Love poetry -- History and criticism
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Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Michael Bryson and Arpi Movsesian (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Love and Ethics in Gower's Confessio Amantis (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Peter Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Heather Dubrow (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Swinburne's Medievalism: A Study in Victorian Love Poetry (1988), by Antony H. Harrison (HTML at Victorian Web)
- Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), ed. by Ellen Greene (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- The Book of Delight, and Other Papers, by Israel Abrahams (Gutenberg text)
- A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome: Readings in Propertius and His Genre (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by W. R. Johnson (PDF at Ohio State)
- Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Ronnie Ancona (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Love poetry- I Open Fire: Poems (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2014), by David Pol (PDF with commentary at punctumbooks.com)
- Coloured Stars: Versions of Fifty Asiatic Love Poems (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1918), ed. by E. Powys Mathers (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Erotia (London: E. Macdonald, c1917), by Edmund Hennesley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- For Eager Lovers (New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922), by Genevieve Taggard (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Garden of Bright Waters: One Hundred And Twenty Asiatic Love Poems, ed. by E. Powys Mathers (Gutenberg text)
- The Garden of Love: Flowers Gathered from the Poets (New York: Hodder and Stoughton; G. H. Doran company, 1912), ed. by May Byron (page images at HathiTrust)
- Underwoods (London: Cambridge University Press Warehouse, 1905), by Ben Jonson
- Amours de Voyage, by Arthur Hugh Clough (Gutenberg text)
- The Festival of Love, or A Collection of Cytherean Poems (fourth edition; London: M. Smith, ca. 1812) (PDF at horntip.com)
- India's Love Lyrics, by Laurence Hope (Gutenberg text)
- Burle e Arti Magiche di Giovanni Boccaccio: per Nozze D'Ancona-Cardoso, XXVIII giugno MCMIIIJ (in Italian; Castelfiorentino: Tip. Giovannelli e Carpitelli, 1904), by Orazio Bacci
- Lover's Credo: Poems of Love, by Corliss Lamont (HTML at corliss-lamont.org)
- Riley Love-Lyrics, by James Whitcomb Riley, illust. by W. B. Dyer
- Riley Love-Lyrics (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1921), by James Whitcomb Riley, illust. by Will Vawter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Songs of the Unblind Cupid (c1899), by J. Wm. Lloyd (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Lover's Diary, by Gilbert Parker (Gutenberg text)
- A Lover's Diary: Songs In Sequence (Cambridge, MA and Chicago: Stone and Kimball; London: Methuen and Co., 1894), by Gilbert Parker
- Look! We Have Come Through! (London: Chatto and Windus, 1917), by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)
- Sonnets From the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Gutenberg text and audio)
- Early English Romances, Done into Modern English by Edith Rickert: Romances of Love, by Edith Rickert (illustrated HTML at elfinspell.com)
- The Copy of a Letter, Lately Written in Meeter by a Yonge Gentilwoman to Her Unconstant Lover, by Isabella Whitney (HTML at Virginia)
- Confessio Amantis, by John Gower (HTML at Michigan)
- Moral Love Songs and Laments, ed. by Susanna Fein (HTML at Rochester)
- Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Ignacio Navarrete (HTML at UC Press)
- Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Heather Dubrow (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- 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
- Philodemos = Philodemos: His Twenty-Nine Extant Poems, by Philodemus, trans. by George Economou (HTML at Light and Dust)
- The New Life (La Vita Nuova), by Dante Alighieri, trans. by A. S. Kline (HTML at poetryintranslation.com)
- The New Life of Dante Alighieri, by Dante Alighieri, ed. by Charles Eliot Norton (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Ovid, Amores (Book 1) (from the Dickinson College Commentaries series; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by Ovid, ed. by William Turpin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Heroides and Amores (in English and Latin; London: W. Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1914), by Ovid, trans. by Grant Showerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Poems of Catullus (New York: Covici-Friede, c1931), by Gaius Valerius Catullus, trans. by Horace Gregory, illust. by Zhenya Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
- Carmina, by Gaius Valerius Catullus, trans. by Richard Francis Burton (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus (London: Printed for the translators, 1894), by Gaius Valerius Catullus, trans. by Richard Francis Burton and Leonard C. Smithers (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Poems and Fragments of Catullus, Translated in the Metres of the Original (London: J. Murray, 1871), by Gaius Valerius Catullus, trans. by Robinson Ellis (Gutenberg text)
- Il Clarissimo Poeta Ovidio De arte Amandí Libro Primo Chominza (Hain 12226, in Italian; printed in Italy before 1480), by Ovid (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Collections)
- Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign (originally published 1992; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger, illust. by Joan Krieger (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- 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
- The Golden Verses of Pythagoras (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Pythagoras, ed. by Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, trans. by Nayán Louise Redfield (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Books and Habits From the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, by Lafcadio Hearn, ed. by John Erskine (Gutenberg text)
- 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)
- Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)
- The Flowering Thorn: International Ballad Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), ed. by Thomas A. McKean (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Poetic Origins and the Ballad (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Louise Pound (PDF at unl.edu)
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