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• 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 Lark and the Wren, by Mercedes Lackey (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• The Robin and the Kestrel (included on a Baen CD), by Mercedes Lackey (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)
• Beyond World's End (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB

• Fragments of Ancient Poetry, by James Macpherson, contrib. by John J. Dunn (Gutenberg text)
• The Poems of Ossian, To Which Are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and Dissertation on the Aera and Poems of Ossian (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1851), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Poetical Works of Ossian (text from the Crosby and Nichols edition of 1863), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at Ex-Classics)

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

• 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)

• Minstrelsy (San Francisco Theatre Research v15, monograph 25; 1939), ed. by Lawrence Estavan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, c1922), by Eleanor Farjeon
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, c1921), by Eleanor Farjeon, illust. by Richard Kennedy (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Master Skylark: A Story of Shakspere's Time (1897), by John Bennett, illust. by Reginald B. Birch (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Master Skylark: A Story of Shakspere's Time (New York: The Century Co., c1897), by John Bennett, illust. by Reginald B. Birch (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cape Town Harmonies: Memory, Humour and Resilience (Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2017), by Armelle Gaulier and Denis Martin (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• 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)

• Druidism: The Ancient Faith of Britain (London: E. J. Burrow and Co., 1924), by Dudley Wright
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Druides et Celtes: ou, Histoire de l'Origine des Sociétés et des Sciences (in French; Paris: V. Lecou, 1848), by J.-B. Bouché (page images at HathiTrust)
• Druidical Remains and Antiquities of the Ancient Britons, Principally in Glamorgan: Containing a General Account of the Same, in England, Wales, Scotland, France, &c. (Swansea: Printed by E. Griffiths, 1842), by J. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Druidical Temples of the County of Wilts (London: J. R. Smith; Salisbury: W. B. Brodie and Co., 1846), by Edward Duke (multiple formats at Google)
• Druidism Exhumed (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas; London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1871), by James Rust (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Druids and Their Religion (London: S. Bagster and Sons; et al., ca. 1880), by J. Eliot Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Veil of Isis: or, Mysteries of the Druids (1861), by William Winwood Reade (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• 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
• Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered (1906), by Norman Lockyer (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Abury, A Temple of the British Druids, With Some Others, Described (London: Printed for the author, 1743), by William Stukeley (page images in the UK)
• Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids (1740), by William Stukeley (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Imogen: A Pastoral Romance From the Ancient British, by William Godwin
  • HTML at pitzer.edu
  • Gutenberg text

• The Druids of Britain (London: Darton and Co., n.d.), by Mary Martha Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions, by James Bonwick (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Theory is Like a Surging Sea (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Michael Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Metaphysician in the Dark (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Charles Simic (page images at HathiTrust)
• More Power to Poets: A Plea for More Poetry in Life, More Life in Poetry (New York: H. Harrison, c1934), by Lucia Trent and Ralph Cheyney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Ignacio Navarrete (HTML at UC Press)
• Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems, and Its Literary Significance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930), by Edward Douglas Snyder, contrib. by James H. Leuba (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical Approaches to Literature (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1956), by David Daiches (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ring of Love, and Other Poems (Boston: Cornhill Pub. Co., c1923), by Brookes More, illust. by Tracy Porter Rudd and Lewis Perry (multiple formats at Google)
• Arte Poetica (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Na Typografia Rollandiana, 1818), by Nicolas Boileau Despréaux, trans. by Luís de Meneses Ericeira (page images at HathiTrust)
• Convention and Revolt in Poetry (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919), by John Livingston Lowes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Defence of Poetry, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (HTML at Toronto)
• A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Gutenberg text)
• English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century (London: Oxford University Press, H. Miford, c1916), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (Gutenberg text)
• The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (main text only; some peripheral sections omitted), by John Dennis (HTML at Toronto)
• Guide to Social Happiness (New York: E. Walker, ca. 1850), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• How to Write Poetry (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1919), by Ethel Maude Colson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1900), by George Santayana (multiple formats at archive.org)
• L'Art Poétique (student edition, in French with English notes; Cambridge: At the University Press, 1898), by Nicolas Boileau Despréaux, ed. by David Nichol Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nowadays (Boston: The Four Seas Co., 1918), by Lord Dunsany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
• A Study of Poetry, by Bliss Perry (Gutenberg text)
• English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) (London: Oxford University Press, c1922), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Studies in Poetry and Criticism (London: George Bell and Sons, 1905), by John Churton Collins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art and Scholasticism, and The Frontiers of Poetry, by Jacques Maritain, trans. by Joseph W. Evans (HTML at Notre Dame)
• The Poet's Poet: Essays on the Character and Mission of the Poet As Interpreted in English Verse of the Last One Hundred and Fifty Years, by Elizabeth Atkins (Gutenberg text)

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