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• The Selected Poems of Marjorie Pickthall (c1957), by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, ed. by Lorne Pierce (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Drift of Pinions (Montreal: The University Magazine; London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York: John Lane Company, 1913), by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Fires of Driftwood (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1922), by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, illust. by J. E. H. MacDonald
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• The Miracle, and Other Poems (Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1913), by Virna Sheard (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Spun-Yarn and Spindrift (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co. 1918), by Norah M. Holland (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Watchman and Other Poems (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Limited, 1916), by L. M. Montgomery (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• White Lilac (New York: John Lane Company, 1922), by Beatrice Redpath (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Wood Carver's Wife (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Limited, 1922), by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Marching Men: War Verses (Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1917), by Helena Coleman (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Greenwor(l)ds: Ecocritical Readings of Canadian Women's Poetry (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c1999), by Diana M. A. Relke (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Three Fredericton Poets, Writers of the University of New Brunswick and the New Dominion: Alumni Oration, Encaenia, May 19, 1933 (c1933), by Lorne Pierce (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Anthology of Magazine Verse (partial serial archives)

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

• Canadian Poems and Lays: Selections of Native Verse Reflecting the Seasons, Legends and Life of the Dominion (Toronto: Musson, ca.1894), ed. by W. D. Lighthall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Canadian Poets (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, c1916), ed. by John W. Garvin (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Canadian Songs and Poems: Voices From the Forests and Waters, the Settlements and Cities of Canada (London: W. Scott; Toronto: W.J. Gage and Co., 1892), ed. by W. D. Lighthall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Selections From Canadian Poets: With Occasional Critical and Biographical Notes and an Introductory Essay on Canadian Poetry (1864), ed. by Edward Hartley Dewart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Songs of the Great Dominion: Voices From the Forests and Waters, the Settlements and Cities of Canada (London: W. Scott, 1889), ed. by W. D. Lighthall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Soul: A Philosophic Poem, by Stanislas Joseph Doucet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treasury of Canadian Verse, With Brief Biographical Notes (Toronto: W. Briggs; London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1900), ed. by Theodore H. Rand (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treasury of Canadian Verse, With Brief Biographical Notes (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.; London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1900), ed. by Theodore H. Rand
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Winter and Summer on Ontario's Shore (1861), by A Lady (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Northland Lyrics (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by William Carman Roberts, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, and Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, contrib. by Charles G. D. Roberts and Bliss Carman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• On Canadian Poetry (c1943), by E. K. Brown (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Canada, the Spellbinder (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1917), by Lilian Whiting
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Greenwor(l)ds: Ecocritical Readings of Canadian Women's Poetry (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c1999), by Diana M. A. Relke (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Selections From Scottish Canadian Poets: Being a Collection of the Best Poetry Written By Scotsmen and Their Descendants in the Dominion of Canada (Toronto: Caledonian Society of Toronto, 1900), contrib. by Daniel Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Song of Moses and Other Poems, by Seymour Mayne, illust. by Sharon Katz (illustrated HTML at Concertina Press)

• A Lover's Diary, by Gilbert Parker (Gutenberg text)
• A Lover's Diary: Songs In Sequence (Cambridge, MA and Chicago: Stone and Kimball; London: Methuen and Co., 1894), by Gilbert Parker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Ricochet: Word Sonnets (in English and French; Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2011), by Seymour Mayne, trans. by Sabine Huynh (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Unexplored Fields of Canadian Literature (c1932), by Lorne Pierce (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)
• Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Michael Clark (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Aesthetics of Paradoxism (second edition, 2002), by Titu Popescu, trans. by Florentin Smarandache, Lucian Popescu, and Paul Georgelin (PDF at UNM)
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

• In Honor of "Brooklyn's Fighting Lady": Ada B. Jackson, Champion of People's Rights in Bedford-Stuyvesant for More than a Quarter of a Century (citizen's rally and campaign booklet; New York: Bedford-Stuyvesant Committee to Elect Ada B. Jackson, 1947), by Belle Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Selected Plays of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (includes Inherit the Wind; Auntie Mame; The Gang's All Here; Only in America; A Call on Kuprin; Diamond Orchid; The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; First Monday in October; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, ed. by Alan Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
• Kumu Kahua Plays (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1983), ed. by Dennis Carroll (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
• Alice in Blunderland: A Farce in One Act for Four Male and Two Female Performers (Boston: W. H. Baker, c1903), by William Lincoln Balch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Provincetown Plays (Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), ed. by George Cram Cook and Frank Shay, contrib. by George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pendleton King, James Oppenheim, Neith Boyce, Hutchins Hapgood, Floyd Dell, Eugene O'Neill, Alice Rostetter, Rita Wellman, and Wilbur Daniel Steele (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Provincetown Plays, First Series (New York: F. Shay, 1916), ed. by Frank Shay, contrib. by Eugene O'Neill, Louise Stevens Bryant, and Floyd Dell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Provincetown Plays, Third Series (New York: Frank Shay, 1916), contrib. by Neith Boyce, Alfred Kreymborg, and Eugene O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Writers on America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2002), ed. by George Clack (PDF at state.gov)
• Health and Wealth (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), by Elbert Hubbard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)

• The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Second Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1921) (page images at CMU)

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.