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• Hymns -- History and criticism
• Poets

• Hymn writers -- Biography
• Hymn writers -- Wales

• Hymnists

• Sweet Singers of Wales, by H. Elvet Lewis (multiple formats at CCEL)

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

• The Hymnody of the Christian Church (c1927), by Louis F. Benson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Hymnal 1940 Companion (third revised edition; New York: Church Pension Fund, 1956), by Episcopal Church Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of the Hymns and Tunes (1906), by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Studies in Hymnology: A Textbook Designed for Study Groups Where Attention is Given to the Subject of Church Music; Also for Colleges, Schools, the Music Teacher and All Inquiring Students (Nashville: Cokesbury Press, c1938), by Mrs. Crosby Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hymns of Methodism in Their Literary Relations, by Henry Bett (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Hymns of Wesley and Watts, by Bernard Lord Manning (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Ann Suter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Homeric Hymns: A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Untersuchungen Über die Echtheit der Hymnen des Ambrosius (offprint from Jahrbücher für Classische Philologie supplement volume, in German; Leipzig: Druck von B. G. Teubner, 1903), by August Steier
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Sweet Singers of Wales, by H. Elvet Lewis (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Why the Amish Sing: Songs of Solidarity and Identity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2014), by D. Rose Elder, contrib. by Terry E. Miller (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Laudes Regiae: A Study in Liturgical Acclamations and Mediaeval Ruler Worship (University of California Publications in History v33; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946), by Ernst H. Kantorowicz, contrib. by Manfred F. Bukofzer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hymnal 1940 Companion (third revised edition; New York: Church Pension Fund, 1956), by Episcopal Church Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hymns of Methodism in Their Literary Relations, by Henry Bett (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)

• Theatrum Poetarum: or, A Compleat Collection of the Poets, Especially the Most Eminent, of All Ages (2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for C. Smith, 1675), by Edward Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sixteen Words for Water, by Billy Marshall-Stoneking (HTML at Tripod)

• While Paris Laughed: Being Pranks and Passions of the Poet Tricotrin (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Blind Raftery and His Wife, Hilaria (London: S. Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1924), by Donn Byrne (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Monaldi: A Tale (Boston: C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1841), by Washington Allston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ranthorpe (London: Chapman and Hall, 1847), by George Henry Lewes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Shadow Flies (first edition; New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1932), by Rose Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lalla Rookh (based on the 1861 Longman's edition, with added illustrations and commentary from other editions), by Thomas Moore, contrib. by Agnes Repplier, illust. by John Tenniel (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Tales and Sketches (based on an 1863 edition), by Hugh Miller, ed. by Harriet Myrtle (HTML in the UK)

• 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 R. Blyth (HTML at metseditions.org)

• 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
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Early Bardic Literature, Ireland, by Standish O'Grady (Gutenberg text)

• The Complete Minstrel Guide: Containing Gags, Jokes, Parodies, Speeches, Farces, and Full Directions for a Complete Minstrel Show (Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Company, c1901), by William Courtright (HTML at googlepages.com)

• The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Christine G. Perkell (HTML at UC Press)

• The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition; Philadelphia: Parry and McMillan, 1855), by Rufus W. Griswold
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Poets and Poetry of America; With an Historical Introduction (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842), ed. by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)

• Deutsches Dichter-Lexikon: Biographische und Bibliographische Mittheilungen Über Deutsche Dichter Aller Zeiten (2 volumes in German; 1876-1877), by Franz Brümmer
  • both volumes together: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 1: page images in Germany
  • Volume 2: page images in Germany

• The Italian Poets, Translated into English Prose: Containing a Summary in Prose of the Poems of Dante, Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso (New York: H. W. Derby, 1861), by Leigh Hunt, contrib. by Dante Alighieri, Luigi Pulci, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Lodovico Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Italy Old and New (London: S. Paul and Co., c1922), by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Antología de la Poesía Mexicana Moderna (in Spanish; Mexico City: Contemporaneos, 1928), ed. by Jorge Cuesta, contrib. by Manuel José Othón, Salvador Díaz Mirón, Francisco A. de Icaza, Luis G. Urbina, Amado Nervo, Rafael López, Efrén Rebolledo, José Juan Tablada, Enrique González Martínez, Manuel de la Parra, Porfirio Barba Jacob, Ramón López Velarde, Alfonso Reyes, Jaime Torres Bodet, Manuel Maples Arce, Carlos Pellicer, Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, Enrique González Rojo, Salvador Novo, José Gorostiza, Xavier Villaurrutia, and Gilberto Owen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860 (Aberdeen: J. and J. P. Edmond and Spark, 1887), by William Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Det Norsk-islandske Skjaldesprog omtr. 800-1300 (in Danish; Copenhagen: S. L. Møllers Bogtrykkeri, 1901), by Finnur Jónsson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Prose Edda, by Snorri Sturluson, trans. by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Younger Edda: Also called Snorre's Edda, or the Prose Edda (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co.; London: Trubner and Co., 1880), ed. by Rasmus B. Anderson, contrib. by Snorri Sturluson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Younger Edda: Also called Snorre's Edda, or the Prose Edda (Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1901), ed. by Rasmus B. Anderson, contrib. by Snorri Sturluson (Gutenberg text)

• Die Biographieen der Troubadours, in Provinzalischer Sprache (in Provencal with German notes; Berlin: F. Duemmler, 1878), ed. by C. A. F. Mahn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lives of the Troubadours (London: D. Nutt, 1896), by Ida Farnell, contrib. by C. A. F. Mahn (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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Amelia Eileen Van Vleck (HTML at UC Press)
• Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1890-1895), by J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi, ed. by Thomas Roscoe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Aimeric de Peguilhan, ed. by William P. Shepard and Frank M. Chambers (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Trails of the Troubadours (New York and London: The Century Co., c1926), by R. D. Jameson, illust. by John Petrina
  • HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Traces of a Hidden Tradition in Masonry and Mediaeval Mysticism: Five Essays (1900), by Isabel Cooper-Oakley (multiple formats at archive.org)

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