Informatics.

The article examines the complex relationship between information and Victorian poetry, highlighting how nineteenth-century poets engaged with the rise of information systems and the proliferation of "bare facts" in their cultural context. It discusses how poets like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti grappled with the tension between factual data and poetic transcendence, illustrating this through works such as Robert Browning's *The Ring and the Book* and Rossetti's "The Woodspurge." The article also explores contemporary digital humanities projects that use informatics to analyze Victorian poetry, suggesting that poetry itself can function as an informatic form that both reflects and interprets the epistemological challenges posed by information. Overall, Victorian poetry is presented as an active engagement with information, seeking to transform factual knowledge into deeper, often spiritual, meaning. [Extracted from the article]