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• Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), by Kevin Stein (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Poetry's catbird seat : the consultantship in poetry in the English language at the Library of Congress, 1937-1987 (Library of Congress :, 1988), by William McGuire (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), by Kevin Stein (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

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• Dell'emulazione e dell'influenza della poesia sui costumi; discorsi due. (Tipogr. dipartimentale, 1804), by Luigi Mabil (page images at HathiTrust)

• To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence (2007), by National Endowment for the Arts (PDF at nea.gov)
• Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (Washington: National Endowment for the Arts, 2004), by Tom Bradshaw and Bonnie Nichols (PDF at nea.gov)
• Survey of literary reading in America : executive summary. (National Endowment for the Arts, 2004), by National Endowment for the Arts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading at risk : a survey of literary reading in America (National Endowment for the Arts, 2004), by Tom Bradshaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Who reads literature? : the future of the United States as a nation of readers (Seven Locks Press, 1990), by Nicholas Zill and Marianne Winglee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Delicious Vice: Pipe Dreams and Fond Adventures of an Habitual Novel-Reader Among Some Great Books and Their People (second edition; Chicago: The Prairieland Publishing Co., 1918), by Young Ewing Allison (Gutenberg text)

• The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With numerous illustrations. (Houghton, Mifflin and co., 1883), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hutchinson family's book of poetry : containing sixty-seven of their most popular songs. (S. Chism, Franklin Printing House, Hawley Street, corner Franklin, 1858), by P. X. Keating and Asa Burnham Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anti-slavery melodies : for the friends of freedom (Elijah B. Gill, 1843), by Jairus Lincoln and Hingham Anti-slavery Society (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vote for Abraham : campaign song of '64 (H.L. Story, 1864), by Union (page images at HathiTrust)

• Evening hymns, arranged and illustrated (Obpacher Brothers, 1887), by Helen P. Strong (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hymn book for Christian worship. (Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1855), by Chandler Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plymouth collection of hymns for the use of Christian congregations (New York : A.S. Barnes & Company, [1856], 1856), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psalms and hymns. (David H. Williams, 1839), by Henry D. Sewall and David H. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bow of promise. (R.R. McCabe & Co., Publishers, 166 South Clinton Street, 1898), by Geo. D. Elderkin, F. A. Hardin, William J. Kirkpatrick, John R. Sweney, C. C. McCabe, John J. Hood (Firm), Curts & Jennings, Eaton & Mains, and R.R. McCabe & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new golden shower : containing the gems of the "golden shower," with about one-half additional (new) pieces, designed for Sunday schools, social, missionary and temperance meetings (Published by Wm. B. Bradbury, 427 Broome St. :, 1866), by William B. Bradbury, Phinney Ivison, and Biglow & Main (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sacred harmonium : a collection of hymns and tunes, original and selected : adapted to revival meetings, and all occasions of religious worship (For sale by J.P. Magee, 5 Cornhill ;, 1864), by J. W. Dadmun, Charles S. Nutter, J. L. Read, L. Hartsough, W. M. Doughty, W. J. Moses, James P. Magee, H. H. Otis, E. Goodenough, Poe & Hitchcock, Geo. C. Rand & Avery, N.Y.) Oneida Conference Seminary (Cazenovia, and S.D & H.W. Smith (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new golden chain of sabbath school melodies : containing every piece (music and words), of the Golden chain, with about one-third additional (W.B. Bradbury, 1866), by William B. Bradbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Collection of sacred hymns : adapted to the faith and views of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Dow & Jackson's Press, 1843), by John Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Celebration of the introduction of the water of Cochituate Lake into the city of Boston : October 25, 1848. (J.H. Eastburn, city printer, 1848), by Boston (Mass.). Common Council and James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)

