The entire text of each poem has been included. Indexes of titles and first lines, prefatory material and most notes have been excluded. Notes to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land have been included. Front and back matter have been excluded. The date of first publication indicates the date of first publication by Faber and Faber. All volumes are complete so some duplication of poems will occur. The editions have been provided by the publishers.
All texts are subject to third-party copyright. The texts may not be reproduced in any way except for fair dealing purposes without prior consent of the copyright holders.
The Faber Poetry Library provides access to the works of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. It contains the works of many of the greatest poets currently read and studied. This is the first time Faber and Faber's most popular writers have been published in electronic form. Students and scholars can now search the full-text of more than four thousand poems by over 40 British, Irish and post-colonial poets. The Faber list includes some of the greatest modern poets from T.S. Eliot (a Faber director and the firm's first poetry editor) to Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
The extensive list will now see new life in electronic form through the combination of Faber and Faber's editorial experience and Chadwyck-Healey's expertise in electronic publishing. The result is an unrivalled database of full-text works that will enable scholars and teachers to take the study of poetry in exciting new directions.
This collection will give students, researchers and teachers the opportunity to search across the corpus of Faber poetry.
The first release will contain 99 volumes by thirty-one of this country's leading poets. The second release is expected to take the total number to over forty key writers and is likely to include James Joyce and Christopher Logue.