Bards and bardism -- Poetry

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• Bards and bardism
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• Fragments of Ancient Poetry, by James Macpherson, contrib. by John J. Dunn (Gutenberg text)
• The Poems of Ossian, To Which Are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and Dissertation on the Aera and Poems of Ossian (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1851), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Poetical Works of Ossian (text from the Crosby and Nichols edition of 1863), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at Ex-Classics)

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

• The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg (English portions only; Welse text and related footnotes omitted), by Iolo Morganwg, ed. by John Williams
  • Volume I: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Volume II: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• Early Bardic Literature, Ireland, by Standish O'Grady (Gutenberg text)
• Triades des Bardes de l'Ile de Bretagne (in French and Breton; parts of the preface may be missing; Paris: Bibliothèque de l'Occident, 1906), ed. by John Williams, trans. by Jean Le Fustec and Yves Berthou, contrib. by Iolo Morganwg
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Beyond World's End (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
• The Lark and the Wren, by Mercedes Lackey (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• The Robin and the Kestrel (included on a Baen CD), by Mercedes Lackey
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 284 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 285 MB

• Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Amelia Eileen Van Vleck (HTML at UC Press)
• Traces of a Hidden Tradition in Masonry and Mediaeval Mysticism: Five Essays (1900), by Isabel Cooper-Oakley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Troubadours and Courts of Love (London: S. Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895), by John Frederick Rowbotham
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Légendes Populaires et Chansons de Geste en Savoie (in French; Paris: Bureaux de la Revue des Idées, 1910), by Arnold van Gennep (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by E. Jane Burns (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Adonais, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by William Michael Rossetti (Gutenberg text)
• Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by M. T. Wilson (HTML at Toronto)
• The Regiment of Princes, by Thomas Hoccleve, ed. by Charles Blyth (HTML at Rochester)

• Aurora Leigh, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Sappho and Phaon (London: Printed by S. Gosnell and sold by Hookham and Carpenter, 1796), by Mary Darby Robinson
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • illustrated HTML at UC Davis
• Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907), by Bliss Carman (Gutenberg text)

• Art and Scholasticism, and The Frontiers of Poetry, by Jacques Maritain, trans. by Joseph W. Evans (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Arte Poetica (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Na Typografia Rollandiana, 1818), by Nicolas Boileau Despréaux, trans. by Luís de Meneses Ericeira (page images at HathiTrust)
• Convention and Revolt in Poetry (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919), by John Livingston Lowes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Critical Approaches to Literature (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1956), by David Daiches (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Defence of Poetry, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (HTML at Toronto)
• A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Gutenberg text)
• English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) (London: Oxford University Press, c1922), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century (London: Oxford University Press, H. Miford, c1916), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (Gutenberg text)
• Eunoia, by Christian Bök (page images at chbooks.com)
• The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (main text only; some peripheral sections omitted), by John Dennis (HTML at Toronto)
• Guide to Social Happiness (New York: E. Walker, ca. 1850), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• 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)
• L'Art Poétique (student edition, in French with English notes; Cambridge: At the University Press, 1898), by Nicolas Boileau Despréaux, ed. by David Nichol Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Metaphysician in the Dark (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Charles Simic (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nowadays (Boston: The Four Seas Co., 1918), by Lord Dunsany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Ignacio Navarrete (HTML at UC Press)
• Poetry, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
• 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)
• A Study of Poetry, by Bliss Perry (Gutenberg text)

• The Metaphysician in the Dark (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Charles Simic (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soulspeak: The Outward Journey of the Soul (c2002), by Justin Spring (HTML and PDF with commentary at Pitt)

• A Whimsey Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), ed. by Carolyn Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Concise Poetical Concordance to the Principal Poets of the World: Embracing Titles, First Lines, Characters, Subjects, and Quotations (New York: J. B. Alden, 1885), by Charles Augustus Durfee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• The Art of Poetry: The Poetical Treatises of Horace, Vida, and Boileau, With the Translations by Howes, Pitt, and Soame (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1892), by Horace, Marco Girolamo Vida, and Nicolas Boileau Despréaux, ed. by Albert S. Cook, trans. by Francis Howes, Christopher Pitt, and William Soames (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Arte of English Poesie, by George Puttenham
  • HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Toronto
• Critical Essays of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1725 (1915), ed. by W. H. Durham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Defence of Poesie, by Philip Sidney (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• A Defence of Poesie and Poems, by Philip Sidney, contrib. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• A Defence of Ryme, by Samuel Daniel (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• An Essay on Criticism, by Alexander Pope
  • text at Rutgers
  • Gutenberg text
• Pierce Penilesse: His Supplication to the Divell, by Thomas Nash (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Adelaide)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

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