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• Christian poetry, English
• English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
• Early modern, 1500-1700

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• A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner (1560), by Anne Prowse (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The School of the Heart, or, The Heart of It Self Gone Away From God, Brought Back Again to Him, and Instructed by Him, in 47 Emblems (London: Printed for Lodowick Lloyd, 1676), by Christopher Harvey (page images at PSU)
• Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, by Aemilia Lanyer
  • HTML at Arizona
  • HTML at Renascence Editions

• Milton and Jakob Boehme: A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth-Century England (1914), by Margaret Lewis Bailey (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Catholic Tales and Christian Songs (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell; New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1918), by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at CCEL
• The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1917), ed. by D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Op. I. (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell (Adventurers All Series), 1916), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Verses on Various Occasions (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903), by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)

• Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed by T. Browne for the author, 1733), by Mary Masters (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dream of Gerontius, by John Henry Newman
  • HTML at newmanreader.org
  • HTML and PDF at CCEL
• Towards Fields of Light: Sacred Poems (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1890), by Edwin Hatch
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher, by Henry Jones (Gutenberg text)
• Conversations on Religion, With Lord Byron and Others, Held in Cephalonia, A Short Time Previous to His Lordship's Death (London: J. Murray, 1830), by James Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Mystical Poets of the English Church (London: SPCK; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Percy H. Osmond (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by Sarah Appleton Weber (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi (5 volumes; 1978-2000), ed. by Sarah M. Horrall, Roger R. Fowler, Henry J. Stauffenberg, Peter H. J. Mous, L. M. Eldredge, and Anne Lingard Klinck
  • Volume I: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume II: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume III: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume IV: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume V: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
• Confessio Amantis, by John Gower (HTML at Michigan)
• Pearl, ed. by Sarah Stanbury (HTML at Rochester)
• Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse, ed. by Russell A. Peck (HTML at Rochester)
• Moral Love Songs and Laments, ed. by Susanna Fein (HTML at Rochester)
• The Vision of Piers Plowman, by William Langland (HTML at Michigan)
• The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, by William Langland (or Langley), According to the Version Revised and Enlarged by the Author, About A.D. 1377 (ninth edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1906), by William Langland, ed. by Walter W. Skeat (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, in Three Parallel Texts; Together With Richard the Redeless (2 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1886), by William Langland, ed. by Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works of William Herebert, OFM, by William Herebert, ed. by Stephen R. Reimer (HTML at Michigan)
• The Life of Saint Katherine, by John Capgrave, ed. by Karen A. Winstead (HTML at Rochester)
• Middle English Marian Lyrics, ed. by Karen Saupe (HTML at Rochester)

• The Phoenix Nest (1593), by R. S. of the Inner Temple (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Poetical Recreations Consisting of Original Poems, Songs, Odes, &c; With Several New Translations, In Two Parts: Part I, Occasionally Written By Mrs. Jane Barker; Part II, By Several Gentlemen of the Universities, and Others (London: Printed for B. Crayle, 1688), contrib. by Jane Barker (HTML at Michigan)
• The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry (2 volumes; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1960), ed. by Ruth Willard Hughey, contrib. by John Harington and John Harington (PDF files at Ohio State)
• The Passionate Pilgrim (from the second edition; London: Printed for W. Iaggard, 1599), contrib. by William Shakespeare (HTML at uvic.ca)
• The Historical and Poetical Medley: or, Muses Library (London: Printed for T. Davies, 1738), ed. by Mrs. Cooper and William Oldys (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Muses Library: or, a Series Of English Poetry (London: Printed for J. Hodges, 1741), by Mrs. Cooper, contrib. by William Oldys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minor Poets of the Caroline Period (3 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1905-1921), ed. by George Saintsbury, contrib. by William Chamberlayne, Edward Benlowes, Katherine Philips, Patrick Hannay, Shackerley Marmion, Francis Kinnaston, John Hall, Sidney Godolphin, Philip Ayres, John Chalkhill, Patrick Cary, William Hammond, William Bosworth, John Cleveland, Thomas Stanley, Henry King, Thomas Flatman, and Nathaneel Whiting
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Corn from Olde Fieldes: An Anthology of English Poems From the XIVth to the XVIIth Century, With Biographical Notes (London and New York: J. Lane, ca. 1918), ed. by Eleanor M. Brougham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Merry Drollery Compleat: Being Jovial Poems, Merry Songs, etc. (based on the 1691 final edition, omitting some songs from the 1661 edition; Boston, Lincolnshire: R. Roberts, 1875), ed. by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, ed. by Herbert J. C. Grierson (HTML at Bartleby)
• Poems, by Anne Killigrew (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Songes and Sonettes, ed. by Richard Tottel (HTML at Virginia)
• Court Satires of the Restoration (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by John Harold Wilson
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
• The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684, ed. by Charles Mackay (Gutenberg text)
• The Passionate Pilgrim (attributed to Shakespeare and various other authors), contrib. by William Shakespeare
  • Gutenberg text (Collins edition)
  • Gutenberg text (Clark edition)
• The Passionate Pilgrim: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1599, From the Copy in the Christie Miller Library of Britwell (Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1905), ed. by Sidney Lee, contrib. by William Shakespeare
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, ed. by Thomas Percy (multiple formats with commentary at exclassics.com)
• The Pack of Autolycus: or, Strange and Terrible News of Ghosts, Apparitions, Monstrous Births, Showers of Wheat, Judgments of God, and Other Prodigious and Fearful Happenings As Told in Broadside Ballads of the years 1624-1693 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927), ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions, ed. by John M. Bowers (HTML at Rochester)
• Poems by the Most Eminent Ladies of Great Britain and Ireland: Re-Published From the Collection of G. Colman and B. Thornton, Esqrs., With Considerable Alterations, Additions, and Improvements (2 volumes; London: W. Stafford, n.d.), ed. by George Colman and Bonnell Thornton, contrib. by Mary Barber, Aphra Behn, Frances Brooke, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Lee Chudleigh, Catharine Trotter, Constantia Grierson, Mary Jones, Anne Killigrew, Mary Leapor, Mary Masters, Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Monck, Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Katherine Philips, Laetitia Pilkington, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Anne Kingsmill Finch Winchilsea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement of Reserved Songs From Merry Drollery, 1661 (ca. 1876), ed. by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (HTML and PDF at horntip.com)

• Lyric Provinces in the English Renaissance (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Harold E. Toliver (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), by James D. Garrison (HTML at UC Press)
• Toward an Augustan Poetic: Edmund Waller's "Reform" of English Poetry (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1962), by Alexander W. Allison (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets (New York: J. Miller, 1864), by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (London: A. H. Bullen, 1906), by W. W. Greg (PDF at Case Western)
• Lives of the English Poets: Waller, Milton, Cowley, by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)

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