Poets -- Biography
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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)
- Sweet Singers of Wales, by H. Elvet Lewis (multiple formats at CCEL)
- The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, With Notices of His Life and Genius (2 volumes; New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850), by Edgar Allan Poe, contrib. by Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, and Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), by Phillis Wheatley and Margaretta Matilda Odell
- Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave (Boston: G. W. Light; New York: Moore and Payne, 1834), by B. B. Thatcher (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Big Sea (c1940), by Langston Hughes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself (Hillsborough, NC: D. Heartt, 1845), by George Moses Horton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Thomas Kennedy: The Poet Who Loved Liberty and Led a Struggle for Religious Tolerance (c2021), by Dan Guzy (page images with commentary at WHILBR)
- Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Emory Holloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Days With Walt Whitman; With Some Notes on His Life and Work (London: G. Allen, 1906), by Edward Carpenter
- John Greenleaf Whittier: A Sketch of His Life, With Selected Poems, by Bliss Perry and John Greenleaf Whittier (HTML at Michigan)
- Letters of Life (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at archive.org)
- Sidney Lanier, by Edwin Mims (Gutenberg text)
- Walt Whitman (Philadelphia: D. McKay, 1883), by Richard Maurice Bucke
- Walt Whitman in Mickle Street (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921), by Elizabeth Leavitt Keller, contrib. by Guido Bruno (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Walt Whitman; To Which is Added, English Critics on Walt Whitman (Glasgow: Wilson and McCormick, 1884), by Richard Maurice Bucke, ed. by Edward Dowden (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Worlds and I (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman (2 volumes; New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1910), by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Laura Stedman, and George M. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
- Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated, by F. V. N. Painter (Gutenberg text)
- Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1903), by F. V. N. Painter
- Some Reminiscences and Early Letters of Sidney Lanier (Macon, GA: J. W. Burke Co., 1907), by George Herbert Clarke, contrib. by Harry Stillwell Edwards and Sidney Lanier
- The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)
- Taboo (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c1999), by Boyer Rickel (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Frost-Bite and Frost-Bark: Robert Frost at Michigan (Ann Arbor: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, c1999), by Robert M. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Life in Poetry (New York: Bookman Associates, c1959), by Stanton A. Coblentz (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Big Sea (c1940), by Langston Hughes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated (London: Thomas Ward and Co., 1840), by Juan Francisco Manzano, trans. by Richard Robert Madden (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Lives of English Poets, From Johnson to Kirke White: Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives (1846), by Henry Francis Cary (Gutenberg text)
- The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (5 volumes), by Theophilus Cibber
- 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)
- Coleridge's Biographia Literaria: Text and Meaning (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Frederick Burwick (PDF at Ohio State)
- Lives of the English Poets: Waller, Milton, Cowley, by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)
- Lives of the Poets (Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, Etc.), by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of William Cowper (London: T. F. Unwin, 1892), by Thomas Wright
- Life of William Blake, With Selections From His Poems and Other Writings (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), by Alexander Gilchrist, contrib. by William Blake
- The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (based on the 1847 T. C. Newby edition, with annotated names; 2011), by Thomas Medwin, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
- Gerald Massey: Chartist, Poet, Radical, and Freethinker (revised electronic edition, 2009), by David Shaw (HTML in the UK)
- A Circle of Friends: the Tennysons and the Lushingtons (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by John O. Waller (PDF at Ohio State)
- Ariel: A Shelley Romance (c1924), by André Maurois, trans. by Ella D'Arcy (Gutenberg text)
- Ariel: ou, La Vie de Shelley (in French; Paris: B. Grasset, 1923), by André Maurois (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Coleridge, by H. D. Traill (Gutenberg text)
- Gerald Massey: Poet, Prophet, and Mystic (New York: Alliance Pub. Co., c1895), by B. O. Flower (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life and Letters of Robert Browning (second edition), by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, contrib. by Robert Browning (Gutenberg text)
- Life and Remains of John Clare, the "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet", by John Clare, ed. by J. L. Cherry (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of Francis Thompson (London: Burns and Oates, 1916), by Everard Meynell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of Lord Byron, by John Galt (Gutenberg text)
- Life of Robert Browning, by William Sharp (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (first and only volume published of a projected set; 1838), by James Gillman (Gutenberg text)
- Life of William Blake, With Selections From His Poems and Other Writings (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), by Alexander Gilchrist, contrib. by William Blake
- Lord Byron Jugé par les Témoins de sa Vie: My Recollections of Lord Byron, and Those of Eye-Witnesses of His Life (New York: Harper and Bros., 1869), by Teresa Guiccioli, trans. by Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron, From the Year 1808 to the End of 1814 (based on the 1824 London edition), by Robert Charles Dallas, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
- Shelley, by Sydney Waterlow (Gutenberg text)
- Shelley: An Essay, by Francis Thompson (Gutenberg text)
- William Blake (from the Popular Library of Art series, ca. 1910), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Byron, by John Nichol (Gutenberg text)
- A Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington (new edition; London: R. Bentley, 1893), by George Byron and Marguerite Blessington (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy From Its Beginning in 1816 to the Present Time, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text)
- The Last Days of Lord Byron (based on the 1825 Knight and Lacey edition), by William Parry, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
- Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Hemans (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1839), by Miss Browne, contrib. by Mrs. Hemans (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Hemans (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840), by Miss Browne, contrib. by Mrs. Hemans (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memorials of Mrs. Hemans, With Illustrations of Her Literary Character, From Her Private Correspondence (2 volumes; London: Saunders, 1836), by Henry Fothergill Chorley, contrib. by Mrs. Hemans
- The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816, Relating to Byron, Shelley, Etc. (London: E. Mathews, 1911), by John William Polidori, ed. by William Michael Rossetti
- Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries; With Recollections of the Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy (second edition, 2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1828), by Leigh Hunt
- Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece: Containing an Account of the Military and Political Events Which Occurred in 1823 and Following Years; With Various Anecdotes Relating to Lord Byron, and an Account of His Last Illness and Death (based on the 1831 J. Rodwell edition, with annotated names), by Julius Michael Millingen, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
- A Narrative of Lord Byron's Last Journey to Greece (based on the 1825 John Murray edition), by Pietro Gamba, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
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