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• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley (W. Blackwood and sons, 1874), by William Minto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relations of the Elizabethan sonnet sequences to earlier English verse : especially that of Chaucer (Chilton Printing Co., 1903), by Daniel E. Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. (C. Bathurst, J. Buckland [etc.], 1781), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. (Printed for T. Longman [etc., 1794), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson's Lives of the poets. : Ed., with notes, by Mrs. Alexander Napier. And an introduction by J. W. Hales. (G. Bell and sons, 1890), by Samuel Johnson, John W. Hales, and Robina Napier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1866), by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, and Peter Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The six chief lives from Johnson's "Lives of the poets", with Macaulay's "Life of Johnson". (Macmillan and Co., 1861), by Samuel Johnson, Matthew Arnold, and Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the English poets (Clarendon press, 1905), by Samuel Johnson, Harold Spencer Scott, and George Birkbeck Norman Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson's Lives of the the English poets, abridged: with notes and illustrations (E. Newbery, 1797), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson's Lives of the poets (John Murray, 1854), by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Peter Cunningham, R. B. Adam, A. D. Toogood, Charles Dickens, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical Decameron, or, Ten conversations on English poets and poetry, particularly of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. (A. Constable & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1820), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of the early English poets : to which is prefixed, an Historical sketch of the rise and progress of the English poetry and language, (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811), by George Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetic imagery illustrated from Elizabethan literature. (Russell & Russell, 1961), by Henry Willis Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventeenth century studies, a contribution to the history of English poetry (Dodd, Mead and company, 1897), by Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The divine science; the aesthetic of some representative seventeenth-century English poets. (Columbia Univ. Pr., 1940), by Leah Jonas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works (Printed and sold by Samuel Etheridge, jun'r., 1810), by Samuel Johnson, Mary G. Ware, Samuel Etheridge, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress), and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of John Skelton: with notes, and some account of the author and his writings (T. Rodd, 1843), by John Skelton and Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jacobean poets. (C. Scribner's sons, 1894), by Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Shakespeare to Pope; an inquiry into the causes and phenomena of the rise of classical poetry in England (The University Press, 1885), by Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pastoral poetry & pastoral drama; a literary inquiry, with special reference to the pre-restoration stage in England. (A. H. Bullen, 1906), by W. W. Greg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (The Columbia university press, 1903), by John Smith Harrison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Columbia university press, 1915), by John Smith Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Tudor poetry, 1485-1547. (The Macmillan company, 1920), by John Milton Berdan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homage to John Dryden; three essays on poetry of the seventeenth century (L. and Virginia Woolf, 1927), by T. S. Eliot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Classical influence upon the Tribe of Ben; a study of classical elements in the non-dramatic poetry of Ben Jonson and his circle ... (The Torch press, 1939), by Kathryn Anderson McEuen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lives of the English poets. (Oxford University Press, 1906), by Samuel Johnson and Arthur Waugh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Martial books and Tudor verse. (King's Crown Press, 1951), by G. Geoffrey Langsam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Tudor poetry, 1485-1547 (Shoe String Press, 1961), by John M. Berdan (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Shakespeare to Pope (Dodd, Mead & company, 1885), by Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventeenth century studies. (Scholarly Press, 1970), by Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pastoral poetry & pastoral drama; a literary inquiry, with special reference to the pre-Restoration stage in England. (Russell & Russell, 1959), by W. W. Greg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über das Sonett und Seine Gestaltung in der Englischen Dichtung bis Milton ... (Druck von Metzger & Wittig, 1886), by Karl August Lentzner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classical influence upon the Tribe of Ben (The Torch press, 1939), by Kathryn Anderson McEuen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The breaking of the circle; studies in the effect of the "new science" upon seventeenth century poetry. (Northwestern University Press, 1950), by Marjorie Hope Nicolson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan love conventions (University of California Press, 1933), by Lu Emily Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspere and his forerunners; studies in Elizabethan poetry and its development from early English (Doubleday, Page & co., 1902), by Sidney Lanier and Henry Wysham Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elizabethan lyrists and their poetry. (AMS Press, 1972), by Amy Cruse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Elizabethan