• More pious friends and drunken companions; songs and ballads of conviviality (The Macaulay company, 1928), by Frank Shay, John Held, and Helen Ramsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• My pious friends and drunken companions, songs and ballads of conviviality (The Macaulay company, 1927), by Frank Shay and John Held (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk music of the United States (The Library of Congress, 1900), by Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk-songs du Midi des États-Unis ... (Les Presses universitaires de France, 1925), by Josiah Henry Combs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yankee doodle-doo; a collection of songs of the early American stage. (Payson & CLarke ltd., 1927), by Grenville Vernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Follow de drinkin' gou'd. (Published by the Texas Folklore Society, 1928), by J. Frank Dobie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp (Macmillan, 1920), by William Lyon Phelps and John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads (The Macmillan co., 1916), by John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs and ballads (s.n., 1844), by George Pope Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fig for your "upper ten" girls, with their velvets and satins and laces (New Orleans : A.E. Blackmar, [1866], 1866), by F. W. Smith and Robert Josselyn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Art-song in America; a study in the development of American music (Oliver Ditson company;, 1930), by William Treat Upton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ballads of the wine mad town (The author, 1916), by Florence Wobber and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ballads of Valor and Victory, Being Stories in Song from the Annals of America, by Clinton Scollard and Wallace Rice (HTML at Michigan)
• Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads (The Macmillan company, 1930), by John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the free, and hymms of Christian freedom ... (I. Knapp, 1836), by Maria Weston Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads and songs of the shanty-boy (Harvard university press, 1926), by Franz Lee Rickaby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads of valor and victory; being stories in song from the annals of America (F. H. Revell company, 1903), by Clinton Scollard and Wallace Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American songbag (Harcourt, Brace & company, 1927), by Carl Sandburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• American ballads and songs (C. Scribner's Sons, 1922), by Louise Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• College songs and popular ballads for guitar (Oliver Ditson Company, 1888), by C. W. Bemis, W. W. Harris, and Emma Schubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• They knew Paul Bunyan. (University of Michigan Press, 1956), by Earl Clifton Beck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Frontier ballads (Doubleday, Page, 1927), by Charles Joseph Finger (page images at HathiTrust)
• An American garland, being a collection of ballads relating to America, 1563-1739 (B.H. Blackwell, 1915), by C. H. Firth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Poetry of the people, comprising poems illustrative of the history and national spirit of England, Scotland, Ireland, and America (Ginn & company, 1903), by Charles Mills Gayley and Martin Charles Flaherty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads (The Macmillan company, 1927), by John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp (The Macmillan company, 1920), by John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Read 'em and weep; the songs you forgot to remember (Doubleday, Page & company, 1927), by Sigmund Spaeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christy Minstrel songs. ([n.p., 1800) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Gentlemen, be seated!" A parade of the old-time minstrels (Doubleday, Doran, 1928), by Dailey Paskman and Sigmund Spaeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of Henry Clay Work, poet and composer (J. J. Little & Ives, 1880), by Henry C. Work and Bertram G. Work (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weep some more, my lady (Doubleday, Page & company, 1927), by Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy songs : and other frontier ballads (T.F. Unwin, 1911), by John Avery Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Read 'em and weep; the songs you forgot to remember (Doubleday, Page & company, 1927), by Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads and songs of Indiana (Indiana university, 1940), by Paul G. Brewster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My pious friends and drunken companions, songs and ballads of conviviality (The Macaulay company, 1927), by Frank Shay and John Held (page images at HathiTrust)
