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• 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
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• 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)
• An inquiry into the moral character of Lord Byron ... (New York: Published by E. Bliss & E. White ..., 1824), by J. W. Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Richard Hurd, volume 8 (of 8), by Richard Hurd (Gutenberg ebook)
• The works of Richard Hurd, volume 7 (of 8), by Richard Hurd (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shakespeare's treatment of love & marriage, and other essays, by C. H. Herford (Gutenberg ebook)
• The golden verses of Pythagoras, by Antoine Fabre d'Olivet and Pythagoras, trans. by Nayán Louise Redfield (Gutenberg ebook)
• On poetic interpretation of nature, by John Campbell Shairp (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le Secret professionnel (in French), by Jean Cocteau, illust. by Pablo Picasso (Gutenberg ebook)
• The works of Richard Hurd, volume 6 (of 8), by Richard Hurd (Gutenberg ebook)
• The works of Richard Hurd, volume 5 (of 8), by Richard Hurd (Gutenberg ebook)
• The works of Richard Hurd, volume 4 (of 8), by Richard Hurd (Gutenberg ebook)
• The works of Richard Hurd, volume 3 (of 8), by Richard Hurd (Gutenberg ebook)
• The works of Richard Hurd, volume 2 (of 8), by Richard Hurd (Gutenberg ebook)
• The works of Richard Hurd, volume 1 (of 8), by Richard Hurd (Gutenberg ebook)
• Runous ja runouden muodot: Kirjoitelmia. Runoja. (in Finnish), by B. F. Godenhjelm (Gutenberg ebook)
• Every Man His Own Poet; Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book, by W. H. Mallock (Gutenberg ebook)
• Reflexions sur la Poétique d'Aristote et sur les ouvrages des poètes anciens & modernes. English (London : Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman ..., 1674), by René Rapin and Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An essay on translated verse by the Earl of Roscomon. (London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1684), by Wentworth Dillon Roscommon and John Dryden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Regular and irregular thoughts in poets and orators (London : Printed for John Hartley ..., D. Brown ..., Jos. Fox ..., G. Huddleston ..., R. Wellington ..., A. Bell ..., 1697) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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)

• Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe, by George Santayana (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Home of the Eddic Poems, With Especial Reference to the Helgi-Lays (London: D. Nutt, 1899), by Sophus Bugge (HTML at northvegr.org)

• 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)
• Remarks on a book entituled Prince Arthur, an heroick poem with some general critical observations and several new remarks upon Virgil / by Mr. Dennis. (London : Printed for S. Heyrick and R. Sare ..., 1696), by John Dennis (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Traité du poème épique. English (London : Printed for Tho. Bennet ..., 1695), by René Le Bossu, W. J., André Dacier, and M. de Fontenelle (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams, by Pierre Nicole, trans. by J. V. Cunningham (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• The Singing Church: The Hymns It Wrote and Sang, by Edmund S. Lorenz (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hymns in Human Experience, by William J. Hart, ed. by Oscar L. Joseph (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hymnological Studies, by Matthew Nathanael Lundquist (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of Our Hymns, by Ernest Edwin Ryden (Gutenberg ebook)
• Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries, by Ruth Ellis Messenger (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• De Carmine Pastorali: Prefixed to Thomas Creech's translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684), by René Rapin, trans. by Thomas Creech, contrib. by J. E. Congleton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Traité du poème épique. English (London : Printed for Tho. Bennet ..., 1695), by René Le Bossu, W. J., André Dacier, and M. de Fontenelle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The idylliums of Theocritus with Rapin's discourse of pastorals / done into English. (Oxford : Printed by L. Lichfield for Anthony Stephens, 1684), by Theocritus, René Rapin, and Thomas Creech (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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