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• Seasons in poetry

• A Dictionary of Haiku, Classified by Season Words with Traditional and Modern Methods, by Jane Reichhold (HTML at ahapoetry.com)

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

• The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal (4 volumes; 1895-1897), ed. by Patrick Geddes and William Sharp (multiple formats at 1890s.ca)

• Gems of Poetry, for Girls and Boys (Concord, NH: R. Merrill, 1850) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Twelve Months of The Year: With a Picture for Each Month, Adapted To Northern Latitudes (Portland, ME: Bailey and Noyes, ca. 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Seasons (based on the 1847 edition, with added material from other editions), by James Thomson, ed. by Bolton Corney, contrib. by Patrick Murdoch, John Aikin, and William Collins, illust. by John Bell, Charles West Cope, Thomas Creswick, John Callcott Horsley, John Prescott Knight, Richard Redgrave, Frank Stone, Charles Stonhouse, Frederick Tayler, Henry James Townsend, Thomas Webster, William Kent, and Thomas Stothard (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Seasons (third edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852), by James Thomson, ed. by Bolton Corney, contrib. by Patrick Murdoch, illust. by John Bell, Charles West Cope, Thomas Creswick, John Callcott Horsley, John Prescott Knight, Richard Redgrave, Frank Stone, Charles Stonhouse, Frederick Tayler, Henry James Townsend, and Thomas Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Land (London: W. Heinemann, 1926), by V. Sackville-West (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• A Dictionary of Haiku, Classified by Season Words with Traditional and Modern Methods, by Jane Reichhold (HTML at ahapoetry.com)
• Works and Days, by Hesiod, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
  • HTML with commentary at Perseus
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com

• Resurgence (Boston: T. Todd Co., printers, c1914), by Seraph Maltbie Dean and Lee Parker Dean
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Winter: A Poem, by James Thomson (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Peter and Polly in Autumn (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1918), by Rose Lucia
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Peter and Polly in Spring (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1915), by Rose Lucia, illust. by Rhoda Chase
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Believing Years (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Edmund Lester Pearson
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Peter and Polly in Summer (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1912), by Rose Lucia (multiple formats at archive.org)

• My Garden Acquaintance; A Good Word for Winter; A Moosehead Journal, by James Russell Lowell (page images at MOA)

• A Winter's Tale (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1961), by Jon Godden (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Curlytops Snowed In: or, Grand Fun with Skates and Sleds (New York: Cupples and Leon, 1941), by Howard Roger Garis, illust. by Julia Greene (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Cruise of the O Moo (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1922), by Roy J. Snell
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Jack Frost's Little Prisoners: A Collection of Stories for Children From Four to Twelve Years of Age (London: Skeffington and Son, 1887), contrib. by Stella Austin, S. Baring-Gould, Caroline Birley, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Brabourne, Mrs. Massey, Mrs. Molesworth, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, and Charlotte M. Yonge (page images at Florida)
• Jack and Jill, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Peter and Polly in Winter (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1914), by Rose Lucia
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Rollo's Philosophy: Air (new revised edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., c1855), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Boston Under Snow: Resilience Lessons for the Nation (Boston: Northeastern University, 2017), by Stephen E. Flynn (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• Horatio Lovejoy's New Year's Eve, 1863-4 (Charles City, IA: Advocate Steam Job Print, 1882) (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
• The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
• Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
• The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oriental Literature (4 volumes in The Worlds Great Classics, revised editions; New York and London: Colonial Press, c1899-1900), ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil and Epiphanius Wilson
  • Volume I (The Literature of Persia, Part I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (The Literature of Persia, Part II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The Literature of India): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (The Literatature of China): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amy E. Earhart (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), ed. by Raymond George Siemens and Susan Schreibman (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)

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