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• Hunting -- Poetry
• Hunting -- Early works to 1800
• Poetry -- Early works to 1800

• Della Caccia: Poema (in Italian; Bergamo: C. Ventura, 1591), by Erasmo da Valvasone
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• The Chase: A Poem (London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1802), by William Somerville, illust. by John Bewick and Thomas Bewick (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• The Huntsman, by Nicholas Cox (HTML at Wayback Machiine)
• The Boke of Saint Albans (London: E. Stock, ca. 1901), by Juliana Berners, contrib. by William Blades
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Huntsman, by Nicholas Cox (HTML at Wayback Machiine)

• The Huntsman, by Nicholas Cox (HTML at Wayback Machiine)

• The Boke of Saint Albans (London: E. Stock, ca. 1901), by Juliana Berners, contrib. by William Blades
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Huntsman, by Nicholas Cox (HTML at Wayback Machiine)

• Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie: Containing the Necessary, Rational, and Universal Rules for Epick, Dramatick, and the Other Sorts of Poetry (London: Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman, 1674), by René Rapin, trans. by Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy (2 volumes (each also with "Arte of English Poesie" title page); London: Printed for R. Triphook, 1811-1815), ed. by Joseph Haslewood, contrib. by George Puttenham, George Gascoigne, William Webbe, King James I of England, John Harington, Francis Meres, Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Edmund Bolton, Edmund Spenser, and Gabriel Harvey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• The Art of Poetry: The Poetical Treatises of Horace, Vida, and Boileau, With the Translations by Howes, Pitt, and Soame (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1892), ed. by Albert S. Cook, trans. by Francis Howes, Christopher Pitt, and William Soame, contrib. by Horace, Marco Girolamo Vida, and Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Arte of English Poesie, by George Puttenham
  • HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Toronto
• The Defence of Poesie, by Philip Sidney (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• A Defence of Poesie and Poems, by Philip Sidney, contrib. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• A Defence of Ryme, by Samuel Daniel (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• An Essay on Criticism, by Alexander Pope
  • HTML at jacklynch.net
  • Gutenberg text
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Critical Essays of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1725 (1915), ed. by W. H. Durham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pierce Penilesse: His Supplication to the Divell, by Thomas Nash (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Quodlibets, by Robert Hayman (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Aphorisms on Man (second edition; London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Johnson, 1789), by Johann Caspar Lavater, ed. by Henry Fuseli (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Introduction to Wysedome (London: T. Berthelet, 1544), by Juan Luis Vives, trans. by Richard Morison, contrib. by Desiderius Erasmus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Table-Talk of John Selden (second edition; London: J. R. Smith, 1856), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Weller Singer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Table Talk of John Selden (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Harvey Reynolds (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)

• The Conquest of Canäan: A Poem, in Eleven Books (Hartford: Printed by E. Babcock, 1785), by Timothy Dwight
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• The Botanic Garden: A Poem, In Two Parts (2 parts in 1 volume; New York: T. and J. Swords, 1807), by Erasmus Darwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts, With Philosophical Notes, by Erasmus Darwin
  • Part I: Gutenberg text
  • Part II: Gutenberg text

• The Conquest of Canäan: A Poem, in Eleven Books (Hartford: Printed by E. Babcock, 1785), by Timothy Dwight
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• Anglorum Praelia (in Latin and English), by Christopher Ocland, ed. by Dana F. Sutton (HTML at the Philological Museum)

• The Conquest of Canäan: A Poem, in Eleven Books (Hartford: Printed by E. Babcock, 1785), by Timothy Dwight
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• The History of Joseph: A Poem in Ten Books, by Elizabeth Singer Rowe (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Conquest of Canäan: A Poem, in Eleven Books (Hartford: Printed by E. Babcock, 1785), by Timothy Dwight
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• The Tragedies, Gathered by Ihon Bochas, of All Such Princes as Fell From Theyr Estates Throughe the Mutability of Fortune Since the Creacion of Adam (this copy appears to have the title page of "A Memorial of Suche Princes", a related suppressed publication, rather than this work's intended title page; London: J. Wayland, ca. 1554), by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by John Lydgate, contrib. by William Baldwin (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Barley-Breake: or, A Warning for Wantons, by W. N., Gent. (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• The Botanic Garden: A Poem, In Two Parts (2 parts in 1 volume; New York: T. and J. Swords, 1807), by Erasmus Darwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts, With Philosophical Notes, by Erasmus Darwin
  • Part I: Gutenberg text
  • Part II: Gutenberg text

• The Old, Old, Very Old Man: or, The Age and Long Life of Thomas Par, the Son of John Parr of Winnington (London: Henry Goffon, 1635), by John Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Schoole of Abuse, by Stephen Gosson (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• The Rewarde of Wickednesse (London: Imprinted by W. Williamson, ca. 1574), by Richard Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Gest of Robyn Hode, ed. by Stephen Knight and Thomas H. Ohlgren (HTML at metseditions.org)

• A Poem on the African Slave Trade: Addressed to Her Own Sex (two parts; Dublin: J. Jones, 1792), by M. Birket
  • Part I (second edition): HTML at brycchancarey.com
  • Part II: HTML at brycchancarey.com

• Phthisiologia: A Poem Miscellaneously-Descriptive and Didactical, in Four Parts; To Which are Prefixed Certain Preliminary, and Phisio-Medical Observations, and Admonitions (London: Printed for the author and sold by T. Boozey, 1798) (page images at NIH)