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• English literature

• English literature -- History and criticism -- Bibliography
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• English drama -- History and criticism
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• English literature -- Dictionaries
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• English wit and humor -- History and criticism
• Indic literature (English) -- History and criticism
• Nonsense literature, English -- History and criticism
• Physicians' writings, English -- History and criticism
• Working class writings, English -- History and criticism
• English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• English literature -- England -- London -- History and criticism
• English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
• English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
• English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
• English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism

• Adventures Among Books, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• The Age of Transition, 1400-1580 (London: George Bell and Sons, 1905), by F. J. Snell
  • Volume I: page images at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: page images at Google; US access only
• Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature (3 volumes; London: Edward Moxon, 1841), by Isaac Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, by Walter Pater
  • PDF at victorianprose.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Art, Literature, and the Drama (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Books and Habits From the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, by Lafcadio Hearn, ed. by John Erskine (Gutenberg text)
• Books in General (first series; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books in General: Second Series (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1920), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes (based on editions by New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1907-1921), ed. by Adolphus William Ward, A. R. Waller, William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Common Reader (first series, 1925), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Common Reader, Second Series (1932), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Critical and Historical Essays, by Thomas Macaulay, ed. by Alexander James Grieve
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (from "An English Garner"), ed. by Edward Arber and Thomas Seccombe, contrib. by John Churton Collins (Gutenberg text)
• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• De Libris: Prose and Verse, by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text)
• England's Antiphon, by George MacDonald (Gutenberg text)
• English Literary Criticism, by Charles Edwyn Vaughan, ed. by C. H. Herford (Gutenberg text)
• English Literature for Boys and Girls, by H. E. Marshall (Gutenberg text)
• English Literature: Its History and Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World, by William J. Long (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• From Chaucer to Tennyson, With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections From Thirty Authors, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A History of English Literature, by Robert Huntington Fletcher (Gutenberg text)
• Ideas of Good and Evil (second edition; London: A. H. Bullen, 1903), by W. B. Yeats
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors (8 volumes; Buffalo, NY: Moulton Pub. Co., 1901-05), ed. by Charles Wells Moulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary and General Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley
  • all but Phaethon: Gutenberg text
  • Phaethon: Gutenberg text
• Literary and Social Essays, by George William Curtis (Gutenberg text)
• Literary Byways (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1898), by William Andrews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Magazine Writing and the New Literature (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1908), by Henry Mills Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obiter Dicta, by Augustine Birrell (Gutenberg text)
• On the Art of Reading: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1916-1917, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (HTML at Bartleby)
• One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature, With Facsimiles of the Title-Pages, by Grolier Club, contrib. by George Edward Woodberry (page images at CMU)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Studies from Court and Cloister: Being Essays, Historical and Literary, Dealing Mainly with Subjects Relating to the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, by J. M. Stone (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in English Literature (London: E. Stanford, 1876), by John Dennis
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The London Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India, by Parama Roy (HTML at UC Press)

• The Conditions of a Colonial Literature (ca. 1897), by W. D. Lighthall (page images at canadiana.org)
• The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People: An Historical Review (Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1881), by John George Bourinot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Bunyan, by James Anthony Froude (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• John Milton: Poet, Priest and Prophet, by John Spencer Hill, contrib. by John Milton (HTML in the UK)
• The Works of John Bunyan, by John Bunyan, ed. by George Offor
  • multiple formats at johnbunyan.org
  • Gutenberg text

• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, by Colley Cibber
  • volume 1: illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: illustrated HTML at Virginia

• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism, by Henry Seidel Canby (Gutenberg text)
• The English Novel, by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)
• The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Dorothy Scarborough
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance (London: Constable and Co., 1921), by Edith Birkhead (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature (with other Bloomsbury references), ed. by Marion Wynne-Davies (searchable JavaScript-dependent HTML at bloomsbury.com)
• Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)

• Convention and Revolt in Poetry (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919), by John Livingston Lowes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Culture and Rhetoric of the Answer-Poem, 1485-1625, by Christopher Boswell (HTML with commentary at cultureandrhetoric.net)
• Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems, and Its Literary Significance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930), by Edward Douglas Snyder, contrib. by James H. Leuba (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imagination and Fancy: or, Selections From the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art, With Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question "What is Poetry?" (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1848), ed. by Leigh Hunt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Literature and Art (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Mystical Poets of the English Church (London: SPCK; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Percy H. Osmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Poet's Poet: Essays on the Character and Mission of the Poet As Interpreted in English Verse of the Last One Hundred and Fifty Years, by Elizabeth Atkins (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Poetry and Criticism (London: George Bell and Sons, 1905), by John Churton Collins (multiple formats at archive.org)

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