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Alexander Huber
@c18ah.bsky.social
Digital humanist · Independent scholar and Consultant for Digital Humanities @huber-digital.bsky.social · Research: poetry (very long #c18th) · Published: eighteenthcenturypoetry.org, thomasgray.org · Project: romanticperiodpoetry.org
Thrilled to announce the completion of phase II of the #ElegyInTranslation project: 55 early #19thC #translations in Armenian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish, and Welsh:

www.thomasgray.org/texts/poems/...

#ThomasGrayArchive #c18th #DH #TEI
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive knowledge base is accessible via #SPARQL, enabling semantic queries and data integration. This infrastructure underpins the interactive "Networks"-view on the website and is the basis for further computational analysis and application development.

#Romanticism #DH
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Autumn 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:

www.thomasgray.org/about/histor...

#Elegy #translation #c18th #c19th #poetry #digitalhumanities #ThomasGray
October 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive —or #RPPA— runs on the PRISMS #OpenScholarship platform, which provides the flexible infrastructure needed to share RPPA’s #knowledgebase of the global Romantic period:

www.romanticperiodpoetry.org
www.prisms.digital

#SemanticWeb #DH #Romanticism #GlobalRomanticism
October 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
We have added Lady Mary Chudleigh's _Poems on several occasions_ (1703), Thomas D'Urfey's _New poems_ (1690), and facsimiles of works by John Gay and Mary Robinson to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive.

www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org

#C18th #poetry #DigitalHumanities #ECPA
September 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive participates in the #SemanticWeb of literatures and literary studies. Its ontologically-underpinned database of contextuality contributes to the wider knowledge base on the global Romantic period.

www.romanticperiodpoetry.org

#GlobalRomanticism #DH #poetry #c19th
September 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We have added three pre-1800 editions of Thomas Gray's poems to the #ThomasGrayArchive:

www.thomasgray.org/about/histor...

The poems of Mr. Gray. London: Kearsley, 1786. [ESTC T42615]
Poems by Mr. Gray. [London: 1787?] [ESTC T490245]
Poems by Mr. Gray. Parma: Bodoni, 1793. [ESTC N21109]

#c18th
September 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Today marks the 254th anniversary of the death of Thomas Gray—poet, letter-writer, scholar, polymath.

Explore Gray's life and works:
www.thomasgray.org
#ThomasGrayArchive

www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers...
#EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive

#c18th #poetry #dh #18thC #onthisday #otd
July 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Delighted to announce the Summer 2025 update to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive, with poems by Lady Mary Chudleigh and Thomas D'Urfey, new facsimiles, and a collaborative project with www.thomaspaine.org/the-collecte....

www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org

#C18th #poetry #DigitalHumanities #ECPA
July 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Fabulous visualization of rhymes in Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, by @matthewantoline.bsky.social, drawing on data from the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive rhyme-index:

public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

#c18th #poetry #AlexanderPope #Homer
July 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We have included Gray's sketch on the Bay of Gaeta in the #ThomasGrayArchive Latin poems:

www.thomasgray.org/texts/poems/...

Written on an excursion from Rome to Naples in 1740, while on the Grand Tour, the poem is among Gray's MS notes on the journey, at @jhulibraries.bsky.social.

#Latin #c18th
June 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive is open-access and encourages collaboration. All contributions to the platform are individually acknowledged as micro-publications. #RPPA facilitates flexible textual and image/audio/video annotations.

www.romanticperiodpoetry.org

#Romanticism #DH
June 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive database of contextuality contains details about every context, including its type, function, and contributor.

#RPPA visualizes the work performed by each context drawing on a number of built-in tools.

www.romanticperiodpoetry.org

#Romanticism #DigitalHumanities
June 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
We have added a birth/death place visualization to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive poets map as we continue to explore maps and mapping as analytical tools in support of multi-perspectival approaches, network analysis, and more.

www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/resources/map/

#c18th #poetry #DH
May 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive's database of contextuality contains details about every context, including its type, function, and contributor.

#RPPA visualizes the work performed by each context drawing on a number of built-in tools.

www.romanticperiodpoetry.org

#Romanticism #DigitalHumanities
May 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Spring 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:

www.thomasgray.org/about/histor...

#Gaeta #c18th #Latin #poetry #dh #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC
April 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Fabulous to be back at Keats Shelley House museum.

#Keats #Shelley #Byron #GlobalRomanticism
April 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive sits at the crossroads of #ComparativeLiterature and the #DigitalHumanities.

It facilitates the collaborative #contextualization of #poems on any expression level (full-text, facsimile, recording, ...)

romanticperiodpoetry.org

#Romanticism #DH
March 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We have added facsimiles of Mary Collier's #Poems on Several Occasions (1762) and Ambrose Philips' #Pastorals (1708, in Dryden's Poetical Miscellanies), to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive.

www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org

#c18th #18thC #poetry #c18dh #DigitalHumanities
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Update on the "#Elegy in translation"-project phase II (1806-1850): 55 early #c19 #translations in 12 #languages (Armenian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish, and Welsh):

www.thomasgray.org/about/projec...

#ThomasGrayArchive #c18th
February 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Very pleased to announce the first in a series of updates to the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive as we approach public beta!

www.romanticperiodpoetry.org

Stay tuned for new features, enhancements, and expanded content.

#GlobalRomanticism #RPPA #poetry #DigitalHumanities #SemanticWeb #KnowledgeGraph
February 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Delighted to announce the Winter 2024/25 update to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive, with poems by Isaac Bickerstaff, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dibdin, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and a new poets' map visualization.

www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org

#c18th #poetry #DigitalHumanities #ECPA #18thC
January 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Happy 308th birthday, Thomas Gray!

Explore Gray's life and works at the #ThomasGrayArchive: thomasgray.org

Thomas Gray in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers...

#c18th #poetry #dh #c18dh #otd #btd #onthisday #18thC
December 26, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Excited to announce the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive now holds 1,058 poems by 219 poets (with a total of 610 poets from 71 countries). The ontology-driven #RPPA knowledge base interconnects Romantic-period poems globally.

www.romanticperiodpoetry.org

#DayofDH2024 #GlobalRomanticism #SemanticWeb
December 2, 2024 at 12:42 PM