Didactic literature -- History and criticism
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Love and Language: A Study of the Classical French Moralist Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by Louise K. Horowitz (PDF at Ohio State)
- Studies in the Text History of the Life and Fables of Aesop (Philological Monographs #7; Haverford, PA: American Philological Association, 1936), by B. E. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ovid's Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by K. Sara Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Didactic literature- Ratis Raving, and Other Moral and Religious Pieces, ed. by J. Rawson Lumby (HTML at Michigan)
- The Morall Philosophie of Doni, Drawne Out of the Auncient Writers (aka the Fables of Bidpai, based on the Panchatantra; London: H. Denham, ca. 1570), ed. by Anton Francesco Doni, trans. by Thomas North (HML at EEBO TCP)
- The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts (New York: Putnam, 1960), ed. by T. H. White (page images at Wisconsin)
- The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum (EETS extra series #33; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1879), ed. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, contrib. by Frederic Madden
- Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-Side Recreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit (2 volumes; London: J.C. Hotten, ca. 1871), ed. by Thomas Wright, trans. by Charles Swan
- A Record of Auncient Histories, Entituled in Latin Gesta Romanorum: Discoursing Upon Sundry Examples for the Advancement of Vertue, and the Abandoning of Vice, No Lesse Pleasant in Reading, Then Profitable in Practise (London: T. Est, 1595), ed. by Richard Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Fables Ancient And Modern Translated Into Verse From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, With Orginal Poems, by Mr. Dryden (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1700), by John Dryden, contrib. by Homer, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Fables of Aesop, As First Printed by William Caxton in 1484, With Those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio (2 volumes; London: D. Nutt, 1889), by Aesop, ed. by Joseph Jacobs, trans. by William Caxton
- Fables of La Fontaine (New York: J. Miller, c1879), by Jean de La Fontaine, trans. by Elizur Wright, illust. by J. J. Grandville
- The Fables of La Fontaine (new edition with notes; 1882), by Jean de La Fontaine, ed. by J. W. M. Gibbs, trans. by Elizur Wright (Gutenberg text)
- The Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine, by Jean de La Fontaine (Gutenberg text)
- The Fables of Aesop, As First Printed by William Caxton in 1484, With Those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio (2 volumes; London: D. Nutt, 1889), by Aesop, ed. by Joseph Jacobs, trans. by William Caxton
- Aesop's Fables, by Aesop, trans. by George Fyler Townsend (Gutenberg text)
- Aesop's Fables, by Aesop and Joseph Jacobs (HTML at Bartleby)
- Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources (New York: Frank F. Lovell and Company, c1884), by Aesop, illust. by Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, and Ernest Henry Griset (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Aesop's Fables: A New Translation (1912), by Aesop, trans. by V. S. Vernon Jones, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton, illust. by Arthur Rackham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Aesop's Fables, With Text Based Chiefly on Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange (1870s edition of Cassell, Petter, Galpin, and Co.), by Aesop, illust. by Ernest Henry Griset (PDF at MSU)
- The Minor Poems of Homer: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice; Hymns and Epigrams (with introductions by Coleridge and a Life of Homer spuriously attributed to Herodotus; New York: A. Denham and Co., 1872), by Homer, trans. by Thomas Parnell, George Chapman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Congreve, Richard Hole, and Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, contrib. by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Pseudo-Herodotus
- The Breakfast of the Birds, and Other Stories (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1947), by Judah Steinberg, trans. by Emily Solis-Cohen, illust. by Edith Rudin (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Morall Philosophie of Doni, Drawne Out of the Auncient Writers (aka the Fables of Bidpai, based on the Panchatantra; London: H. Denham, ca. 1570), ed. by Anton Francesco Doni, trans. by Thomas North (HML at EEBO TCP)
- The Fables of Phaedrus (prose and verse translations, from an edition that also included the Comedies of Terence; 1887), by Phaedrus, trans. by Henry T. Riley and Christopher Smart (Gutenberg text)
- Metamorphoses, by Ovid, ed. by Samuel Garth, trans. by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, and William Congreve (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Metamorphoses (London: William Seres, 1567), by Ovid, trans. by Arthur Golding (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
- Metamorphoses (with glossary), by Ovid, ed. by Barboura Flues, trans. by Arthur Golding (PDF at sourcetext.com)
- Metamorphoses, by Ovid, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
- The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso, Elucidated by an Analysis and Explanation of the Fables (fifth edition; New York: A. S. Barnes and Burr, 1860), by Ovid, ed. by N. C. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
