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Emperors -- Poetry

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• Four Middle English Romances: Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour or Artois, Sir Tryamour, ed. by Harriet Hudson (HTML at Rochester)

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• The Dove in the Eagle's Nest (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1890), by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by William John Hennessy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Parthenia: or, The Last Days of Paganism (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858), by Eliza Buckminster Lee (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Beauty of the Purple: A Romance of Imperial Constantinople Twelve Centuries Ago (London: L. Parsons, c1925), by William Stearns Davis (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Marengo: The Myth of Napoleon's Horse, by Jill, Duchess of Hamilton (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Transcultural Approaches to the Concept of Imperial Rule in the Middle Ages (Frankfurt et al.: P. Lang, c2017), ed. by Christian Scholl, Torben R. Gebhardt, and Jan Clauss
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Fookoua Siriak: ou, Traité sur l'Origine des Richesses au Japon, Écrit en 1708 (extract from Nouveau Journal Asiatique, in French; Paris: Schubart et Heideloff, 1828), by Arai Hakuseki, trans. by Julius von Klaproth
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Caesars, by Thomas De Quincey (Gutenberg text)
• Imperial Purple, by Edgar Saltus (Gutenberg text)

• The Scriptores Historiae Augustae, With an English Translation (in Latin and English; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922-1932), trans. by David Magie (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Lives of the Twelve Caesars; To Which Are Added, His Lives of the Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets, by Suetonius, trans. by Alexander Thomson and Thomas Forester (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine, by Eusebius of Caesarea (HTML at Fordham)
• De Die Natale; Life of the Emperor Hadrian (title of first book should be "De Die Natali"; New York: Cambridge Encyclopedia Co., 1900), trans. by William Maude, contrib. by Censorinus and Aelius Spartianus
  • HTML with commentary and corrected typos at elfinspell.com
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Regesten der Kaiser und Päpste für die Jahre 311 bis 476 n. Chr. (in German; Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1919), by Otto Seeck
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • facsimile reprint: PDF in Switzerland; 172 MB

• Die Königsgleichnisse des Midrasch, Beleuchtet Durch die Römische Kaiserzeit (in German; Breslau: S. Schottlaender, 1903), by Ignaz Ziegler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Divinity of the Roman Emperor (Philological monographs #1; Middletown, CT: American Philological Association, 1931), by Lily Ross Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Imperial Incense (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1934), by Princess Der Ling, illust. by Bertha Lumn (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Alliterative Morte Arthure, ed. by Valerie Krishna (HTML at Virginia)
• King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure, ed. by Larry D. Benson and Edward E. Fisher (HTML at Rochester)

• The Tragedies, Gathered by Ihon Bochas, of All Such Princes as Fell From Theyr Estates Throughe the Mutability of Fortune Since the Creacion of Adam (this copy appears to have the title page of "A Memorial of Suche Princes", a related suppressed publication, rather than this work's intended title page; London: J. Wayland, ca. 1554), by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by John Lydgate, contrib. by William Baldwin (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Court Satires of the Restoration (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by John Harold Wilson (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Regiment of Princes, by Thomas Hoccleve, ed. by Charles R. Blyth (HTML at Rochester)

• Absalom and Achitophel (based on the second edition, 1681), by John Dryden (HTML with commentary at Toronto)

• Richard the Redeless, and Mum and the Sothsegger, ed. by James M. Dean (HTML at Rochester)

• Theory is Like a Surging Sea (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Michael Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Semiotics of Poetry (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, c1978), by Michael Riffaterre (HTML with commentary at Indiana)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Notes sur la Technique Poétique (in French; Paris: Champion, 1925), by Georges Duhamel and Charles Vildrac
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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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