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Filed under: Poets -- Biography

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)

Filed under: Poets -- Drama

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

Filed under: Poets -- Fiction

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)

Filed under: Poets -- Poetry

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)

Filed under: Bards and bardism

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
Early Bardic Literature, Ireland, by Standish O'Grady (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Minstrels

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)

Filed under: Poets in literature

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)

Filed under: Poets, American

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)

Filed under: Poets, German

Deutsches Dichter-Lexikon: Biographische und Bibliographische Mittheilungen Über Deutsche Dichter Aller Zeiten (2 volumes in German; 1876-1877), by Franz Brümmer

Filed under: Poets, Italian

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)

Filed under: Poets, Mexican

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)

Filed under: Poets, Scottish

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

Filed under: Scalds and scaldic poetry

Det Norsk-islandske Skjaldesprog omtr. 800-1300 (in Danish; Copenhagen: S. L. Møllers Bogtrykkeri, 1901), by Finnur Jónsson
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)

Filed under: Troubadours

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)

Filed under: Women poets

Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged (London: T. Rodd and S. Prowett, 1825), ed. by Alexander Dyce (multiple formats at Google)
Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged (London: T. Rodd, 1827), ed. by Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1942-2023

The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by April C. E. Langley (PDF at Ohio State)

Filed under: Alabaster, William, 1567-1640

Alabaster's Conversion (1599), by William Alabaster, ed. by Dana F. Sutton (HTML at the Philological Museum)

Filed under: Anaxandrides

De Anaxandrida Polemone Hegesandro Rerum Delphicarum Scriptoribus (in Latin with extensive Greek quotations; 1865), by Ludwig Weniger (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875

Dr. Georg Brandes's Anekdoter om H.C. Andersen (in Danish; Copenhagen: Reitzelske Forlag, 1896), by Jonas Collin
The True Story of My Life: A Sketch, by H. C. Andersen, trans. by Mary Howitt (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Anderson, Alexander, 1845-1909

Later Poems of Alexander Anderson, "Surfaceman" (1912), by Alexander Anderson, ed. by Alexander Brown (HTML in the UK)

Filed under: Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918

The Poet Assassinated (New York: Broom Pub. Co., 1923), by Guillaume Apollinaire, trans. by Matthew Josephson (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851

Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825

Memoir, Letters, and a Selection From the Poems and Prose Writings of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (2 volumes; Boston: James R. Osgood and company, 1874), by Mrs. Barbauld, ed. by Grace A. Oliver (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867

The Cult of Beauty in Charles Baudelaire (2 volumes; New York: Institute of French studies, Columbia university, 1929), by S. A. Rhodes (page images at HathiTrust)
Charles Baudelaire: A Study (London: Elkin Mathews, 1920), by Arthur Symons
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: Beaumanoir, Philippe de Remi, sire de, approximately 1210-approximately 1265

Manekine; John and Blonde; and "Foolish Generosity" (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010), by Philippe de Remi Beaumanoir, trans. by Barbara Nelson Sargent-Baur (PDF at PSU; pages may be unusually ordered)

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