The Faber Poetry Library: Search Fields

You can search The Faber Poetry Library by the following fields:

• Keyword
• First Line/Title Keyword
• Poet
• Gender
• Date of First Publication

Keyword

From the Search page, you can use the Keyword field to search for any word or phrase contained within a poem. To enter terms into the search box:

• browse a list of keywords from which you can select terms to transfer back to the search box;

  or

• type your search terms directly into the Keyword search box. Search terms may consist of either single words or phrases.

For example:

When searching in the Keyword field, you can use truncation to retrieve documents containing variations on a term. If you choose to search for more than one term, you can also combine them using Boolean and proximity searching.

Please note that we do not recommend searching on numbers, as although the Summary of results in context will report all hits in the database, including those within database tags (where numbers are most likely to be recorded), only hits in the full text can be represented in any meaningful way in the Summary of results in context.

First Line/Title Keyword

From the Search page, you can use the First Line/Title Keyword field to search for any word or phrase contained in the first line or title of a work. To enter terms in the First Line/Title Keyword search box:

• browse a list of first line/title keywords from which you can select items to transfer back to the search box;

  or

• type your search terms directly into the First Line/Title Keyword search box.

For example:

When searching in the First Line/Title Keyword field, you can use truncation to retrieve documents containing variations on a term. If you choose to search for more than one term, you can also combine them using Boolean and proximity searching.

Poet

From the Search page, you can limit a search to a particular poet or poets. To restrict your search to a particular poet or poets, select the required poet name(s) from the Poet drop-down list.

Gender

From the Search page, you can limit a search to male or female poets. To restrict your search to a particular gender, select the required option from the Gender drop-down list. If you do not specify a gender The Faber Poetry Library will automatically search on both.

Note: Windows users can multi-select contiguous terms using SHIFT+CLICK and non-contiguous terms using CTRL+CLICK. Highlighted terms can be deselected by moving the cursor to the relevant term and using CTRL+CLICK.

Date of First Publication

You can limit a search to poems first published by Faber and Faber in a particular year or during a range of years. The default values appearing in the search boxes represent the earliest and most recent years relevant to the The Faber Poetry Library database.

The Date of Publication field can be searched in several different ways:

To search on a range of years, enter the relevant values into the From and to search boxes.

For example:

To search on one particular year, enter the same value into both of the search boxes.

For example:

To search on a given year and all subsequent years, enter the first date in the range into the From search box.

For example:

To search on a given year and all preceding years, enter the later date in the range into the to search box.

For example:

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