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• English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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• English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
• English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
• English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism

• 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)

• Biographia Literaria, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Gutenberg text)

• The Mystical Poets of the English Church (London: SPCK; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Percy H. Osmond (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic Form (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by Sarah Appleton Weber (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher, by Henry Jones (Gutenberg text)

• Milton and Jakob Boehme: A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth-Century England (1914), by Margaret Lewis Bailey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher, by Henry Jones (Gutenberg text)

• Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Lauren Silberman (HTML at UC Press)

• Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Lauren Silberman (HTML at UC Press)

• Poems at the Edge of Differences: Mothering in New English Poetry by Women (2008), by Renate Papke (PDF in Germany)

• Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), by James D. Garrison (HTML at UC Press)

• Swinburne's Medievalism: A Study in Victorian Love Poetry (1988), by Antony H. Harrison (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (London: A. H. Bullen, 1906), by W. W. Greg (PDF at Case Western)

• Dryden in Revolutionary England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David Bywaters (HTML at UC Press)

• England's Antiphon, by George MacDonald (Gutenberg text)

• Flights From the Iron Moon: Genre Poetry in UK Fanzines and Little Magazines, 1980-1989 (electronic edition, 2008), by Steve Sneyd (PDF with commentary at efanzines.com)

• The Secret Drama of Shakspeare's Sonnets (1888 edition), by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)

• Pope's Horatian Poems (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1966), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Lives of the Poets (Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, Etc.), by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)
• Romanticism and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (2003), ed. by Lisa Malinowski Steinman (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets (with additional links and information), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer (HTML at 18thcenturyarchive.org)

• The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry: Sources of the Poetic Imagination in Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold (1952), by E. D. H. Johnson (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century, With Introduction and Notes (New York et al.: C. Scribner's Sons, c1921), ed. by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "Honourable Characteristic of Poetry": Two Hundred Years of Lyrical Ballads (1999), ed. by Marcy L. Tanter (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century, by William Lyon Phelps (Gutenberg text)
• Giant Hours with Poet Preachers, by William L. Stidger, ed. by Edwin Markham
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by Conrad Aiken (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), by James D. Garrison (HTML at UC Press)
• Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets (New York: J. Miller, 1864), by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Lives of the English Poets: Waller, Milton, Cowley, by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)
• Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (London: A. H. Bullen, 1906), by W. W. Greg (PDF at Case Western)
• Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets (with additional links and information), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer (HTML at 18thcenturyarchive.org)

• The English Dream Vision: Anatomy of a Form (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by J. Stephen Russell (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic Form (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by Sarah Appleton Weber (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Uber die Angelsächsischen Versus Gnomici (dissertation in German; Jena: A-Kämpfe, 1893), by Hugo Müller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Poems at the Edge of Differences: Mothering in New English Poetry by Women (2008), by Renate Papke (PDF in Germany)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Amoretti and Epithalamion, by Edmund Spenser (HTML at Virginia)
• The Family Library of Poetry and Song, by William Cullen Bryant (page images at MOA)
• The Flower of the Mind (1893; with Later Poems), by Alice Meynell (Gutenberg text)
• Gleanings From the Poets, For Home and School (New York: W. I. Pooley, c1850), ed. by Anna C. Lowell (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Gleanings From the Poets, For Home and School (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1855), ed. by Anna C. Lowell (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (1875), ed. by Francis Turner Palgrave (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1920; With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-Known Poems in Other Languages (sixth edition, 2 volumes; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1937), ed. by Burton Egbert Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe, ed. by James Parton (Gutenberg text)
• The Hundred Best English Poems (New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1904), ed. by Adam L. Gowans (Gutenberg text)
• Illustrated Library of Favorite Song, ed. by J. G. Holland (page images at MOA)
• 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
• It Can Be Done: Poems of Inspiration, ed. by Joseph M. Bachelor and St. Clair Adams (Gutenberg text)
• New Songs: A Lyric Selection made by A.E. (third edition; Dublin: O'Donoghue and Co.; London: A. H. Bullen, 1904), by George William Russell, contrib. by Padraic Colum, Eva Gore-Booth, Thomas Keohler, Alice Milligan, Susan L. Mitchell, Seumas O'Sullivan, George Roberts, and Ella Young (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Noon Songs and Sketches (London: Griffith, Farran and Co., ca. 1887), ed. by E. Nesbit and Robert Ellice Mack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1918), ed. by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 (1919 edition; see also The Project Gutenberg Book of English Verse), ed. by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (HTML at Bartleby)
• Poems, Arranged by Grades and Recommended for Reading and Memorizing (second edition; 1915), ed. by Michigan State Board of Library Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems With Power to Strengthen the Soul (revised and enlarged edition; New York et al.: Abingdon Press, c1909), ed. by James Mudge (Gutenberg text)
• A Poetry-Book of Elder Poets (first series; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1878), ed. by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children, ed. by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Project Gutenberg Book of English Verse (see also The Oxford Book of English Verse), ed. by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
• Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry: A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries, ed. by Edmund Goldsmid (Gutenberg text)
• Representative Poetry (electronic edition), ed. by University of Toronto English Department (HTML at Toronto)
• Selected Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, by Mary Wortley Montagu, ed. by R. S. Bear
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • HTML at Virginia
• Songs of Three Centuries, by John Greenleaf Whittier (page images at MOA)
• Specimens With Memoirs of the Less-Known British Poets (3 volumes, 1860), ed. by George Gilfillan (Gutenberg text)
• Visions of the Daughters of Albion (multiple copies), by William Blake (illuminated HTML at blakearchive.org)

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