The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form and coded in Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML) using the TEI Guidelines, with various forms of access provided through the WWW. In recognition of the effort involved in selecting, editing, encoding, and maintaining online the works included in the archive, we expect all users to abide by the conditions of use.

• Basic Searches: Single word and phrase searches throughout the entire corpus.
• Proximity Searches: Find the co-occurrence of two or three words or phrases.
• Boolean Searches: Find combinations of two or three words in a given paragraph or verse.
• Word Index: Browse through lists of all unique words in the texts.
• Bibliographic Searches : Identify works by author and title.
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• About the American Verse Project

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