Collections

The Princeton Prosody Archive is divided into seven collections, curated by the project team. Users are able to search across collections, within a single collection, or within any combination of collections. Select a collection to view it within the Archive.

180 digitized works · 1712–1921

A collection of works that provide words (usually organized alphabetically) and their definitions. Often, material pertaining to pronunciation and prosody appears in prefaces or appendices to these works.

3,391 digitized works · 1569–1927

A collection of grammar books as well as guides to rhetoric, composition, elocution, and speech that make little or no direct reference to versification.

4,008 digitized works · 1559–1927

A collection of versification manuals, handbooks, treatises, scholarly essays, reviews, and introductions to prosodic systems, including the Original Bibliography and more.

893 digitized works · 1559–1926

A collection of works cited in T. V. F. Brogan’s 1981 bibliography, English Versification, 1570-1980: A Reference Guide With a Global Appendix. For more information, see “History of the Archive” under “About.”

693 digitized works · 1617–1925

A collection of works that use musical notation, invented diacritical marks, phonetic scripts, universal alphabets, and more common marks for stress (the ictus or an “x” mark).

401 digitized works · 1569–1922

A collection of pronunciation guides as well as rhyming dictionaries. Several important reprinted works on pronunciation (i.e. Walker) contain long rhyming dictionaries at the end.