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• Dreams interpretation -- Poetry
• Poetry -- Early works to 1800

• Oniropolus, or dreams interpreter. Being several aphorisms upon the physiognomy of dreams made into verse. Some of which receive a general interpretation: and others of them have respect to the course of the moon in the zodiack. To which is added several physiognomical characters of persons of different humours and inclinations. After which follows the praise of ale. And lastly, the wheel of fortune, or Pithagoras wheel. (London : printed by Tho. Dawkes, 1680), by Frederick Hendrick van Hove (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy (2 volumes (each also with "Arte of English Poesie" title page); London: Printed for R. Triphook, 1811-1815), ed. by Joseph Haslewood, contrib. by George Puttenham, George Gascoigne, William Webbe, King James I of England, John Harington, Francis Meres, Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Edmund Bolton, Edmund Spenser, and Gabriel Harvey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• The Art of Poetry: The Poetical Treatises of Horace, Vida, and Boileau, With the Translations by Howes, Pitt, and Soame (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1892), ed. by Albert S. Cook, trans. by Francis Howes, Christopher Pitt, and William Soame, contrib. by Horace, Marco Girolamo Vida, and Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Arte of English Poesie, by George Puttenham
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• The Defence of Poesie, by Philip Sidney (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• A Defence of Poesie and Poems, by Philip Sidney, contrib. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• A Defence of Ryme, by Samuel Daniel (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• An Essay on Criticism, by Alexander Pope
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• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Critical Essays of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1725 (1915), ed. by W. H. Durham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pierce Penilesse: His Supplication to the Divell, by Thomas Nash (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Runousoppi (in Finnish), by Aristotle, trans. by J. W. Calamnius (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lectures on Poetry: Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford, by Joseph Trapp (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Interlude of Wealth and Health, ed. by Percy Simpson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Über die Dichtkunst beim Aristoteles: Neu übersetzt und mit Einleitung und einem erklärenden Namen- und Sachverzeichnis versehen von Alfred Gudemann 1921 (in German), by Aristotle, trans. by Alfred Gudemann (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Arte of English Poesie, by George Puttenham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Genesis A: Translated from the Old English, ed. by Albert S. Cook, trans. by Lawrence Mason (Gutenberg ebook)
• Traité du poème épique. English (London : Printed for Tho. Bennet ..., 1695), by René Le Bossu, W. J., André Dacier, and M. de Fontenelle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Defence of poetry (At London : Printed [by James Roberts] for Henry Olney, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the George, neere to Cheap-gate, Anno. 1595), by Philip Sidney (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Poems, with the tenth Satyre of Iuvenal Englished. By Henry Vaughan, Gent. (London : Printed for G. Badger, and are to be sold at his shop under Saint Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1646), by Henry Vaughan and Juvenal. Satura 10 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the diuell. Written by Tho. Nash, Gent (London : Printed by Abell Ieffes, for I. B[usby], 1592), by Thomas Nash (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reflexions sur la Poétique d'Aristote et sur les ouvrages des poètes anciens & modernes. English (London : Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman ..., 1674), by René Rapin and Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mythomystes wherein a short suruay is taken of the nature and value of true poesy and depth of the ancients above our moderne poets. To which is annexed the tale of Narcissus briefly mythologized (London : Printed [by George Purslowe] for Henry Seyle, at the Tigers-head in St. Pauls Church-yard, [1632]), by Henry Reynolds and 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses Ovid (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Defence of poetry. (London : Printed [by Thomas Creede] for VVilliam Ponsonby, 1595), by Philip Sidney (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The oracles for war: or, Great Britain admonish'd to maintain our ancient rights by dint of sword To a new play-house tune. ([London] : Printed for S. Deacon, at the Angel in Gilt-spur-street, [1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Loves mistery: or, A parcel of clouded waggery. 'Tis all mens fancy to commend, that which is smooth and witty; more pleasant lines were never penn'd, they are so wondrous pretty. Tune is, She lay naked in her bed, &c. (London, : Printed for William Kenrick at the Black-spread Eagle in the Old Baily, [1663?