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• Irish literature -- History and criticism
• Epic literature -- History and criticism
• History and criticism

• Early Bardic Literature, Ireland, by Standish O'Grady (Gutenberg text)
• Standish O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, ca. 1918), by Standish O'Grady, contrib. by Ernest Augustus Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Fled Bricrend, the Feast of Bricriu: An Early Gaelic Saga Transcribed From Older Mss. into the Book of the Dun Cow (Irish texts Society v2; London: D. Nutt, 1899), ed. by George Henderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Deirdre of the Sorrows, by J. M. Synge (Gutenberg text)

• The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (London: David Nutt, 1904), trans. by L. Winifred Faraday (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, trans. by Lady Gregory, contrib. by W. B. Yeats (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, trans. by Lady Gregory, contrib. by W. B. Yeats
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Heroic Romances of Ireland, ed. by Arthur Herbert Leahy (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Heroic Romances of Ireland, ed. by Arthur Herbert Leahy (Gutenberg text)
• Old Celtic Romances, Translated from the Gaelic (second edition; London: D. Nutt, 1894), trans. by P. W. Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Celtic Romances, Translated from the Gaelic (Dublin: Education Co. of Ireland; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1920), trans. by P. W. Joyce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living (main text, plus some editorial material), ed. by Kuno Meyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Beginnings of the Irish Revival (Groningen, Netherlands: P. Noordhoff, 1933), by Rebecca Pauline Christine Brugsma (page images at delpher.nl)
• Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, Delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland, During the Sessions of 1855 and 1856 (Dublin: W. Hinch and P. Traynoe, 1878), by Eugene O'Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish, by Lady Gregory, contrib. by Douglas Hyde (Gutenberg text)

• The Irish Review (1911-1914) (full serial archives)

• Prolegomena to the Study of the Later Irish Bards, 1200-1500 (extract from the Proceedings of the British Academy, 1911), by Edmund Crosby Quiggin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Changing Ireland: Literary Backgrounds of the Irish Free State, 1889-1922 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1924), by Norreys Jephson O'Conor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Changing Ireland: Literary Backgrounds of the Irish Free State, 1889-1922 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1924), by Norreys Jephson O'Conor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Margaret H. Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Lindgren Wofford (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Ann W. Astell (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theft! A History of Music (2017), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (PDF with commentary at Duke)
• Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
• An Outline-History of Music (New York: Barnes and Noble, c1947), by Hugh Milton Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Melodious (third edition, augmented; London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin, and Other Musical Essays (New Yor: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Henry T. Finck (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students (New York: G. Schirmer, c1907), by Waldo Selden Pratt (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
• Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)

• The Politics of Shelley: History, Theory, Form (2015), ed. by Matthew C. Borushko (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c1998), by Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (page images at HathiTrust)

• Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Gustavo Pérez Firmat (page images at HathiTrust)

• Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), ed. by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
• The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Horizons of Enchantment: Essays in the American Imaginary (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2011), by Lene Johannessen (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• USA Literature in Brief (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), by Kathryn VanSpanckeren (PDF at state.gov)
• Outline of American Literature (revised edition; Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), by Kathryn VanSpanckeren (PDF with commentary at america.gov)
• Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Ilan Stavans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Renata R. Mautner Wasserman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of Epistemology (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c1991), by Ronald E. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Displacing Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives in Literature and Culture (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), ed. by Ronald R. Butters, John M. Clum, and Michael Moon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Examined Life: Family, Community, Work in American Literature (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1989), by Jim Wayne Miller (PDF at appstate.edu)
• Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Daniel T. O'Hara (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Americanist (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Daniel Aaron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1986), by Mark Krupnick (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• American Literature (Richmond, VA: Johnson Pub. Co., c1921), by John Calvin Metcalf
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, by Bliss Perry (Gutenberg text)
• The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters (New Haben: Yale University Press; et al., 1918), by Bliss Perry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Book of Prefaces (fourth edition; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text)
• History of American Literature, by Reuben Post Halleck (Gutenberg text)
• Initial Studies in American Letters (New York: Chautauqua Press, 1891), by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)
• Letters and Leadership (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918), by Van Wyck Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature and Life, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Prejudices: Fourth Series (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1924), by H. L. Mencken (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Primer of American Literature (new and revised edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883), by Charles F. Richardson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Primer of American Literature (new and revised edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1891), by Charles F. Richardson (page images at Pitt)
• A Student's History of American Literature, by William Edward Simonds (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
• A Student's History of American Literature (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1909), by William Edward Simonds
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Studies in Classic American Literature (New York: T. Seltzer, 1923), by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)
• Crossing the Shadow-Line: The Literature of Estrangement (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Martin Bock (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
• The Negro Character in American Literature (Humanistic Studies v4 #1; Lawrence, KS: Dept. of Journalism Press, 1926), by John Herbert Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art, Literature, and the Drama (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Art, Literature, and the Drama (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors (8 volumes; Buffalo, NY: Moulton Pub. Co., 1901-05), ed. by Charles Wells Moulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature and Art (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Magazine Writing and the New Literature (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1908), by Henry Mills Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Prose Writers of America; With a Survey of the History, Condition, and Prospects of American Literature (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847), ed. by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes (based on editions by New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1907-1921), ed. by Adolphus William Ward, A. R. Waller, William P. Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (HTML at Bartleby)
• Literary Byways (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1898), by William Andrews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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