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• The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century, by William Lyon Phelps (Gutenberg text)
• Giant Hours with Poet Preachers, by William L. Stidger, ed. by Edwin Markham
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by Conrad Aiken (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Thomas Hardy's Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy's Imagination (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Suzanne Keen (PDF at Ohio State)

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• From Overseas: An Anthology of Contemporary Dominion and Colonial Verse (London: Merton Press, ca. 1924), ed. by S. Fowler Wright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Georgian Poetry, 1911-1912, ed. by Edward Howard Marsh
  • HTML at Poets' Corner
  • Gutenberg text
• Georgian Poetry, 1913-1915, ed. by Edward Howard Marsh
  • HTML at Poets' Corner
  • Gutenberg text
• Georgian Poetry, 1916-1917, ed. by Edward Howard Marsh (Gutenberg text)
• Georgian Poetry, 1918-1919, ed. by Edward Howard Marsh (Gutenberg text)
• Georgian Poetry, 1920-1922, ed. by Edward Howard Marsh (Gutenberg text)
• A Miscellany of Poetry, 1919, ed. by William Kean Seymour, illust. by Doris Palmer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Twelve Poets: A Miscellany of New Verse (London: Selwyn and Blount, 1918), contrib. by Edward Thomas, W. H. Davies, Walter De la Mare, Vivian Locke Ellis, A. Hugh Fisher, Robin Flower, John Freeman, James Guthrie, Ruth Manning-Sanders, John Collings Squire, Rowland Thirlmere, and W. J. Turner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wine, Water, and Song (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1915), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
• Battle Songs (London: Max Goschen Ltd., 1914), ed. by E. Nesbit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern British Poetry (1920 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text and page images
• The New Poetry: An Anthology (New York: Macmillan, 1917), ed. by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology, by Richard Aldington, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Poet's Corner

• Wheels (annual anthology of verse, 1916-1921) (full serial archives)

• Insurgent Testimonies: Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015), by Nicole M. Rizzuto
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering and Sympathy in Modern Literature, Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Walter J. Slatoff
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• Modernist Heresies: British literary History, 1883-1924 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Damon Franke (PDF at Ohio State)
• Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lise Sanders (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Sharon Stockton (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and The Paradox of Homosexual Desire (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Christopher Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Figures in Modern Literature (London: J. Lane; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1924), by J. B. Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thus to Revisit: Some Reminiscences (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1921), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• British Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)
• The Desperado Age: British Literature at the Start of the Third Millennium, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)
• Effeminism: The Economy of Colonial Desire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Revathi Krishnaswamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Critical Attitude (London: Duckworth and Co., 1911), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Magic Casements: The Use of Poetry in the Expanding of Consciousness, by George Trevelyan (HTML with commentary at sirgeorgetrevelyan.org.uk)
• New Ways in English Literature (second edition; Chennai: Ganesh and Co., 1919), by James Henry Cousins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alan Brownjohn and the Desperado Age, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)
• Forty Years' Recollections, Literary and Political (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peace of Mind: Essays and Reflections, August 1914-September 1917 (London: A. Melrose, 1918) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Mitchum Huehls (PDF at Ohio State)
• Where the World is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Kim Savelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Margo Natalie Crawford (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by James C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Sharon Stockton (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c2005), by John R. Eperjesi (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Carlo Rotella (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism Since 1972 (followup volume to a 1974 survey; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Jackson R. Bryer, contrib. by Walter B. Rideout, James Leslie Woodress, Brom Weber, James L. W. West, Stuart Y. McDougal, Philip G. Cohen, David Krause, Karl F. Zender, Reginald Lansing Cook, John P. McWilliams, Bruce Stark, John Henry Raleigh, John J. Espey, Ellsworth Barnard, Warren G. French, Joseph N. Riddel, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Richard S. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2016), by Jimmy Fazzino
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-century U.S. Literature and Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter Caster (PDF at Ohio State)
• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)
• Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1924), by Paul Rosenfeld, illust. by Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Boughton, Paul Strand, and Dana Desboro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Henry Seidel Canby
  • multiple formats at archhive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism, by Henry Seidel Canby (Gutenberg text)
• Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Fred L. Gardaphé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature and Reality (New York: International Publishers, c1950), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)

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