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• Die poetische Personifikation unpersönlicher Substantiva bei Cowper und Coleridge ([s.n.], 1914), by Gustav Tietje (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personification in eighteenth-century English poetry. (King's Crown Press, Columbia University, 1955), by Chester Fisher Chapin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die personitikation (als poetisches kunstmittel und ihre verwendung) in der mittelhochdeutschen dichtung bis zum beginne des verfalles. ... (Druck von M. Hoffmann, 1888), by Richard Galle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personification and the use of abstract subjects in the Attic orators and Thukydides. Pt. 1 ([s.n.], 1901), by Robert Somerville Radford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personification of soul and body (Dropsie College, 1912), by Henry Malter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personificationen lebloser Dinge in der altfranzösischen Litteratur des 10. bis 12. Jahrhunderts : Teil II. Personificationen von Abstracten (s.n.], 1904), by Richard Herzhoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De personificationis quae dicitur usu Taciteo (Officina Hoferiana, 1884), by Fr Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personifikationen abstrakter Begriffe auf Römischen Münzen vorläufiger Teil (Hartungsche Buchdruckerei, 1910), by Wilhelm Koehler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Personifikation unpersönlicher Hauptwörter bei den Vorläufern Shakespeares (Lyly, Kyd, Marlowe, Peele und Greene) Ein Beitrag zur Grammatik und Poetik der Elisabethinischen Zeit ... (R. Noske, 1904), by Martin Joseph Liening (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personifikationen abstrakter begriffe auf Römisch en Münzen : vorläufiger Teil (Hartungsche Buchdruckerei, 1910), by Wilhelm Koehler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetische Personifikation in den Dichtungen des Horaz (K.B. Hof- und Universitätsbuchdruckerei von Junge & Sohn, 1914), by David Eberlein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das poetische Genus personifizierter substantiva bei James Thomson und Edward Young betrachtet im zusammenhang der geschichtlichen entwicklung vom mittel-englischen bis auf Lord Tennyson. ([s.n.], 1914), by Werner Brandenburg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nihon gijinmei jisho (Hankyōdō, 1921), by Gaikotsu Miyatake (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Vitality of Allegory: Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Gary Johnson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Body Against Soul: Gender and Sowlehele in Middle English Allegory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Masha Raskolnikov
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
• Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Richard Neuse (HTML at UC Press)
• Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory (open access reprint; originally published Evanston: Northwestern University Press, ca. 1959), by Edwin Honig (PDF at Northwestern)
• Mysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance (originally published 1970; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Don Cameron Allen (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by John Morán González (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and The Paradox of Homosexual Desire (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Christopher Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Frederick Michael Dolan (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The English Moralities From the Point of View of Allegory (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1914), by W. Roy Mackenzie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature v2; London and Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1897), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text and page images)
• L'allegoria della Divina commedia di Dante Alighieri (Tipi di M. Cellini e c., 1864), by Vincenzo Barelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nuovo esperimento sulla principale allegoria della Divina commedia di Dante Allighieri (Tipografia Moretti, 1845), by Marco Giovanni Ponta (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the meaning and function of allegory in the English Renaissance. (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1947), by Joshua McClennen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mediaeval Spanish allegory (Harvard University Press, 1915), by Chandler Rathfon Post (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allegory in the French heroic poem of the seventeenth century (Princeton university press for the University of Cincinnati, 1936), by Archimede Marni (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of allegory in the classical pastoral .. . ([Menasha, Wis., 1928), by Frank Russell Hamblin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English moralities from the point of view of allegory (Ginn and company, 1914), by W. Roy Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The four daughters of God : a study of the versions of this allegory, with special reference to those in Latin, French, and English. (J. C. Winston, 1907), by Hope Traver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles d'Orléans and the allegorical mode (U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages ;, 1974), by Ann Tukey Harrison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die allegorie bei Hans Sachs mit besonderer berücksichtigung ihrer beziehungen zur graphischen kunst (Max Niemeyer, 1912), by Helene Henze (page images at HathiTrust)
