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• Ballads -- History and criticism
• Eddas -- History and criticism
• Elegiac poetry -- History and criticism
• Epic poetry -- History and criticism
• Gnomic poetry -- History and criticism
• Hymns -- History and criticism
• Love poetry -- History and criticism
• Lyric poetry -- History and criticism
• Pastoral poetry -- History and criticism
• Poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism
• Poetry, Modern -- History and criticism

• 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 (London: D. Nutt, 1899), by Sophus Bugge (HTML at northvegr.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)

• Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford "Roland" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Eleanor Webster Bulatkin (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• 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)
• Homer: The Poetry of the Past (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Andrew Laughlin Ford (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Richard Heitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Mark Buchan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by James Joseph Clauss (HTML at UC Press)
• The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Laura M. Slatkin (HTML at UC Press)
• The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic, by Douglas Frame (HTML at Harvard)
• The Unity of Homer (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1921), by John A. Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars: Celestial Sex, Earthly Destruction, and Dramatic Sublimation in Homer's Odyssey, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• Homer and History (London: Macmillan, 1915), by Walter Leaf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homerische Untersuchungen (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sprachliche Untersuchungen zu Homer (in German; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1916), by Jacob Wackernagel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homer and His Age, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, by Casey Dué (HTML at Harvard)
• Penelope in the Odyssey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916), by J. W. Mackail (page images at HathiTrust)

• Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Medieval in the Renaissance (2 volumes), by Vernon Lee
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text

• 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)

• 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)

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

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