• More pious friends and drunken companions; songs and ballads of conviviality (The Macaulay Co., 1928), by Frank Shay and Helen Ramsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp (The Macmillan company, 1919), by John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk-songs of Roanoke and the Albemarle (The Ballad press, 1939), by Louis W. Chappell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American songbag (Harcourt, Brace & company, 1927), by Carl Sandburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weep some more, my lady (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927), by Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy songs : and other frontier ballads (Macmillan, 1920), by John Avery Lomax (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads (Sturgis & Co., 1910), by John Avery Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Pennsylvania minstrelsy : as sung in the backwood settlements, hunting cabins and lumber camps in northern Pennsylvania, 1840-1910 (Altoona tribune company, 1919), by Henry W. Shoemaker and Henry W. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magazine of wit, and American harmonist. (M'Carty & Davis, 1821) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads (Macmillan, 1918), by John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tony Pastor's complete budget of comic songs: containing a collection of several hundred original local lays, eccentric lyrics, comic songs ... (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1864), by Tony Pastor and John F. Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jeremy Jollyboy : songster. Containing ... the most popular songs and ballads of every style, and among them are those "specialties" written by or for ... mimic and actor-vocalist (De Witt, 1876), by Sol Smith Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Southern warbler : a new collection of patriotic, national, naval, martial, professional, convivial, humerous, pathetic, sentimental, old, and new songs. (Babcock & Co., 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States songster : a choice selection of about one hundred and seventy of the most popular songs: including nearly all the songs contained in the American songster... To which is added The pizing sarpent, Settin on a rail; Jim Brown, and a number of new and original songs, written expressly for this work. (U. P. James, 1836), by U. P. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads surviving in the United States (G. Schirmer, 1916), by C. Alphonso Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The jolly miller songster (Hahn & Harmon company printers, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hutchinson family's book of words (Baker, Godwin & Co., printers, 1851), by Asa B. Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tony Pastor's 201 Bowery songster. Containing a choice collection of all the new comic, eccentric, and characteristic songs. As sung by the inimitable eccentric vocalist (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867), by Tony Pastor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virginia warbler: a new collection of patriotic, national, naval, martial, professional, convivial, humourous, pathetic, sentimental, old, and new songs. (Published by J. W. Randolph & Co., 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
• American ballads (Harper & Brothers, Publishers ..., 1880), by Thomas Dunn English (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp (T. Fisher Unwin, 1920), by John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads (Sturgis & Walton company, 1916), by John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads (Sturgis & Co., 1910), by John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballards and stories for readings with musical accompaniments for public entertainments, church socials, schools, and the family circle. (The John Church co.;, 1886), by Hezekiah Butterworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of popular songs : being a compendium of the best sentimental, comic, negro, Irish, Scotch, national, patriotic, military, naval, social, convivial and pathetic songs, ballads and melodies .. (G.G. Evans, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• I'm love's tiny child to day : duett [sic] composed for soprano and contralto voices as a companion to "Gently sighs the breeze" (Wm. A. Pond & Co., 1865), by E. G. B. Holder and Kate J. Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farewell! : ballad (Wm A. Pond, 1863), by W. H. J. Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nowadays : words from Harpers Magazine for October 1854, a humorous ballad (Firth, Pond & Co., 1854), by Charles C. Converse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mother on the brain : comic ballad as sung by all minstrel bands (Brooklyn (67 Fourth Street, Brooklyn) : D.S. Holmes, [1865], 1865), by M. F. H. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christy's plantation melodies. ... (Fisher & Brother, 1851), by Edwin Pearce Christy, Wm. Ham. Hall, and Fisher & Brother (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flag of the free collection (J.P. McCaskey, 1902), by J. P. McCaskey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fare thee well, sweet forest fountain! (F.D. Benteen, 1844), by Felice Romani and Edward J. Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Blossom : subject from David Copperfield : ballad (Firth, Pond & Co., 1 Franklin Sq., 1848), by Stephen Glover, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Young, and Pond & Co Firth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Camp songs; a collection of national patriotic (O. Ditson & Co., 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beadle's dime song book. (Beadle and Co., 1859), by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Gentlemen, be seated!" A parade of the old-time minstrels (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1928), by Dailey Paskman and Sigmund Spaeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America: Two Hundred and Fifty Tunes and Texts, with an Introduction and Notes, ed. by George Pullen Jackson (Gutenberg ebook)

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