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• Epic poetry, Greek
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• The Authoress of the Odyssey (second edition, 1922), by Samuel Butler (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

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• 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

• A Complete Concordance to the Odyssey and Hymns of Homer; To Which is Added a Concordance to the Parallel Passages in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Hymns (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1880), by Henry Dunbar
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Homer: The Poetry of the Past (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Andrew Laughlin Ford (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Richard Heitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Mark Buchan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by James Joseph Clauss (HTML at UC Press)
• The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Laura M. Slatkin (HTML at UC Press)
• The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic, by Douglas Frame (HTML at Harvard)
• The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars: Celestial Sex, Earthly Destruction, and Dramatic Sublimation in Homer's Odyssey, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• Homer and History (London: Macmillan, 1915), by Walter Leaf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homerische Untersuchungen (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sprachliche Untersuchungen zu Homer (in German; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1916), by Jacob Wackernagel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Unity of Homer (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1921), by John A. Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Homer and His Age, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, by Casey Dué (HTML at Harvard)
• Penelope in the Odyssey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916), by J. W. Mackail (page images at HathiTrust)

• Homeric Questions, by Gregory Nagy (HTML at stoa.org)

• The Odyssey, Abridged (third edition, c2012), by Homer, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Odyssey (third edition, 2010), by Homer, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Iliad (third edition, 2012), by Homer, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Iliad, Abridged (c2008), by Homer, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Iliad of Homer, Books IX and X (in Greek, with English notes; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1902), by Homer, ed. by J. C. Lawson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (English-language portion only), ed. by Douglas B. Killings, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, contrib. by Hesiod and Homer (Gutenberg text)
• The Odyssey, by Homer, trans. by A. T. Murray (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Odyssey of Homer, by Homer, trans. by Alexander Pope (Gutenberg text)
• The Odyssey of Homer, Done Into English Prose, by Homer, trans. by S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Odyssey, Rendered Into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original (London: A. C. Fifield, n.d.), by Homer, trans. by Samuel Butler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Odyssey, Rendered Into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original (based on the second edition of 1921), by Homer, ed. by Henry Festing Jones, trans. by Samuel Butler (Gutenberg text)
• The Odysseys of Homer (London: J. R. Smith, 1857), by Homer, trans. by George Chapman (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Iliad, by Homer, trans. by Samuel Butler (Gutenberg text)
• The Iliad, by Homer, trans. by Walter Leaf, Andrew Lang, and Ernest Myers (Gutenberg text)
• The Iliad, by Homer, ed. by Theodore Alois Buckley, trans. by Alexander Pope, illust. by John Flaxman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Iliad, by Homer, trans. by A. T. Murray (Javascript-dependent HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Iliad of Homer, Literally Translated, With Explanatory Notes (London: Bell and Daldy, 1873), by Homer, trans. by Theodore Alois Buckley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse, by Homer, trans. by Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley Derby (Gutenberg text)
• The Iliad of Homer: Rendered Into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), by Homer, trans. by Samuel Butler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Iliad of Homer: Rendered Into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.), trans. by Samuel Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Iliad of Homer, Translated Into English Blank Verse (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860), by Homer, ed. by Robert Southey, trans. by William Cowper, contrib. by M. A. Dwight (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, Never Before in Any Language Truly Translated, With a Comment on Some of His Chief Places (third edition, 2 volumes; London: J. R. Smith, 1888), by Homer, ed. by Richard Hooper, trans. by George Chapman
  • both volumes; HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Odyssey of Homer (Everyman's Library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.), by Homer, trans. by William Cowper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• L'Iliade (in French), by Homer, trans. by Leconte de Lisle (Gutenberg text and RTF)

• Bad Ideas About Writing (Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Libraries Digital Publishing Institute, c2017), ed. by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Peggy Kamuf (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Work of Authorship (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014), ed. by Mireille M. M. van Eechoud (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• A Vindication of the Press (1718) (Augustan Reprint Society publication #29; Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1951), by Daniel Defoe, contrib. by Clinton Williams (Gutenberg text)
• The Psychology of Writing Success (New York: The Business bourse, 1933), ed. by J. George Frederick, contrib. by A. A. Brill, Thyra Samter Winslow, Mary Austin, Floyd Dell, and Thomas H. Uzzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Act of Writing: A Media Theory Approach, by Daniel Chandler (Word with commentary in the UK)
• Anonymity: An Enquiry (Hogarth Essays #12; London: L. and V. Woolf, 1925), by E. M. Forster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Art of Short Story Writing (Cincinnati: Publishers Syndicate, 1910), by George Randolph Chester
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Art of Story Writing: Facts and Information About Literary Work of Practical Value of Both Amateur and Professional Writers (New York: Sully and Kleinteich, 1913), by Nathaniel C. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Author's Craft, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Author's Year Book and Guide for 1904: Including Some 600 Names and Addresses of Publishers and Publications to Whom Manuscripts May be Sold (1904), ed. by W. E. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond Life: Dizain des Demiurges (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by James Branch Cabell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Craftsmanship of Writing (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Frederic Taber Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• If You Don't Write Fiction (New York: R. M. McBride Co., 1920), by Charles Phelps Cushing (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
• Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Percival Pollard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Side Lights (London: T. F. Unwin, 1893), by James Runciman, ed. by John F. Runciman, contrib. by Grant Allen and W. T. Stead (Gutenberg text)
• The Writer's Book: A Compendium of Information Upon Matters Pertaining to the Trade of Authorship (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, c1922), by James Knapp Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write and Sell a Novel (revised from Why Write a Novel?; New York: Woodford Press, 1948), by Jack Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• The Art of Inventing Characters (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, 1922), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books Fatal to Their Authors, by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
• Conjectures on Original Composition, by Edward Young (HTML at Toronto)
• Essays in the Art of Writing, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• My First Book (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), contrib. by Walter Besant, William Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, Israel Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Williams Buchanan, and Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-Known American Authors as to Their Literary Beginnings (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Pub. for the Authors' League of America by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), ed. by Gelett Burgess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Principles of Success in Literature, by George Henry Lewes (Gutenberg text)
• The Principles of Success in Literature (London et al.: W. Scott Pub. Co., ca. 1898), by George Henry Lewes, ed. by T. Sharper Knowlson
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  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Stories Editors Buy and Why (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), ed. by Jean Wick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Crip Authorship: Disability as Method, ed. by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez (multiple formats with commentary at NYU Press)

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