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Lyric poetry

Here are entered general works. The lyric poetry of individual countries is entered under English poetry, French poetry, German poetry, etc.

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• Poetry

• Lyric poetry -- History and criticism
• Ballads
• Elegiac poetry
• Odes
• Songs
• Sonnets

• French Lyrics (with extensive English notes), ed. by Arthur Graves Canfield (Gutenberg text)
• The Lyric, by John Drinkwater (Gutenberg text)
• 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

• 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)

• Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Yung-Hee Kim (HTML at UC Press)

• Imperial Lyric: New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Leah Middlebrook (PDF at PSU)

• Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet: Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2019), by Bethan Roberts (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Genevieve Liveley and Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell (PDF at Ohio State)
• Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Jeri Blair Debrohun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Politics of Desire: Propertius IV (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Micaela Wakil Janan (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• 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)
• Catullus in Verona: A Reading of the Elegiac Libellus, Poems 65-116 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2003), by Marilyn B. Skinner (PDF at Ohio State)

• Sounding the Depths: Tradition and the Voices of History (2011), by Victor Grauer (HTML with commentary at blogspot.com)

• Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksong Traditions (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2017), by Roald Maliangkay
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• 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)

• Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Yung-Hee Kim (HTML at UC Press)

• The Wandering Scholars (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927), by Helen Waddell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Amelia Eileen Van Vleck (HTML at UC Press)

• Stories of the Scottish Border (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1929), by William Platt and Mrs. William Platt, illust. by Morris Meredith Williams (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Stories of the Scottish Border (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1917), by William Platt and Mrs. William Platt, illust. by Morris Meredith Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Norse King's Bridal: Translations from the Danish and Old Norse, with Original Ballads (London: A Melrose, 1912), ed. by E. M. Smith-Dampier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684, ed. by Charles Mackay (Gutenberg text)
• A Collection of Ballads, ed. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• A Garland of New Songs: Allen A-Dale; Paddy Carey; Ma Chere Amie; William Tell; Oh the Moment Was Sad; The Cottage on the Moor (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: Bess the Gawkie; Blythe Was She; Yorkshireman in London; Pray Goody (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: God Save the King; Rule, Britannia; The Jubilee; General Wolfe; The Trumpet Sounds a Victory (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: O How I Love Somebody; The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow; Of A' the Airts the Win' Can Blaw; The Banks of the Dee (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: Sweet Willy o' the Green; The Yorkshire Concert; The Yorkshire Irishman; The Woodland Maid (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Battle of the Nile; Tom Starboard' The Sailor's Adieu; Tom Bowling; True Courage; The Sea Boy (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Bay of Biscay; O, All's Well; Poor Joe the Marine; The Mid Watch; The Sea-Boy; The Sailor's Adieu (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Bonny Scotch Lad and His Bonnet So Blue; The Blackbird; My Sailor Dear Shall Guard my Pillow; Bundle of Truths (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Death of Nelson; Lochaber; The Yellow-Hair'd Laddie; Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad; The Yorkshire Concert (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Fairest of The Fair; Here's a Health, &c.; The Sea-Boy; Giles Scroggins' Ghost; My Only Jo' an' Dearie O; The Beautiful Maid; The Royal Love Letter (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Storm, by Mrs. Robinson; A Free Mason's Song; My Eye and Betty Martia (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: Tweed Side; My Nanie, O; Highland Laddie; Up in the Morning Early; Flowers of the Forest (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Golden Vanity; and The Green Bed (New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1899), contrib. by S. Baring-Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard, illust. by Pamela Colman Smith (HTML and page images at comcast.net)
• Real Sailor-Songs (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891), ed. by John Ashton
  • PDF files at Rochester
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Rhymes a la Mode, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Rakish Rhymer: or Fancy Man's Own Songster and Reciter ("Lutetia" small limited edition; 1917) (HTML and PDF page images at horntip.com)
• Songs and Ballads of the West: A Collection Made From the Mouths of the People (with piano arrangements; London: Methuen and Co., ca. 1891), by S. Baring-Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Songs of Charles Dibdin, Chronologically Arranged, With Notes, Historical, Biographical, and Critical; and The Music of the Best and Most Popular of the Melodies, with New Piano-Forte Accompaniments; To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author (2 volumes; London: How and Parsons, 1842), by Charles Dibdin, contrib. by George Hogarth
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (texts): PDF at imslp.org
• The Songs of Charles Dibdin, Chronologically Arranged, With Notes, Historical, Biographical, and Critical; and The Music of the Best and Most Popular of the Melodies, with New Piano-Forte Accompaniments; To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author (2 volumes; London: G. H. Davidson, 1848), by Charles Dibdin, contrib. by George Hogarth
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Songs of the West: Folk Songs of Devon and Cornall, Collected From the Mouths of the People (5th edition, with musical scores included; London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by S. Baring-Gould, H. Fleetwood Sheppard, and F. W. Bussell, ed. by Cecil J. Sharp (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Collection of Ballads, ed. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

• Heroic Ballads of Servia, Translated Into English Verse (Boston: Sherman, French, and Company, 1913), ed. by George Rapall Noyes and Leonard Bacon (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Legenden en Romances van Spanje (in Dutch; Zutphen: W. J. Thieme, n.d.), by Lewis Spence, trans. by S. Vos-Goudsmit, illust. by Otway McCannell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Legends and Romances of Spain, by Lewis Spence (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Legends and Romances of Spain (London and Sydney: G. G. Harrap and Co., c1920), by Lewis Spence, illust. by Otway McCannell
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex: Mrs. Mary Blaize, by Oliver Goldsmith, illust. by Randolph Caldecott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Somewhere (piano-vocal setting by Foster of a poem by Barnes; New York: W. A. Pond and Co., c1917), by Fay Foster and Djuna Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)

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