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• Laudatory poetry, Greek
• Greek poetry -- History and criticism
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• The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy (originally published 1991; electronic edition c2013), by Leslie Kurke (Javascript-dependent page images at escholarship.org)

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• Bacchylides: A Prose Translation (London and New York: Macmillan, 1898), by Bacchylides, trans. by Edward Poste
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Extant Odes of Pindar, Translated Into English, With Introduction and Short Notes (1904), by Pindar, trans. by Ernest Myers (Gutenberg text)
• Bacchylides: The Poems and Fragments (main text in Greek, with English notes and prose translation; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1905), by Bacchylides, trans. by R. C. Jebb
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Reden und Vorträge (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1901), by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Reden und Vorträge (third edition, in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1913), by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lyra Graeca: Being the Remains of All the Greek Lyric Poets from Eumelus to Timotheus, Excepting Pindar (Loeb Classical Library series edition, in Greek and English: 3 volumes; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922-1927), ed. by J. M. Edmonds
  • Volume I (including Terpander; Alcman; Sappho; Alcaeus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (including Stesichorus; Ibycus; Anacreon; Simonides): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (including Corinna; Bacchylides; Timotheus; Anonymous Fragments; Folk-Songs; Scolia; An Account of Greek Lyric Poetry): multiple formats at archive.org

• In Her Own Words: The Life and Poetry of Aelia Eudocia (Hellenic Studies 80; Washington: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020), by Brian P. Sowers (HTML with commentary at Harvard)
• Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets (New York: J. Miller, 1864), by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• 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)

• Poètes Grecs Contemporains (in French; Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1881), by Juliette Adam
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), ed. by Ellen Greene (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy (originally published 1991; electronic edition c2013), by Leslie Kurke (Javascript-dependent page images at escholarship.org)

• The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy (originally published 1991; electronic edition c2013), by Leslie Kurke (Javascript-dependent page images at escholarship.org)

• Theft! A History of Music (2017), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (PDF with commentary at Duke)
• Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
• An Outline-History of Music (New York: Barnes and Noble, c1947), by Hugh Milton Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Melodious (third edition, augmented; London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin, and Other Musical Essays (New Yor: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Henry T. Finck (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students (New York: G. Schirmer, c1907), by Waldo Selden Pratt (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
• Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)

• The Politics of Shelley: History, Theory, Form (2015), ed. by Matthew C. Borushko (illustrated HTML at romantic-circles.org)

• Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c1998), by Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (page images at HathiTrust)

• Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Gustavo Pérez Firmat (page images at HathiTrust)

• Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kim Marra and Robert A. Schanke (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), ed. by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
• The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

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