English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
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A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres Bounde Up in One Small Poesie (generally attributed to Gascoigne; may also include works by others; London: Imprinted for R. Smith, ca. 1573), by George Gascoigne, ed. by Bernard Mordaunt Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)- The Phoenix Nest (1593), by R. S. of the Inner Temple (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- Poetical Recreations Consisting of Original Poems, Songs, Odes, &c; With Several New Translations, In Two Parts: Part I, Occasionally Written By Mrs. Jane Barker; Part II, By Several Gentlemen of the Universities, and Others (London: Printed for B. Crayle, 1688), contrib. by Jane Barker (HTML at Michigan)
- The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry (2 volumes; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1960), ed. by Ruth Willard Hughey, contrib. by John Harington and John Harington (PDF files at Ohio State)
- The Passionate Pilgrim (from the second edition; London: Printed for W. Iaggard, 1599), contrib. by William Shakespeare (HTML at uvic.ca)
- The Historical and Poetical Medley: or, Muses Library (London: Printed for T. Davies, 1738), ed. by Mrs. Cooper and William Oldys (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Muses Library: or, a Series Of English Poetry (London: Printed for J. Hodges, 1741), by Mrs. Cooper, contrib. by William Oldys (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (1578) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926), by Thomas Proctor, ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres: From the Original Edition (may include works by authors other than Gascoigne; London: Printed for F. Etchells and H. Macdonald, 1926), by George Gascoigne, ed. by Bernard Mordaunt Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Corn from Olde Fieldes: An Anthology of English Poems From the XIVth to the XVIIth Century, With Biographical Notes (London and New York: J. Lane, ca. 1918), ed. by Eleanor M. Brougham
- Merry Drollery Compleat: Being Jovial Poems, Merry Songs, etc. (based on the 1691 final edition, omitting some songs from the 1661 edition; Boston, Lincolnshire: R. Roberts, 1875), ed. by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, ed. by Herbert J. C. Grierson (HTML at Bartleby)
- Minor Poets of the Caroline Period (3 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1905-1921), ed. by George Saintsbury, contrib. by William Chamberlayne, Edward Benlowes, Katherine Philips, Patrick Hannay, Shackerley Marmion, Francis Kinnaston, John Hall, Sidney Godolphin, Philip Ayres, John Chalkhill, Patrick Cary, William Hammond, William Bosworth, John Cleveland, Thomas Stanley, Henry King, Thomas Flatman, and Nathaneel Whiting
- Poems, by Anne Killigrew (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Songes and Sonettes, ed. by Richard Tottel (HTML at Virginia)
- Court Satires of the Restoration (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by John Harold Wilson (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684, ed. by Charles Mackay (Gutenberg text)
- The Passionate Pilgrim (attributed to Shakespeare and various other authors), contrib. by William Shakespeare
- The Passionate Pilgrim: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1599, From the Copy in the Christie Miller Library of Britwell (Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1905), ed. by Sidney Lee, contrib. by William Shakespeare
- Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, ed. by Thomas Percy (multiple formats with commentary at exclassics.com)
- The Pack of Autolycus: or, Strange and Terrible News of Ghosts, Apparitions, Monstrous Births, Showers of Wheat, Judgments of God, and Other Prodigious and Fearful Happenings As Told in Broadside Ballads of the years 1624-1693 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927), ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions, ed. by John M. Bowers (HTML at metseditions.org)
- Poems by the Most Eminent Ladies of Great Britain and Ireland: Re-Published From the Collection of G. Colman and B. Thornton, Esqrs., With Considerable Alterations, Additions, and Improvements (2 volumes; London: W. Stafford, n.d.), ed. by George Colman and Bonnell Thornton, contrib. by Mary Barber, Aphra Behn, Frances Brooke, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Lee Chudleigh, Catharine Trotter, Constantia Grierson, Mary Jones, Anne Killigrew, Mary Leapor, Mary Masters, Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Monck, Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Katherine Philips, Laetitia Pilkington, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Anne Kingsmill Finch Winchilsea (page images at HathiTrust)
- Supplement of Reserved Songs From Merry Drollery, 1661 (ca. 1876), ed. by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (HTML and PDF at horntip.com)
- A Discourse of English Poetrie: Together, With the Authors Judgment, Touching the Reformation of Our English Verse (London: Printed by J. Charlewood for R. Walley, 1586), by William Webbe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance (originally published 1989; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by O. B. Hardison (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Heather Dubrow (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Lyric Provinces in the English Renaissance (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Harold E. Toliver (PDF at Ohio State)
- Music for a King: George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms (originally published 1972; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Coburn Freer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), by James D. Garrison (HTML at UC Press)
- Toward an Augustan Poetic: Edmund Waller's "Reform" of English Poetry (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1962), by Alexander W. Allison (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy (2 volumes (each also with "Arte of English Poesie" title page); London: Printed for R. Triphook, 1811-1815), ed. by Joseph Haslewood, contrib. by George Puttenham, George Gascoigne, William Webbe, King James I of England, John Harington, Francis Meres, Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Edmund Bolton, Edmund Spenser, and Gabriel Harvey
- 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)
- Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (Oxford, UK: Horace Hart, printer to the University, 1906), by W. W. Greg (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 (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lives of the English Poets: Waller, Milton, Cowley, by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)
- John Donne's Christian Vocation (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Robert S. Jackson (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Music for a King: George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms (originally published 1972; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Coburn Freer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Milton and Jakob Boehme: A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth-Century England (Germanic Literature and Culture series; New York et al.: Oxford University Press, 1914), by Margaret Lewis Bailey
