Unveiling private anthologies: exploring lay readers' poetic repertoire

For at least two hundred years, lay readers have been transcribing poems they considered emotionally or epistemologically relevant in notebooks. They did so for themselves, outside educational or institutional contexts. This poster will present a pilot study of seven such collections of Spanish poems dating from 1850 to 1930. They stem from private archives. We hypothesize that such collections feature specific semantic networks, providing insights into the lay readers’ poetic repertoire. We will compare the collections to a much larger control corpus and perform MFW and topic modeling analysis (with DARIAH TopicsExplorer).