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• French literature -- History and criticism
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• Epic poetry, French -- History and criticism
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• French poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism
• French poetry -- 17th century -- History and criticism
• French poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• French poetry -- To 1500 -- History and criticism

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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 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

• 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; US access only

• 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)

• 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

• Landmarks in French Literature (1912), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)
• Literary Rambles in France (from the 1907 Archibald Constable edition, with added illustrations), by Matilda Betham-Edwards (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Nouveaux Prétextes: Réflexions sur Quelques Points de Littérature et de Morale (8th edition, in French; Paris: Mercure de France, 1921), by André Gide (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prétextes: Réflexions sur Quelques Points de Littérature et de Morale (7th edition, in French; Paris: Mercure de France, 1919), by André Gide (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Short History of French Literature (fourth edition; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1892), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)
• Books and Characters, French and English (c1922), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)
• Figures of Several Centuries (London: Constable and Co., 1917), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text and page images)
• L'Académie de Castres et la Société de Mlle de Scudéry, 1648-1670 (in French; Castres: Imp. Abeilhou, 1890), by Louis Barbaza
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Women of the French Salons, by Amelia Gere Mason (Gutenberg text)

• Études de Lettres (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Lettres sur Quelques Écrits de ce Temps (in French; 1749-1754), by Elie-Catherine Fréron (full serial archives)

• Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (PDF at Ohio State)

• Love and Language: A Study of the Classical French Moralist Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by Louise K. Horowitz (PDF at Ohio State)

• A History of the French Novel (to the Close of the 19th Century) (2 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1917-1919), by George Saintsbury
  • Volume I (From the Beginning to 1800): Gutenberg text and page images
  • Volume I (From the Beginning to 1800): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (From 1800 to 1900): Gutenberg text and page images
  • Volume II (From 1800 to 1900): multiple formats at archive.org

• Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (PDF at Ohio State)

• Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (PDF at Ohio State)

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