The Thesaurus of Czech Meter deals in detail with Czech poetry at the beginning of the national revival, and holds nearly 8000 records. Unlike the Corpus of Czech Verse, texts in the Thesaurus are manually annotated and cover not only collections of poetry, but also magazine publications, poetry appearing in prose texts, etc. Data for the Thesaurus was created by Miroslav Červenka and Květa Sgallová, and its software environment is the work of Petr Plecháč.
The Corpus of Czech Verse is a lemmatised corpus of Czech poetry of the 19th and early 20th centuries, annotated according to phonetic, morphological, metric, and strophic criteria. It currently contains more than 75,000 poems / 2.5 million verses / 14 million words. The Corpus provides an alternative approach to researching texts in the Czech Electronic Library, as well as advanced tools for working with them (keyword analysis, rhyme database, etc.).
The Czech Electronic Library is comprised of more than 1700 poetry collections and books, and includes all published poetry in the Czech language from the end of the 18th century to the generation of authors first published in the years immediately preceding WWI. It offers tools for searching by theme, etc.
The Institute of Czech Literature CAS publishes its essential handbooks – History of Czech Literature, History of Czech Literature 1945–1989, Lexicon of Czech Literature, and In the General Interest – in the shared Kramerius system. To facilitate research we also offer downloadable PDF files for offline use.
