# ForgeMesh Library — English Poetry 19th Century Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library — English Poetry 19th Century Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of up to 135 public-domain 19th-century English poetry books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/english-poetry-19th-century
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-english-poetry-19th-century-shelf-c5ff1f82
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_3s1OtM6VtTXrjmjLwjua-

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability forgemesh-library-english-poetry-19th-century-shelf-c5ff1f82 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the curated shelf of 19th-century English poetry books from the ForgeMesh library — show me up to 30 titles so I can pick one to read?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to browse or enumerate the curated catalog of 19th-century English public-domain poetry specifically — it provides a pre-ranked, curated shelf rather than keyword search, making it ideal for discovery, reading list generation, or navigating to full texts via drill-down routes. Prefer the full-text search sibling endpoint if you need to find specific passages or search by content rather than browse by category.

## Known failure modes

- Limit exceeds max of 50 — response may cap or error
- Payment failure (x402 protocol) — call not processed if USDC payment is not attached
- No results if corpus is temporarily unavailable
- Malformed request body returns validation error

## How this service works

Curated shelf: English poetry -- 19th century — 135 public-domain books including Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold, Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature, The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of public-domain 19th-century English poetry books (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50), including titles, authors, and drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve full text of each work. The list covers 135 total titles such as Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold and The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold",
    "author": "Arnold, Matthew",
    "book_id": 27739,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 9694
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "English poetry -- 19th century",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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