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• Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (Oxford, UK: Horace Hart, printer to the University, 1906), by W. W. Greg (Gutenberg text)
• Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (London: A. H. Bullen, 1906), by W. W. Greg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (Oxford, UK: Horace Hart, printer to the University, 1906), by W. W. Greg (Gutenberg text)
• Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (London: A. H. Bullen, 1906), by W. W. Greg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Victorian Pastoral: Tennyson, Hardy, and the Subversion of Forms (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Owen Schur (PDF at Ohio State)

• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google; US access only)

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• Amoretti and Epithalamion, by Edmund Spenser (HTML at Virginia)
• Country Sentiment, by Robert Graves (Gutenberg text)

• Six Eclogues from William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (First Collection, 1844) (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Barr Smith Press, 2011), by William Barnes, ed. by T. L. Burton (PDF and audio recordings at Adelaide Press)
• The Affectionate Shepherd (London: Reprinted for the Percy Society by T. Richards, 1845), by Richard Barnfield, ed. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (Gutenberg text)
• Wild Flowers: or, Pastoral and Local Poetry (London: Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1806), by Robert Bloomfield (Gutenberg text)
• Daemonologia: A Discourse on Witchcraft As it Was Acted in the Family of Mr. Edward Fairfax, of Fuyston, in the County of York, in the year 1621, Along With the Only two Eclogues of the Same Author Known to be in Existence (Harrogate: R. Ackrill, 1882), by Edward Fairfax, ed. by William Grainge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose With an Introductory Essay, by Theocritus, Bion of Phlossa, and Moschus, ed. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

• Poetas Bucólicos Griegos: Traducidos en Verso Castellano por Ipandro Acaico, con Notas Explicativas, Críticas y Filológicas (in Spanish, with some Greek portions; Mexico: Imp. de I. Escalante, 1877), by Theocritus, Bion of Phlossa, and Moschus, ed. by Ignacio Montes de Oca y Obregón (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arcadia: Secondo i Manoscritti e Le Prime Stampe (in Italian; Turin et al.: E. Loecher, 1888), by Jacopo Sannazaro, ed. by Michele Scherillo
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Eclogues (in English and Latin), by Virgil, trans. by J. W. MacKail (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Eclogues, by Virgil, trans. by James Rhoades (HTML at Internet Classics)

• 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
  • 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
• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• The Home of the Eddic Poems, With Especial Reference to the Helgi-Lays (revised edition; London: D. Nutt, 1899), by Sophus Bugge, trans. by William Henry Schofield (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• The Epic: An Essay, by Lascelles Abercrombie (Gutenberg text)
• Corneille, Tasso, and Modern Poetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by A. Donald Sellstrom (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature (London: Macmillan, 1931), by W. P. Ker (Gutenberg text)
• Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry, by John Dryden (Gutenberg text)
• Four Essays (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages v3; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917), by Murray Anthony Potter (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Lauren Silberman (HTML at UC Press)
• Epic to Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1974), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF at Ohio State)
• Theory and Practice of English Narrative Verse Since 1833 (Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, 1932), by Willem van Doorn (page images at delpher.nl)

• Kalevipoeg Studies: The Creation and Reception of an Epic (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, c2016), by Cornelius Hasselblatt (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Uber die Angelsächsischen Versus Gnomici (dissertation in German; Jena: A-Kämpfe, 1893), by Hugo Müller (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hymnody of the Christian Church (c1927), by Louis F. Benson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Hymnal 1940 Companion (third revised edition; New York: Church Pension Fund, 1956), by Episcopal Church Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of the Hymns and Tunes (1906), by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Studies in Hymnology: A Textbook Designed for Study Groups Where Attention is Given to the Subject of Church Music; Also for Colleges, Schools, the Music Teacher and All Inquiring Students (Nashville: Cokesbury Press, c1938), by Mrs. Crosby Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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

• Letters of Blood, and Other Works in English (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2011), by Göran Printz-Påhlson, ed. by Robert Archambeau
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google
• Romanticism and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (2003), ed. by Lisa Malinowski Steinman (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by Conrad Aiken (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Mary K. DeShazer (page images at HathiTrust)

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