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• Poetry -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)

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• A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), ed. by Jan Alber, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian Richardson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Romantic Poetics of Public Feeling (2021), ed. by Lily Gurton-Wachter and Tristram Wolff (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Chances of Rhyme: Device and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), by Donald Wesling (HTML at UC Press)
• Corneille, Tasso, and Modern Poetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by A. Donald Sellstrom (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• The Mirror of Composition: A Treatise on Poetical Criticism (Kolkata: C. B. Lewis, Baptist Mission Press, 1875), by Viśvanātha Kavirāja, trans. by James Robert Ballantyne and Pramada Dasa Mitra
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• "Soundings of Things Done": The Poetry and Poetics of Sound in the Romantic Ear and Era (2008), by Susan J. Wolfson (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Tennyson's Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns (1975), by James R. Kincaid (HTML at Victorian Web)

• The Fusion of Horatian and Aristotelian Literary Criticism, 1531-1555 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946), by Marvin T. Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• The Poetics of Jacobean Drama (originally published 1981; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Coburn Freer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Knot of Artifice: A Poetic of the French Lyric in the Early 17th Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by David Lee Rubin (PDF at Ohio State)
• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• The Dome and the Rock: Structure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (originally published 1968; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Baird (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• Soulspeak: The Outward Journey of the Soul (c2002), by Justin Spring (HTML and PDF with commentary at Pitt)
• The Metaphysician in the Dark (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Charles Simic (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversations on Religion, With Lord Byron and Others, Held in Cephalonia, A Short Time Previous to His Lordship's Death (London: J. Murray, 1830), by James Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), by Guinn Batten (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Dictionary of Haiku, Classified by Season Words with Traditional and Modern Methods, by Jane Reichhold (HTML at ahapoetry.com)

• 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)

• Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy (2 volumes (each also with "Arte of English Poesie" title page); London: Printed for R. Triphook, 1811-1815), ed. by Joseph Haslewood, contrib. by George Puttenham, George Gascoigne, William Webbe, King James I of England, John Harington, Francis Meres, Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Edmund Bolton, Edmund Spenser, and Gabriel Harvey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• The Art of Poetry: The Poetical Treatises of Horace, Vida, and Boileau, With the Translations by Howes, Pitt, and Soame (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1892), ed. by Albert S. Cook, trans. by Francis Howes, Christopher Pitt, and William Soame, contrib. by Horace, Marco Girolamo Vida, and Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Arte of English Poesie, by George Puttenham
  • HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Toronto
• The Defence of Poesie, by Philip Sidney (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• A Defence of Poesie and Poems, by Philip Sidney, contrib. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• A Defence of Ryme, by Samuel Daniel (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• An Essay on Criticism, by Alexander Pope
  • HTML at jacklynch.net
  • Gutenberg text
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Critical Essays of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1725 (1915), ed. by W. H. Durham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pierce Penilesse: His Supplication to the Divell, by Thomas Nash (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Quodlibets, by Robert Hayman (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Conquest of Canäan: A Poem, in Eleven Books (Hartford: Printed by E. Babcock, 1785), by Timothy Dwight
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• The Botanic Garden: A Poem, In Two Parts (2 parts in 1 volume; New York: T. and J. Swords, 1807), by Erasmus Darwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts, With Philosophical Notes, by Erasmus Darwin
  • Part I: Gutenberg text
  • Part II: Gutenberg text

• The Conquest of Canäan: A Poem, in Eleven Books (Hartford: Printed by E. Babcock, 1785), by Timothy Dwight
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• Anglorum Praelia (in Latin and English), by Christopher Ocland, ed. by Dana F. Sutton (HTML at the Philological Museum)

• Della Caccia: Poema (in Italian; Bergamo: C. Ventura, 1591), by Erasmo da Valvasone
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Conquest of Canäan: A Poem, in Eleven Books (Hartford: Printed by E. Babcock, 1785), by Timothy Dwight
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• The History of Joseph: A Poem in Ten Books, by Elizabeth Singer Rowe (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Conquest of Canäan: A Poem, in Eleven Books (Hartford: Printed by E. Babcock, 1785), by Timothy Dwight
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• Barley-Breake: or, A Warning for Wantons, by W. N., Gent. (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• The Botanic Garden: A Poem, In Two Parts (2 parts in 1 volume; New York: T. and J. Swords, 1807), by Erasmus Darwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts, With Philosophical Notes, by Erasmus Darwin
  • Part I: Gutenberg text
  • Part II: Gutenberg text

• The Old, Old, Very Old Man: or, The Age and Long Life of Thomas Par, the Son of John Parr of Winnington (London: Henry Goffon, 1635), by John Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Schoole of Abuse, by Stephen Gosson (HTML at Renascence Editions)

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