- A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner (1560), by Anne Prowse (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- The School of the Heart, or, The Heart of It Self Gone Away From God, Brought Back Again to Him, and Instructed by Him, in 47 Emblems (third edition; London: Printed for Lodowick Lloyd, 1676), by Christopher Harvey (page images at Penn State)
- Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, by Aemilia Lanyer
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: English poetry- 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)
- An Anthology of New English Verse (Osaka: Suzuya, 1921), ed. by Makoto Sangū
- Euphrosyne: A Collection of Verse (Cambridge, UK: E. Johnson; London: A. and F. Denny, 1905), contrib. by Clive Bell, W. R. M. Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, and Leonard Woolf
- Eyes of Youth: A Book of Verse (second edition; London: Herbert and Daniel, 1911), contrib. by G. K. Chesterton, Francis Thompson, Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, Viola Meynell, Ruth Temple Lindsay, Hugh Austin, Lady Wentworth, Olivia Meynell, Maurice Healy, Monica Saleeby, and Francis Meynell (Gutenberg text)
- Eyes of Youth: A Book of Verse (second edition; London: Herbert and Daniel, 1911), contrib. by G. K. Chesterton, Francis Thompson, Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, Viola Meynell, Ruth Temple Lindsay, Hugh Austin, Lady Wentworth, Olivia Meynell, Maurice Healy, Monica Saleeby, and Francis Meynell
- The Family Library of Poetry and Song, by William Cullen Bryant (page images at MOA)
- The Flower of the Mind (London: Grant Richards, 1898), by Alice Meynell (Gutenberg text)
- The Girl's Book of Verse: A Treasury of Old and New Poems (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1922), ed. by Mary Gould Davis, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- 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)
- Gleanings From the Poets, for Home and School (new edition, enlarged; Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862), ed. by Anna C. Lowell
- The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (1875), ed. by Francis Turner Palgrave (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe, ed. by James Parton (Gutenberg text)
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe (13th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881), ed. by James Parton
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe (13th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884), ed. by James Parton
- 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
- 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 edition; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Leigh Hunt
- It Can Be Done: Poems of Inspiration, ed. by Joseph M. Bachelor and St. Clair Adams (Gutenberg text)
- Lillygay: An Anthology of Anonymous Poems (Steyning, UK: The Vine Press, 1920), ed. by Victor B. Neuburg, illust. by Eric West and Percy West
- 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)
- Night Songs and Sketches (London: Griffith, Farran, and Co., n.d.), ed. by E. Nesbit and Robert Ellice Mack, contrib. by Rosamund Marriott Watson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Noon Songs and Sketches (London: Griffith, Farran and Co., ca. 1887), ed. by E. Nesbit and Robert Ellice Mack (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1918), ed. by Arthur Quiller-Couch
- The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 (1919 edition; see also The Project Gutenberg Book of English Verse), ed. by Arthur Quiller-Couch (HTML at Bartleby)
- Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul (revised and enlarged edition; New York: Eaton and Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, c1909), ed. by James Mudge
- 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 B. Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Poets of Our Day (London: Methuen and Co., 1908), ed. by Naomi Royde-Smith, contrib. by Alfred Austin, George William Russell, J. J. Bell, Maurice Baring, Hilaire Belloc, Arthur Christopher Benson, Laurence Binyon, Francis William Bourdillon, Robert Bridges, Bliss Carman, Madison Julius Cawein, G. K. Chesterton, Ethel Clifford, Francis Burdett Money-Coutts, John Davidson, Austin Dobson, May Doney, Norman Gale, Gerald Gould, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Richard Le Gallienne, Winifred Lucas, Walter De la Mare, John Masefield, Alice Meynell, T. Sturge Moore, E. Nesbit, John Henry Newbolt, Alfred Noyes, Moira O'Neill, John Swinnerton Phillimore, Stephen Phillips, Eden Phillpotts, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Charles G. D. Roberts, A. Mary F. Robinson, George Santayana, Duncan Campbell Scott, Arthur Symons, John B. Tabb, Rachel Annand Taylor, Francis Thompson, Herbert Trench, E. S. Tylee, William Watson, Margaret L. Woods, Rosamund Marriott Watson, and W. B. Yeats
- The Project Gutenberg Book of English Verse (see also The Oxford Book of English Verse), ed. by Arthur 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)
- 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)
- Sweet Nature and Other Poems, With Illustrations (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.), ed. by Robert Ellice Mack (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Treasures of Art and Song (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.), ed. by Robert Ellice Mack (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion (multiple copies), by William Blake (illuminated HTML at blakearchive.org)
- The Works of Mr. John Gay (4 volumes; Dublin: J. Potts, 1770), by John Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
- Amoretti and Epithalamion, by Edmund Spenser (HTML at Virginia)
- Holiday Selections for Readings and Recitations, Specially Adapted to Christmas, New Year, Valentine's Day, Washington's Birthday, Easter, Arbor Day, Decoration Day, Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., c1920), ed. by Sara Sigourney Rice
- The Magic Casement: An Anthology of Fairy Poetry (London: Chapman and Hall, 1909), ed. by Alfred Noyes, illust. by Stephen Reid (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children, ed. by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Second Problems Book: Prizes and Proximes from the Westminster Gazette, 1908-1909 (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1909), ed. by Naomi Royde-Smith, contrib. by Lytton Strachey, illust. by F. Carruthers Gould
- Selected Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, by Mary Wortley Montagu, ed. by Risa Bear (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- The Westminster Problems Book: Prose and Verse (London: Methuen and Co., c1908), ed. by Naomi Royde-Smith
- The Winged Anthology: A Collection of Representative Poems Relating to Birds, Butterflies, and Moths, From 1536 to 1914 (London: J. Richmond, 1914), ed. by Irene Osgood and Horace Wyndham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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