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Arabic poetry -- 20th century

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• Arabic literature -- 20th century
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• The Gateway to Modern Arabic Poetry (English language version, 2007), ed. by Abdul-Settar Al-Assady, trans. by Munir Mezyed (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Specimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Khaliphat, with Some Account of the Authors (in Arabic, with English translations and notes; Cambridge, UK: Printed by J. Burges, 1796), ed. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Gateway to Modern Arabic Poetry (English language version, 2007), ed. by Abdul-Settar Al-Assady, trans. by Munir Mezyed (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Oral Tradition of Classical Arabic Poetry: Its Character and Implications (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Michael Zwettler (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c1987), by Susan Slyomovics (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)
• Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Oral Tradition of Classical Arabic Poetry: Its Character and Implications (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Michael Zwettler (PDF at Ohio State)

• Arabian Poetry for English Readers (1881), ed. by W. A. Clouston (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala: Selected From His Luzum ma la Yalzam and Suct uz-Zand, and First Rendered Into English (second edition; New York: J. T. White and Co., 1920), by Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, ed. by Ameen Fares Rihani (Gutenberg text)
• Specimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Khaliphat, with Some Account of the Authors (in Arabic, with English translations and notes; Cambridge, UK: Printed by J. Burges, 1796), ed. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (English portions only; c1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Rhetorics of Belonging: Nation, Narration, and Israel/Palestine (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2013), by Anna Bernard
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)
• Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Michael Clark (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Aesthetics of Paradoxism (second edition, 2002), by Titu Popescu, trans. by Florentin Smarandache, Lucian Popescu, and Paul Georgelin (PDF at UNM)
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Selected Plays of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (includes Inherit the Wind; Auntie Mame; The Gang's All Here; Only in America; A Call on Kuprin; Diamond Orchid; The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; First Monday in October; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, ed. by Alan Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
• Kumu Kahua Plays (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1983), ed. by Dennis Carroll (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
• Alice in Blunderland: A Farce in One Act for Four Male and Two Female Performers (Boston: W. H. Baker, c1903), by William Lincoln Balch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Provincetown Plays (Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), ed. by George Cram Cook and Frank Shay, contrib. by George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pendleton King, James Oppenheim, Neith Boyce, Hutchins Hapgood, Floyd Dell, Eugene O'Neill, Alice Rostetter, Rita Wellman, and Wilbur Daniel Steele (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Provincetown Plays, First Series (New York: F. Shay, 1916), ed. by Frank Shay, contrib. by Eugene O'Neill, Louise Stevens Bryant, and Floyd Dell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Provincetown Plays, Third Series (New York: Frank Shay, 1916), contrib. by Neith Boyce, Alfred Kreymborg, and Eugene O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Writers on America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2002), ed. by George Clack (PDF at state.gov)
• Health and Wealth (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), by Elbert Hubbard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)

• The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Second Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1921) (page images at CMU)

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

• You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), ed. by John Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (originally New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1927; reprinted Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2023), ed. by Countee Cullen, illust. by Aaron Douglas (PDF at unl.edu)
• American Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Verse (Munich: K. Wolff Verlag, c1923), ed. by Leonora Speyer, contrib. by Conrad Aiken, Maxwell Bodenheim, Anna Hempstead Branch, Witter Bynner, Adelaide Crapsey, Emily Dickinson, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), T. S. Eliot, John Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Orrick Johns, Alfred Kreymborg, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edwin Markham, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Vaughn Moody, Marianne Moore, Rose Cecil O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Lola Ridge, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale, Ridgely Torrence, Louis Untermeyer, William Carlos Williams, and Elinor Wylie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Poets' Corner)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920, and Year Book of American Poetry, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Michigan)
• The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (New York: Printed For Frank Shay (Flying Cloud Press), 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Bellman Book of Verse, 1906-1919 (Minneapolis: Bellman Co., 1919), ed. by William C. Edgar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (based on the 1948 edition), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML with commentary in Germany)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (New York: Guido Bruno, 1915), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Few Figs from Thistles (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Modern American Poets (London: Martin Secker, 1922), ed. by Conrad Aiken (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Navigable Waterways, by Pamela Alexander (HTML at CAPA)
• The New Poetry: An Anthology (New York: Macmillan, 1917), ed. by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Precipitations (New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1920), by Evelyn Scott
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Second April, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Michigan
  • Gutenberg text
• The Second Book of Modern Verse, ed. by Jessie B. Rittenhouse (Gutenberg text)
• Sudden Hunger, by Debra Bruce (HTML at CAPA)
• Vigils (New York: George H. Doran Company, c1921), by Aline Kilmer
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Anthology of Massachusetts Poets, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (Gutenberg text)
• Eight Harvard Poets (New York: L. J. Gomme, 1917), contrib. by E. E. Cummings, S. Foster Damon, John Dos Passos, Robert Hillyer, Stewart Mitchell, William A. Norris, Dudley Poore, and Cuthbert Wright (Gutenberg text)
• Modern American Poetry: An Introduction (1919 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer (HTML at Bartleby)
• Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology, by Richard Aldington, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Poet's Corner

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