• The transformation of allegory from Spenser to Hawthorne. (Amherst College Press, 1962), by Peter Berek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sistema dell'arte allegorica nel poema dantesco. (F. Giovanni, 1892), by Ruggero Della Torre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Energy forms : allegory and science in the era of classical thermodynamics (University of Michigan Press, 2001), by Bruce Clarke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English moralities from the point of view of allegory (Ginn and company, 1914), by W. Roy Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some word on allegory in England read to the Odd Volumes at their meeting, July 5, 1895. (Chiswick, 1895), by Brother Ignoramus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die dem Menschen feindlichen allegorischen Figuren auf der Moralitätenbühne Frankreichs. (Dieterich, 1904), by Emil Dreger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English moralities from the point of view of allegory. (Ginn, 1914), by W. Roy Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Allegorie in ihrer Anwendung bei Maimonides (Fanto, 1894), by Philipp Goldberger and I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allégories & symboles; énigmes [etc.]. (A. Aubry, 1872), by Marc de Vissac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothed with the sun, or, From Olivet to the gates of glory being a historical similitude, in which genuine Christianity is personified in the form of a good and beautiful woman journeying through a wilderness that is full of dangers, and where she finds many deadly foes (Printed for the author by W. Briggs, 1891), by Joseph H. Hilts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gold thread (Belford, 1876), by Norman Macleod (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true story about the fight at Dame Europa's school showing how the French boy began the fight, boasting was punished, and justice done. (Canadian News and Pub. Co., 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• John justified a reply to the fight in Dame Europa' s school showing that "there are always two sides to every question". (Canadian News and Pub. Co., 1871), by Charles William Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The four daughters of God : a study of the versions of this allegory, with special reference to those in Latin, French, and English (Bryn Mawr College, 1907), by Hope Traver (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Middle English charters of Christ (Bryn Mawr College, 1914), by Mary Caroline Spalding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber vier allegorische Motive in der lateinischen und deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters (Im Verlage des Landes-Obergymnasiums zu Leoben, 1885), by Karl Raab (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world's work; a dramatic allegory ... (Walter H. Baker & Co., 1902), by Howard W. Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hermathena. (Printed by C.J. Clay, 1886), by Papyrius Geminus and Henry Bradshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Allegorie in ihrer exegetischen Anwendung bei Moses Maimonides. (Druck von T. Schatzky, 1901), by Philipp Goldberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Allegorie in Kunst, Wissenschaft und Kirche. (Mohr, 1899), by D. W. Bornemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Allegorie bei Hans Sachs mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Beziehungen zur graphischen Kunst. (Karra, 1911), by Helene Henze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fünf Vorträge von der Paderborner Generalversammlung (J.P. Bachem, 1907), by Adolf Dyroff, Vinzenz Schweitzer, Franz Xaver Kugler, Erich Wasmann, Josef Wilpert, and Görres-Gesellschaft (page images at HathiTrust)
• A relation of the holy war (Wm. L. Allison Co., in the 1st century), by John Bunyan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The medieval representative of music, Jubal or Tubalcain? (Mediaeval Institute, University of Notre Dame, 1954), by Paul E. Beichner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Myth and allegory. (s.n., 1897), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il dramma allegorico nelle origini del teatro italiano. (Societá tipografica arpinate, 1915), by Enrico Furno (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wisdom, wit and allegory. Selected from "The Spectator." (Virtue and Yorston, 1869), by Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The allegory as employed by Spenser, Bunyan, and Swift. A dissertation presented to the academic council of Harvard university for the degree of doctor of philosophy. ([Baltimore?, 1889), by Herbert Eveleth Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Y rhyfel ysbrydol a wnaethpwyd gan Shaddai ar Biabolus er ennill yn ol fam-ddinas byd ; neu, golli ac ennill drachefn dref Man-soul (Caerfyrddin : John Evans, 1812., 1812), by John Bunyan, F. N. Robinson, and John Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and death of Mr. Badman presented to the world in a familiar dialogue between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive / by John Bunyan ... (London : Printed by J. A. for Nath. Ponder ..., 1680), by John Bunyan (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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