Poetry -- Early works to 1800

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• Poetry

• Poetics -- Early works to 1800
• Botany -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800
• Great Britain -- History -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800
• Joseph (Son of Jacob) -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800
• Libertinism -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800
• Natural history -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800
• Parr, Thomas, 1483?-1635 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800
• Poetry -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800
• Providence and government of God -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800
• Robin Hood (Legendary character) -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800
• Slave trade -- Africa -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800

• 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)

• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)

• The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts, With Philosophical Notes, by Erasmus Darwin
  • Part I: Gutenberg text
  • Part II: Gutenberg text

• Anglorum Praelia (in Latin and English), by Christopher Ocland, ed. by Dana F. Sutton (HTML at the Philological Museum)

• The History of Joseph: A Poem in Ten Books, by Elizabeth Singer Rowe (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Barley-Breake: or, A Warning for Wantons, by W. N., Gent. (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts, With Philosophical Notes, by Erasmus Darwin
  • Part I: Gutenberg text
  • Part II: Gutenberg text

• The Old, Old, Very Old Man: or, The Age and Long Life of Thomas Par, the Son of John Parr of Winnington (London: Henry Goffon, 1635), by John Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Schoole of Abuse, by Stephen Gosson (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• The Rewarde of Wickednesse (London: Imprinted by W. Williamson, ca. 1574), by Richard Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Gest of Robyn Hode (HTML at Rochester)

• A Poem on the African Slave Trade: Addressed to Her Own Sex (two parts; Dublin: J. Jones, 1792), by M. Birket
  • Part I (second edition): HTML at brycchancarey.com
  • Part II: HTML at brycchancarey.com

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

• 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)

• Books and Habits From the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, by Lafcadio Hearn, ed. by John Erskine (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Verses of Pythagoras (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Pythagoras, ed. by Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, trans. by Nayán Louise Redfield (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

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