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Piæ juventuti sacrum, an elegie on the death of the most vertuous and hopefull young gentleman, George Pitt, esq. ([Oxford : Printed by H. Hall], 1658), by Clement Ellis (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A funeral elegy upon the death of that excellent and most worthy gentleman John Winthrop Esq. late governor of His Majestyes colony of Conecticot [sic]; who deceased April , 1676 ([Boston : Printed by John Foster?], 1676) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Quodlibets, by Robert Hayman (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Innocui Sales. A collection of new epigrams Vol. I. With a præfatory essay on epigrammatic poetry. (London : printed by T. Hodgkin; and are to be sold by Matth. Gillyflower, in Westminster-Hall, 1694), by Henry Killigrew (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Epistolæ heroèidum. (London : Printed by E[dward] G[riffin] for William Cooke, and are to bee sold at his shop in Holborne, neare Furnivalls Inne, 1639), by 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Ovid, John Sherburne, and William Marshall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Good-fellows counsel: or, The Bad husbands recantation proving by arguments both just and fit, that he which spends least money has most wit. : To the tune of, Tan Tivye. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby next the Golden Ball by the Hospital Gate at West-Smith field, [between 1680 and 1685]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Poem narrative of Her gracious Majesties departure from Lisbone. (Printed at London : by James Cottrel, anno 1662), by W. W. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The art of love in two books. Written both to men and ladies. A new poem. (London : printed for Joseph Wild, at the Elephant at Charing-Cross, 1700. Where gentlemen and ladies may pick novels at 6 s. per doz. and be furnish'd with most sorts of plays), by Charles Hopkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Daiphantus, or the passions of loue Comicall to reade, but tragicall to act: as full of wit, as experience. By An. Sc. gentleman. Wherevnto is added, The passionate mans pilgrimage. (London : Printed by T. C[reede] for William Cotton: and are to be sold at his shop neare Ludgate, 1604), by Anthony Scoloker and Walter Raleigh (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A strange encounter of two lovers or, The dying maid reviv'd. To the tune of, On the bank of a brook, &c. With allowance. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke, [1677?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Marrovv of complements. Or, A most methodicall and accurate forme of instructions for all variety of love-letters, amorous discourses, and complementall entertainements. Fitted for the use of all sorts of persons from the noblemans palace to the artizans shop. With many delightfull songs, sonnetts, odes, dialogues, &c. Never before published. (London, : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard., 1655. [i.e. 1654]), by Philomusus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Madrigals, 1st set (In London : Printed by Thomas Este, 1604), by Michael East (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Musicke of sundrie kindes set forth in two bookes. The first whereof are, aries [sic] for 4. voices to the lute, orphorion, or basse. viol, with a dialogue for two voices, and two basse viols in parts, tunde the lute way. The second are pauens, galiards, almaines, toies, igges, thumpes and such like, for two basse-viols, the lierway, so made as the greatest number may serue to play alone, very easie to be performde. Composed by Thomas Ford. (Imprinted at London : By Iohn Windet at [sic] the assignes of William Barley and are to be sold by Iohn Brovvne in Saint Dunstons churchyard in Fleetstreet, 1607), by Thomas Ford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 14.Ayres in tabletorie to the lute expressed with two voyces and the base violl or the voice & lute only. 6.more to 4.voyces and in tabletorie. And 8.madrigalles to 5.voyces By Michaell Cavendish Gentleman (At London : Printed by Peter Short, on bredstreet hill at the signe of the Starre, 1598), by Michael Cavendish (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Works of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester: Consisting of Satires, Songs, Translations, and other Occasional Poems, by John Wilmot Rochester (Gutenberg ebook)
• Insignia prælustris Societatis Scoticanæ, ad Africam & Indias Mercaturam facientis, explicata. ([Edinburgh? : s.n., 1696]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A pastoral poem upon the discovery of a late horrid conspiracy against the sacred person of William III. King of England. By the honourable E. Howard, of Suffolk. (London : printed for R. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1696), by Edward Howard Suffolk (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• Buch von der Deutschen Poeterey (in German), by Martin Opitz, ed. by Wilhelm Braune (Gutenberg ebook)
• A new balade entituled as foloweth. To such as write in metres, I write of small matters an exhortation, by readyng of which, men may delite in such as be worthy commendation. My verse also it hath relation to such as print, that they doe it well, the better they shall their metres sell. And when we haue doen al that ever we can, let vs neuer seke prayse at the mouth of man. ([London] : Imprinted at S. Katherins besyde the towne of London, by Alexander Lacie, [1570?]), by R. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Essay on poetry. English and Latin. (London : printed for F. Saunders, at the Blue Anchor in the Lower-Walk of the New-Exchange in the Strand, MDCXCVII. [1697]), by John Sheffield Buckingham, Charles Montagu Halifax, George Stepney, Edmund Arwaker, and Nahum. Poem on the late promotion of several eminent persons in church and state Tate (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The arte of English poesie Contriued into three bookes: the first of poets and poesie, the second of proportion, the third of ornament. (At London : Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the black-Friers, neere Ludgate, 1589), by George Puttenham, Richard Puttenham, and John Lumley Lumley (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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