Gissoo Doroudian, "Designing the PPA User Interface & Interactions," PPA Editorial, May 24, 2019.
Meagan Wilson and Mary Naydan, "Deduplicating the Archive," PPA Editorial, March 26, 2019.
Meredith Martin,"Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Pathways through the PPA," PPA Editorial, March 17, 2019.
Colette Johnson, "After lives; or, the true history of Samuel Johnson in a digital archive," PPA Editorial, March 14, 2019.
Sean Pryor and Meredith Martin, "In the Classroom: A PPA-based Writing Assignment," PPA Editorial, March 11, 2019.
Meredith Martin, "How to Teach Prosody," PPA Editorial, March 6, 2019.
Meredith Martin, "Coventry Patmore and the Problem of Excerpts," PPA Editorial, March 5, 2019.
Meredith Martin, Mary Naydan, and Meagan Wilson, "Princeton Prosody Archive: Rebuilding the Collection and User Interface" (poster, DH2018, Mexico City, June 27, 2018).
Related Courses and Course Modules
Related Courses and Course Modules
ENG 563/CDH 563: “Poetics: Ballad, Sonnet, Lyric, Line: The Stories of Poetic Forms,” Meredith Martin, Ryan Heuser, Wouter Haverals, Fall 2023
HUM 307/ENG 277: “Literature as Data,” Brian Kernighan, Meredith Martin, Spring 2023
ENG 368: "Virtual Victorians," Meredith Martin, Miranda Marraccini, Spring 2018
Project Peer Review
Project Peer Review
Amanda Henrichs, "Review: The Princeton Prosody Archive," Reviews in Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (December 30, 2019).
Awards
Awards
Honorable Mention, 2020 Innovation by Design Awards, Fast Company, September 30, 2020.
Special Kudos, CSS Design Awards, July 26, 2020.
The Princeton Prosody Archive (PPA), the flagship project of the CDH, is a full-text searchable database of thousands of English-language digitized works published between 1559 and 1928. It collects historical documents and highlights discourses about the study of language, the study of poetry, and where and how these intersect and diverge. The PPA makes several arguments and welcomes new scholarship based on the work it gathers. Some of our initial questions include: What if we began to understand poetics in all of its historical, linguistic, and educational valences? What if literary concepts such as meter and rhythm are historically contingent and fundamentally unstable? What might scholars of distant reading the novel learn from a collection of materials pertaining to the study and philosophy of poetry?
Rather than a static repository of historical data, the PPA invites users to rethink the past and future of organizing, navigating, conceptualizing, and historicizing large amounts of data – about a single poem or about evolving and contradictory thinking about the technology of poetic language. See the project website for an account of the project's history, a full list of contributors and board members, and editorial academic essays.
Related projects
Related posts
PPA Hosts Four Undergraduate Summer Interns
2 September 2021
A team of four undergraduates helped with metadata work essential for the Princeton Prosody Archive's new features, while undertaking independent research projects that advanced the PPA in a unique way.
Princeton Prosody Archive's Year in Review
4 January 2021
In 2020, PPA worked to expand the collection of eighteenth-century materials in the Archive, responded to the COVID-19 crisis by creating internship and assistantship opportunities for students, and pushed key updates to the site.
Princeton Prosody Archive Honored by Fast Company
9 October 2020
The PPA, a CDH-sponsored project, received an honorable mention in the Learning category of Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Awards.
Princeton Prosody Archive Launches a Bold New Site
27 March 2019
The thousands of digitized works in the Princeton Prosody Archive are now publicly available on the archive's new and improved website. The searchable site means centuries' worth of texts are right at your fingertips.
Princeton Prosody Archive: Rebuilding the Collection and User Interface
2 July 2018
The following is content associated with a poster presented at Digital Humanities 2018. El texto que sigue forma parte de un póster que nos presentamos en el DH2018: El Archivo de la Prosodia de Princeton: Reconstruir la colección y la interfaz de usuario.
Team
Project Director
Technical Lead
Project Manager
User Experience Designer
Grants
2024–
Research Partnership
2023
UCRHSS (University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2022–2023
UCRHSS (University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2020–2021
Project Enhancement
2019–
Long Term Support
2018–2019
Dataset Curation
2018–2020
UCRHSS (University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2017–2019
Sponsored Project