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Love poetry, European

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• European love poetry

• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry, by R. A. Shoaf (HTML at ufl.edu)

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)

• 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)

• 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
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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 metseditions.org)

• 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

• 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)
• The Amores, or, Amours: Literally Translated into English Prose, With Copious Notes (1885), by Ovid, trans. by Henry T. Riley (Gutenberg text)
• 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)