ABSTRACT
The essay below is informed by many years’ labor on an electronic, Web-based collection of Swinburne’s works, The Swinburne Project (<https://www.swinburneproject.org/" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://www.swinburneproject.org/>). This digital collection both provides access to high-quality digital representations of Swinburne’s texts, along with additional scholarly material, and serves as a test bed for experimentation with various information and Web technologies in an effort to enable new reading and writing strategies; to identify and visualize poetic and informational systems, structures, and designs; and to open previously untrodden paths of discovery through Swinburne’s work. Digital media offer possibilities and functionalities—keyword searching, hyperlinking, integration of text, image, audio, and other media—that may benefit the representation and study of any poet, but for Swinburne, a deceptively and disarmingly difficult and dense poet, digital media offer even more particular advantages.
