Credits & sources
Every poem in Versos is in the public domain: each author's verified death year falls at least 80 years in the past (the strictest applicable copyright term, Spain's vida + 80 rule for pre-1987 deaths). Poems whose provenance cannot be verified are excluded.
Text corpora
- DISCO — Diachronic Spanish Sonnet Corpus (CC BY 4.0). Ruiz Fabo, P., Bermúdez Sabel, H., Martínez Cantón, C., & Calvo Tello, J. (2017). github.com/pruizf/disco
- PoeTree — multilingual poetry corpora; English subcorpus derived from Project Gutenberg (CC BY-SA 4.0). Plecháč, P., Šeļa, A., et al. zenodo.org/records/10907309
- PoetryDB — public-domain English poetry. poetrydb.org
- Additional public-domain Spanish texts referenced from poesi.as.
Translations & glosses
Line-level English/Spanish glosses and learner notes are machine-generated for this app and carry no third-party rights.
Audio
All recitations are synthesized voices generated for Versos; no human voice was cloned.
Takedown
If you believe any text here is not in the public domain, contact dom.ward1@gmail.com and it will be reviewed and removed promptly while under review.