lyric; a study (The Macmillan company, agents, 1903), by John Erskine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley (Ginn & company, 1891), by William Minto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan criticism of poetry ... (George Banta Publishing Company, 1914), by Guy Andrew Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spenser, the school of the Fletchers, and Milton (University of California Press, 1912), by Herbert E. Cory (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Donne, his flight from mediaevalism (The University of Illinois press, 1944), by Michael Francis Moloney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetic and verse criticism of the reign of Elizabeth. (University of Pennsylvania press;, 1891), by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Browne; his Britannia's pastorals and the pastoral poetry of the Elizabethan age. (K. J. Trübner, 1897), by Frederic William Moorman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Petrarkismus in der Sprache der englischen Sonettdichter der Renaissance ([publisher not identified], 1927), by Hermann Karl Hasselkuss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Cavalier poets; their lives, their day, and their poetry (The Neale publishing company, 1911), by Carl Holliday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventeenth century studies; a contribution to the history of English poetry (W. Heinemann, 1897), by Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Konventionelles in den Elisabethanischen sonetten mit berücksichtigung der französischen und italienischen quellen ... (H. Alder, inh.:, 1915), by Ernst Kaun (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A discourse of English poetrie. : 1586 ... (A. Constable & co., 1895), by William Webbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan poetry in the eighteenth century. (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1947), by Earl R. Wasserman (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Pamphlets on English poetry]. (1884), by Daniel Abegg, Lois Montgomery, Otto Söchtig, Max Deutschbein, Ada Broch, Edmund Erlemann, August Schlüter, James Loring Arnold, and Daniel E. Owen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lives of the English poets (Oxford university press, 1926), by Samuel Johnson and Arthur Waugh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. (Derby & Jackson, 1857), by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, and Peter Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of the early English poets; to which is prefixed, an Historical sketch of the rise and progress of the English poetry and language, with a biography of each poet, &c. (H. Washbourne, 1845), by George Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spenser's poem, entitled Colin Clouts come home againe, explained; with remarks upon the Amoretti sonnets, and also upon a few of the minor poems of other early English poets. (J. Miller, 1865), by Ethan Allen Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elizabethan lyrists and their poetry (G. G. Harrap, 1913), by Amy Cruse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nymphidia or The court of faery. (George Routledge & Sons, limited;, 1906), by Michael Drayton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakspere and his forerunners; studies in Elizabethan poetry and its development from early English. (Doubleday, Page, 1908), by Sidney Lanier and Henry Wysham Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson's Lives of the poets (Kegan paul, Trench, Trübner & co., 1896), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the English poets (Dent, 1925), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse of English poetrie. 1586. (A. Constable and Co., 1895), by William Webbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works (Printed by D. Buchanan, sold by him, & by W. Creech [etc.], 1800), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die englischen Kavalierpoeten und ihre Zeit. Ein Beitrag zur englischen Literaturgeschichte ... (R. Friedrich's Universitäts-Buchdruckerei, Inhaber Karl Gleiser, 1913), by Wilhelm Richter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Naturgefühl in der Dichtung Miltons. (C. Winter, 1914), by Anna von der Heide (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The reputation of the metaphysical poets during the age of Johnson and the romantic revival ([s.n.], 1925), by Arthur Hobart Nethercot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of the early English poets. (Printed for Edwards, Pall-Mall., 1790), by James Edwards, Thomas Rickaby, and George Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the English poets: and a criticism of their work. (Printed for R. Dodsley, 1795), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical (Printed by H. Hughs, 1779), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. (Printed for C. Bathurst, [etc.], 1783), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most eminent English poets (Derby & Jackson, 1859), by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, and Peter Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works (Published by Benjamin C. Buzby ... and Benjamin Warner ..., 1819), by Samuel Johnson, Laura W. Riley, Sylvanus Plympton, Abraham Fagan, Benjamin Warner, Benjamin C. Buzby, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. (London, etc., 1821), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the English poets : with critical observations on their works and lives of sundry eminent persons (John Sharpe ;, 1831), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the English poets (B. Tauchnitz, 1858), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnson's Lives of the poets (Macmillan and Co., 1878), by Samuel Johnson, R. B. Adam, Harold S. Wyatt, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Matthew Arnold, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the British poets. (N. Cooke, 1854), by Samuel Johnson and William Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of English poetry : from the close