A number of collaborative online projects have developed during the past few years that draw on the resources of institutions and individuals that are frequently separated by hundreds, if not thousands, of miles. This website, which features early seventeenth-century political poetry, is just such a project. The team of collaborators includes professors from both Rutgers University and the University of Exeter, and was generously supported by funds from the Arts & Humanities Research Council. The poems themselves are largely those of satire and invective, and were originally penned in the decades between the rise of King James I to power and the outbreak of the English Civil War. Visitors to the site can search the entire collection by name or by source, and they may also want to peruse the introduction which offers some nice background material about the importance of these pieces of writing.
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