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Poetry of places

Here are entered collections of poetry about several places in various parts of the world. Poetry about individual places is entered under the name of the place with subdivision Poetry.

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• Local color in literature
• Poetry

• Cities and towns in literature

• Poetry of places -- Juvenile literature

• Topographical poetry

• Round the World with the Poets (Boston: C. H. Kilborn, c1889), ed. by Mary Cate Smith and Sarah C. Winn (page images at HathiTrust)
• London Lamps: A Book of Songs (London: G. Richards, 1918), by Thomas Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• London Lamps: A Book of Songs (New York: R. M. McBride and Co.; London: G. Richards, 1919), by Thomas Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Abroad (London et al.: Marcus Ward and Co., ca. 1882), illust. by Thomas Crane and Ellen Elizabeth Houghton
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Erik Bond (PDF at Ohio State)
• October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Carlo Rotella (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Poets on Place: Interviews and Tales From the Road (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), ed. by W. T. Pfefferle (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Theory is Like a Surging Sea (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Michael Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Metaphysician in the Dark (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Charles Simic (page images at HathiTrust)
• More Power to Poets: A Plea for More Poetry in Life, More Life in Poetry (New York: H. Harrison, c1934), by Lucia Trent and Ralph Cheyney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Ignacio Navarrete (HTML at UC Press)
• Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems, and Its Literary Significance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930), by Edward Douglas Snyder, contrib. by James H. Leuba (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical Approaches to Literature (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1956), by David Daiches (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte Poetica (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Na Typografia Rollandiana, 1818), by Nicolas Boileau Despréaux, trans. by Luís de Meneses Ericeira (page images at HathiTrust)
• Convention and Revolt in Poetry (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919), by John Livingston Lowes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Defence of Poetry, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (HTML at Toronto)
• A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Gutenberg text)
• English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century (London: Oxford University Press, H. Miford, c1916), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (Gutenberg text)
• The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (main text only; some peripheral sections omitted), by John Dennis (HTML at Toronto)
• Guide to Social Happiness (New York: E. Walker, ca. 1850), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• How to Write Poetry (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1919), by Ethel Maude Colson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1900), by George Santayana (multiple formats at archive.org)
• L'Art Poétique (student edition, in French with English notes; Cambridge: At the University Press, 1898), by Nicolas Boileau Despréaux, ed. by David Nichol Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nowadays (Boston: The Four Seas Co., 1918), by Lord Dunsany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
• The Ring of Love, and Other Poems (Boston: Cornhill Pub. Co., c1923), by Brookes More, illust. by Tracy Porter Rudd and Lewis Perry (multiple formats at Google)
• A Study of Poetry, by Bliss Perry (Gutenberg text)
• English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) (London: Oxford University Press, c1922), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Studies in Poetry and Criticism (London: George Bell and Sons, 1905), by John Churton Collins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art and Scholasticism, and The Frontiers of Poetry, by Jacques Maritain, trans. by Joseph W. Evans (HTML at Notre Dame)
• The Poet's Poet: Essays on the Character and Mission of the Poet As Interpreted in English Verse of the Last One Hundred and Fifty Years, by Elizabeth Atkins (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)

• Beyond the Sunset (Eau Claire, WI: Pub. for the author, 1921), by Ida May Hill Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poems That Have Helped Me (Chicago: P. F. Volland and Co., c1911), ed. by Samuel E. Kiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems That Have Helped Me (Chicago: P. F. Volland and Co., c1916), ed. by Samuel E. Kiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Whimsey Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), ed. by Carolyn Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Concise Poetical Concordance to the Principal Poets of the World: Embracing Titles, First Lines, Characters, Subjects, and Quotations (New York: J. B. Alden, 1885), by Charles Augustus Durfee (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.