of the eleventh century to the commencement of the eighteenth century. : To which are prefixed two dissertations. I. Of the origin of romantic fiction in Europe. II. On the introduction of learning into England (Printed for, and sold by J. Dodsley, ... [et al.], 1774), by Thomas Warton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Personifikation unpersönlicher Hauptwörter bei den Vorläufern Shakespeares (Lyly, Kyd, Marlowe, Peele und Greene) Ein Beitrag zur Grammatik und Poetik der Elisabethinischen Zeit ... (R. Noske, 1904), by Martin Joseph Liening (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works (J. Sharpe, 1805), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland : and a criticism on their works (Printed by Pat Wogan, 1804), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works. To which are added the "Preface to Shakespeare," and the review of "The origin of evil." (F. Warne & co.;, 1870), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Naturgefühl in der englischen Dichtung im Zeitalter Miltons (C. Winter, 1915), by Anna von der Heide (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Specimens of the early English poets : to which is prefixed an historical sketch of the rise and progress of the English poetry and language, in three volumes (Printed by W. Bulmer for G. and W. Nicol, 1801), by George Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spenser's poem (J. Miller, 1865), by Ethan Allen Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works (Published for Benjamin Johnson ... and Samuel F. Bradford, 1803), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the English poets (Jones & Co., 1825., 1825), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lives of the most eminent English poets with critical observations on their works (James Christie, Holborn, 1822), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elizabethan lyric : a study (The Macmillan company, 1905), by John Erskine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The founding of English metre. (Columbia University Press, 1961), by John Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Tudor poetry, 1485-1547 (The Macmillan company, 1931), by John Milton Berdan (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Shakespeare to Pope; an inquiry into the causes and phenomena of the rise of classical poetry in England. (Dodd, Mead, 1885), by Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works. (Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most eminent English poets (Derby & Jackson, 1861), by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, and Peter Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the poets (G. Bell, 1890), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the English poets (Clarendon Press, 1905), by Samuel Johnson, Harold Spencer Scott, and George Birkbeck Norman Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the English poets (J. M. Dent & sons., ltd., 1925), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spenser's poem, entitled Colin Clouts come home againe, explained : with remarks upon the Amoretti sonnets, and also upon a few of the minor poems of other early English poets (J. Miller, 1980), by Ethan Allen Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley (Ginn, 1897), by William 1845-1893 Minto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Milton's Paradise lost books I & II (Copp Clark, 1878), by John Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets (Methuen and Co., 1896), by Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar, William Ernest Henley, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elizabethan lyric : a study (Columbia University Press, 1903), by John Erskine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jacobean poets (J. Murray, 1894., 1894), by Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works (S. E. Cassino, 1854), by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, and Peter Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the English poets (Clarendon Press, 1992), by Samuel Johnson, Harold Spencer Scott, and George Birkbeck Norman Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works (J.B. Lippincott, 1864), by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, and Peter Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works (J. Sawers, 1818), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse of English poetrie, 1586 ([A. Murray], 1871), by William Webbe and Edward Arber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of the early English poets : to which is prefixed an historical sketch of the rise and progress of the English poetry and language; in three volumes. (Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers ... J. Hatchard ..., 1803), by George Ellis, W. Nicol, G. Nicol, John Hatchard, William Bulmer, and Bulmer & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspere and his forerunners; studies in Elizabethan poetry and its development from early English (AMS Press, 1966), by Sidney Lanier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Elizabethan lyrists and their poetry (George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1919), by Amy Cruse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakspere and his forerunners : studies in Elizabethan poetry and its development from early English (Heinemann, 1903), by Sidney Lanier and Henry Wysham Lanier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zampogne e cornamuse nel secolo d'Elisabetta : per nozze Carocci-Foà, XXIX giugno MDCCCCII (Tip. Salani, 1902), by Amy A. Bernardy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Warton's history of English poetry (Alex. Murray and Son, 1870), by Thomas Warton and Amos Bronson Alcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The influence of the Latin elegists on English lyric poetry, 1600-1650, with particular reference to the works of Robert Herrick (Printed at the University press, 1932), by Pauline Aiken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century, by T. S. Eliot (Gutenberg ebook)

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