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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)
• 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)

• 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)

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)

• 391 (full serial archives)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010), by Catherine Léglu (PDF at PSU)
• Love Cures: Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Laine E. Doggett (PDF at PSU)

• An Anglo-Norman Reader (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by Jane Bliss (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Anglo-Norman Language and Literature (London: Oxford University Press, 1923), by Johan Vising (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Staging of the "Miracles de Nostre Dame Par Personnages" of MS. Cangé (New York: Institute of French Studies, Columbia University, c1933), by Dorothy Penn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Of the Tumbler of Our Lady and Other Miracles, Now Translated from the Middle French (London, Chatto and Windus, 1908), by Alice Kemp-Welch, contrib. by Gautier de Coinci (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old French Romances, Done Into English, trans. by William Morris, contrib. by Joseph Jacobs (Gutenberg text)
• Old-World Love Stories, From the Lays of Marie de France and Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends, trans. by Eugene Mason, contrib. by Marie de France, illust. by Reginald L. Knowles (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Aucassin and Nicolette and Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends, trans. by Eugene Mason (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• An Anglo-Norman Reader (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by Jane Bliss (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• R. Grossetete Carmina Anglo-Normannica: Robert Grossetete's Chasteau D'Amour; To Which Are Added 'La Vie de Sainte Marie Egyptienne' and an English Version of the Chasteau d'Amour (in Anglo-Norman French, and English; London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by J. R. Smith, 1852), by Robert Grosseteste, ed. by Matthew Cooke
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories (Paris: Charles Carrington, 1899), ed. by Antoine de La Sale, trans. by Robert B. Douglas, illust. by Léon Lebèque (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• R. Grossetete Carmina Anglo-Normannica: Robert Grossetete's Chasteau D'Amour; To Which Are Added 'La Vie de Sainte Marie Egyptienne' and an English Version of the Chasteau d'Amour (in Anglo-Norman French, and English; London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by J. R. Smith, 1852), by Robert Grosseteste, ed. by Matthew Cooke
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Anglo-Norman Metrical Chronicle of Geoffrey Gaimar: Printed for the First Time Entire From the Manuscript in the British Museum, With Illustrative Notes, and an Appendix Containing The Lay of Havelok, The Legend of Ernulf, and The Life of Herward (in French, with English notes; London: Pub. for the Caxton Society, 1850), by Geffrei Gaimar, ed. by Thomas Wright (multiple formats at Google)

• The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances (8 volumes; Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1908-1916), ed. by H. Oskar Sommer
  • Volume I (Lestoire del Saint Graal): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Lestoire de Merlin): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part III): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Les Aventures ou La Queste del Saint Graal; La Mort le Roi Arthur): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Supplement: Le Livre d'Artus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Index of Names and Places to Volumes I-VII): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.