- King Horn; Floriz and Blauncheflur; The Assumption of Our Lady (EETS original series #14; Oxford, UK: Early English Text Society, 1901), ed. by J. Rawson Lumby and George Harley McKnight
- Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria Nova Across Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Marjorie Curry Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
- An Alphabet of Tales: An English 15th Century Translation of the Alphabetum Narrationum (HTML at Michigan)
- The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones Vulgares, by Jacques de Vitry, ed. by Thomas Frederick Crane (page images in Austria)
- A Record of Auncient Histories, Entituled in Latin Gesta Romanorum: Discoursing Upon Sundry Examples for the Advancement of Vertue, and the Abandoning of Vice, No Lesse Pleasant in Reading, Then Profitable in Practise (London: T. Est, 1595), ed. by Richard Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum (EETS extra series #33; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1879), ed. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, contrib. by Frederic Madden
- Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-Side Recreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit (2 volumes; London: J.C. Hotten, ca. 1871), ed. by Thomas Wright, trans. by Charles Swan
- The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Anne D. Hedeman (HTML at UC Press)
- A Distinction of Stories: The Medieval Unity of Chaucer's Fair Chain of Narratives for Canterbury (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Judson Boyce Allen and Theresa Anne Moritz
- The Gobble-Up Stories (revised and augmented edition, 2007), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)
- An Argosy of Fables: A Representative Selection From the Fable (New York: F. A. Stokes, c1921), ed. by Frederic Taber Cooper, illust. by Paul Bransom (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Aesop's Fables (and other tales; from various sources), by Aesop (HTML and RealAudio at aesopfables.com)
- The Fables of Babrius (London: Lockwood and Co., 1860), by Babrius, trans. by James Davies, contrib. by Aesop and George Cornewall Lewis (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Parables From Nature (London: T. Nelson & Sons, n.d.), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (Harvard Classics v17; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, and H. C. Andersen
- Literary Lectures Presented at the Library of Congress (Washington: Library of Congress, 1973), contrib. by Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, R. P. Blackmur, Archibald Henderson, Irving Stone, John O'Hara, MacKinlay Kantor, John Crowe Ransom, Delmore Schwartz, John Hall Wheelock, Robert Hillyer, Pierre Emmanuel, Cleanth Brooks, Richard Wilbur, Leon Edel, Alain Bosquet, Hans Egon Holthusen, Erich Heller, Marc Slonim, Lin Yutang, Giose Rimanelli, Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Stephen Spender, Saul Bellow, Louis Untermeyer, Ralph Ellison, Karl Shapiro, and Reed Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
- Books Alive: A Profane Chronicle of Literary Endeavor and Literary Misdemeanor (New York: Random House, 1940), by Vincent Starrett, contrib. by Christopher Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory (open access reprint; originally published Evanston: Northwestern University Press, ca. 1959), by Edwin Honig (PDF at Northwestern)
- It Needs to Be Said... (c1929), by Frederick Philip Grove (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Essays (New York: Harper and Bros., 1922), by Percy Stickney Grant
- Books and Habits From the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, by Lafcadio Hearn, ed. by John Erskine (Gutenberg text)
- The Cutting of an Agate (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by W. B. Yeats
- Essays in Little, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Function of the Poet, and Other Essays, by James Russell Lowell, ed. by Albert Mordell (Gutenberg text)
- Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Authorities, by Anne C. Lynch Botta (Gutenberg text)
- Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature (partial serial archives)
- Hieroglyphics (London: Grant Richards, 1902), by Arthur Machen (page images at Google; US access only)
- Initiation Into Literature, by Émile Faguet, trans. by Home Gordon (Gutenberg text)
- Letters on Literature, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- Literary Hours: or, Sketches Critical, Narrative, and Poetical (third edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804), by Nathan Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Literary Passions, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
- Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers (London: E. Mathews, 1911), by Lionel Johnson, ed. by Thomas Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
- Studies, Stories, and Memoirs (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Works of William H. Prescott (Montezuma edition, 22 volumes; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1904), by William Hickling Prescott, ed. by Wilfred Harold Munro, contrib. by John Foster Kirk, William Robertson, and George Ticknor
- Obiter Dicta, by Augustine Birrell (Gutenberg text)
- Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1900), by George Santayana (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
- Kleinere Schriften (3 volumes, in German; Weimar: E. Felber, 1898-1900), by Reinhold Köhler, ed. by Johannes Bolte
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