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Epic poetry, French

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• French epic poetry

• Ami and Amile: A Medieval Tale of Friendship (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c1996), trans. by Samuel N. Rosenberg and Samuel Danon, contrib. by David Konstan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford "Roland" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Eleanor Webster Bulatkin (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Song of Roland, trans. by Jessie Crosland (PDF at In Parentheses)
• The Song of Roland, trans. by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• The Song of Roland, trans. by John O'Hagan
  • HTML at Fordham
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Song of Roland, Translated Into English Verse (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1913), trans. by Arthur S. Way
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• French Lyrics (with extensive English notes), ed. by Arthur Graves Canfield (Gutenberg text)

• Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)

• The Knot of Artifice: A Poetic of the French Lyric in the Early 17th Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by David Lee Rubin (PDF at Ohio State)

• Word and Figure: The Language of Nineteenth-Century French Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Carol de Dobay Rifelj (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mallarmé Devant Ses Contemporains, 1875-1899 (in French; Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2011), ed. by Peter Sutherland Hambly (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• French Poetry and Modern Industry, 1830-1870: A Study of the Treatment of Industry and Mechanical Power in French Poetry During the Reigns of Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages v6; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927), by Elliott Mansfield Grant (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Eschatological Subjects: Divine and Literary Judgment in Fourteenth-Century French Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by J. M. Moreau (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Idea of Poetry in France, From Houdar de la Motte to Baudelaire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958), by Margaret Gilman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Sylvia Huot (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Eschatological Subjects: Divine and Literary Judgment in Fourteenth-Century French Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by J. M. Moreau (PDF at Ohio State)
• Weaving Narrative: Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Monica L. Wright (PDF at PSU)
• From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Sylvia Huot (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by E. Jane Burns (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Ailleurs (French-language literary journal, 1963-1966) (full serial archives)
• Poesia (Futurist poetical magazine in Italian and French, issues online for 1905-1909 and 1920) (partial serial archives)

• From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Sylvia Huot (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Oysters, Nightingales and Cooking Pots: Selected Poetry and Prose in Translation (Heslington, UK: White Rose University Press, c2018), by Tristan Corbière, ed. by Richard Hibbitt and Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe, trans. by Christopher Pilling (multiple formats with commentary at White Rose University press)
• The Book of French Songs, Translated by John Oxenford, Esq.; To Which is Added Miss Costello's Early French Poetry (New York: Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, ca. 1872), trans. by John Oxenford and Louisa Stuart Costello (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Lais of Marie de France: A Verse Translation (selection of eight of the twelve), by Marie de France, ed. by Judith P. Shoaf (PDF files with commentary at ufl.edu)

• The Book of the Duke of True Lovers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908), by Christine de Pisan, ed. by Alice Kemp-Welch, trans. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Oxford reprint: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Hymnen an das Leben (in German; Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, ca. 1912), by Emile Verhaeren, trans. by Stefan Zweig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Recherches sur les Rapports des Chansons des Geste et de L'Épopée Chevaleresque Italienne, Avec Textes Inédits (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et Ch. Leclerc, 1887), by Ferdinand Castets
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some material missing
• Ami and Amile: A Medieval Tale of Friendship (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c1996), trans. by Samuel N. Rosenberg and Samuel Danon, contrib. by David Konstan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aliscans: Chanson de Geste, Pub. d'Après le Manuscrit de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal et à l'Aide de Cinq Autres Manuscrits (in French; Paris: A. Franck, 1870), ed. by F. Guessard and Anatole de Montaiglon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Légendes Populaires et Chansons de Geste en Savoie (in French; Paris: Bureaux de la Revue des Idées, 1910), by Arnold van Gennep (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Renaud of Montauban (London: G. Allen, 1897), ed. by Robert Steele, contrib. by William Caxton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Chroniques Parisiennes; Ennuis Non Rimés (in French; Paris: La Connaissance, 1920), by Jules Laforgue, ed. by André Malraux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nursery Friends From France (Chicago and Toronto: The Book House for Children, c1927), trans. by Olive Beaupré Miller, illust. by Maud Petersham and Miska Petersham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes (in French; Paris: Société d'Éditions Littéraires et Artistiques, 1900), by Natalie Clifford Barney, illust. by Carolus-Duran and Alice Pike Barney
  • scribbed-in reprint: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • scribbled-in reprint (different copy from above): page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Epic and Saga: Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel; The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (Harvard Classics v49; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1910), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, trans. by Francis Barton Gummere, John O'Hagan, Whitley Stokes, Eiríkr Magnússon, and William Morris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• National Epics, by Kate Milner Rabb (Gutenberg text)

• The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story (1913), by H. A. Guerber, contrib. by J. Berg Esenwein (Gutenberg text)

• The Epic: An Essay, by Lascelles Abercrombie (Gutenberg text)
• Corneille, Tasso, and Modern Poetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by A. Donald Sellstrom (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature (London: Macmillan, 1931), by W. P. Ker (Gutenberg text)
• Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry, by John Dryden (Gutenberg text)
• Four Essays (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages v3; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917), by Murray Anthony Potter (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Epic of Gilgamish (1928), ed. by R. Campbell Thompson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Ishtar and Izdubar: The Epic of Babylon (1884 translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh), ed. by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic, on the Basis of Recently Discovered Texts (Pennsylvania and Yale tablets, with translation and commentary; New Haven: Yale University Press, c1920), ed. by Morris Jastrow and Albert T. Clay (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)

• Beowulf (multiple editions)

• Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library edition; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), by Hesiod and Homer, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library edition; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by Hesiod and Homer, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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