English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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The House of Death: Messages from the English Renaissance (originally published 1986; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arnold Stein (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)- Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), ed. by Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood (PDF at Ohio State)
- Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Stephen Booth (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)
- Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
- Closet Devotions (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Richard Rambuss (page images at HathiTrust)
- Irregular Unions: Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Katharine Cleland (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Enchanted Glass: The Elizabethan Mind in Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1936), by Hardin Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
- Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century (3 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1908), ed. by Joel Elias Spingarn (page images at HathiTrust; some volumes US access only)
- Elizabethan Critical Essays (2 volumes; Oxford University Press reprint, c1904), ed. by G. Gregory Smith
- A History of Elizabethan Literature (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text and page images)
- The Seventeenth-Century English Essay (University of Iowa Humanistic Studies v3 #3; ca. 1926), by Elbert N. S. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631) (London: George Bell and Sons, 1903), by Thomas Seccombe and J. W. Allen
- The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (HTML at UC Press)
- Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)
- Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- The Rise of the Novel of Manners: A Study of English Prose Fiction Between 1600 and 1740 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1911), by Charlotte E. Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Heather Dubrow (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Lyric Provinces in the English Renaissance (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Harold E. Toliver (PDF at Ohio State)
- Music for a King: George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms (originally published 1972; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Coburn Freer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- 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)
- 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
- 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 (Oxford, UK: Horace Hart, printer to the University, 1906), by W. W. Greg (Gutenberg text)
- 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 (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lives of the English Poets: Waller, Milton, Cowley, by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)
- John Donne's Christian Vocation (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Robert S. Jackson (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Music for a King: George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms (originally published 1972; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Coburn Freer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Milton and Jakob Boehme: A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth-Century England (Germanic Literature and Culture series; New York et al.: Oxford University Press, 1914), by Margaret Lewis Bailey
- Sir Thomas Browne and His "Religio Medici": An Appreciation, by Alexander Whyte, contrib. by Thomas Browne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700- 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
- Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets (Pocket Library of English Literature #6; London: Percival and Co., 1892), ed. by George Saintsbury, contrib. by Thomas Lodge, John Lyly, Nicholas Breton, Robert Greene, Gabriel Harvey, Thomas Nash, and Thomas Dekker (Gutenberg text)
- Humour, Wit, and Satire of the Seventeenth Century (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), ed. by John Ashton
- The British Bibliographer (4 volumes; London: Printed for R. Triphook by T. Bensley, 1810-1814), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bibliographical Memoranda, in Illustration of Early English Literature (1816), by John Fry (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The British Bibliographer (4 volumes; London: Printed for R. Triphook by T. Bensley, 1810-1814), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books (10 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805-1809), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Checklist of American Copies of "Short-Title Catalogue" Books (second edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950), ed. by William Warner Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Restituta: or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived (4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814-1816), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- A List, Based on the Registers of the Stationers' Company, of 837 London Publishers (Who Were By Trade Printers, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, etc., etc.) Between 1553 and 1640 A. D. (1890), by Edward Arber
- A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English language, Alphabetically Arranged, Which, During the Last Fifty Years, Have Come Under the Observation of J. Payne Collier, F.S.A. (2 volumes; London: J. Lilly, 1865), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640, A. D. (5 volumes; London (last volume Birmingham): Privately printed, 1875-1894), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by Edward Arber
- A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, From 1640-1708 A. D. (3 volumes; London: Privatly printed, 1913-1914), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by George Edward Briscoe Eyre, contrib. by Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Foot Out of the Snare: With a Detection of Sundry Late Practices and Impostures of the Priests and Jesuits in England; Whereunto is Added a Catalogue of Such Bookes as in This Authors Knowledge Have Been Vented Within Two Yeeres Last Past in London, by the Priests and Their Agents (London: Printed by H. L. for R. Milbourne, 1624), by John Gee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Five Views of an Age: A Selection of Late Seventeenth Century Pamphlets From Ellis Library's Rare Book Room (1987) (PDF at Missouri)
- Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1884), by Francis Bacon, contrib. by A. Spiers and Basil Montagu (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall (1625 edition), by Francis Bacon (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- The Essays, by Francis Bacon (HTML at esp.org)
- Essays, Civil and Moral, by Francis Bacon (HTML at Bartleby)
- Essays, Civil and Moral, and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici (Harvard Classics v3; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Francis Bacon, John Milton, and Thomas Browne
- The Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral, and Wisdom of the Ancients (London: W. Pickering, 1852), by Francis Bacon, ed. by Basil Montagu (page images at Google)
- Elizabethan Critical Essays (2 volumes; Oxford University Press reprint, c1904), ed. by G. Gregory Smith
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