The poetry explores a multitude of topics, including abolition, children, civil rights, dreams, education, fugitive slave law, Indian raids, liberty, political issues, prejudice and slavery. A Database of Byzantine culture and society drawn from Greek hagiographical texts of the 8th to 10th centuries. Most of the vitae are included along with biographical and chronological information about each saint and an extended bibliography. Includes a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The Eighteenth-Century Fiction database comprises the works of thirty influential British writers of the eighteenth century.
Genres range from amatory fiction to epistolary novels to political satire.
Authors include Penelope Aubin, Frances Burney, John Cleland, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Frances Sheridan, Tobias Smollett, and Horace Walpole. 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century. Essentially the complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources. The English Poetry Database offers a comprehensive, searchable anthology of English poetry from 600 to 1900.