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• Vergil: A Biography, by Tenney Frank (Gutenberg text)

• Ancient Lives of Vergil, with an Essay on the Poems of Vergil in Connection with His Life and Times (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1879), by Henry Nettleship (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Ovid de Ponto: Containing Foure Books of Elegies, Written by Him in Tomos, a Citie of Pontus, in the Foure Last Yeares of His Life, and So Dyed There in the Seaventh Yeare of his Banishment From Rome (second edition; London: Printed by T. Cotes for M. Sparke Jr., 1640), by Ovid, trans. by Wye Saltonstall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Letters of Sidonius, by Saint Sidonius Apollinaris, ed. by O. M. Dalton (HTML with commentary at tertullian.org)

• The Letters of Sidonius, by Saint Sidonius Apollinaris, ed. by O. M. Dalton (HTML with commentary at tertullian.org)

• Aelii Donati Commenti Vergiliani: Reliquiae Praeter Vitam, Praefationem, Prooemium (dissertation in Latin; Greifswald: H. Adler, 1910), by Aelius Donatus and Julius Ender (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Aelii Donati Commenti Vergiliani: Reliquiae Praeter Vitam, Praefationem, Prooemium (dissertation in Latin; Greifswald: H. Adler, 1910), by Aelius Donatus and Julius Ender (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient Lives of Vergil, with an Essay on the Poems of Vergil in Connection with His Life and Times (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1879), by Henry Nettleship (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Virgil, by Aelius Donatus, trans. by David Scott Wilson-Okamura (HTML with commentary at virgil.org)
• Vergil: A Biography, by Tenney Frank (Gutenberg text)
• Great Writers: Cervantes, Scott, Milton, Virgil, Montaigne, Shakspere (New York: McClure Co., 1907), by George Edward Woodberry
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Fulgentius the Mythographer (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, ed. by Leslie George Whitbread
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press

• Christophori Landini Florentini Libri Quattuor: Primus de Vita Activa et Contemplativa; Secundus de Summo Bono; Tertius et Quartus in Publij Virgilij Maronis Allegorias (4 books in Latin (book 1 also known as Disputationes Camaldulenses), bound in a larger set of early printed books; 1508), by Cristoforo Landino (page images in Germany)

• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google)

• The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008), by Marc Mastrangelo (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Virgil and the Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Donna B. Hamilton (PDF at Ohio State)

• Les Faictz Merveilleux de Virgille: Reimpression Textuello de l'Édition Sans Date, Publiée à Paris, Chez Guillaume Nyverd (in French; Geneva: J. Gay et fils, 1867), ed. by Gustave Brunet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Wonderful History of Virgilius the Sorcerer of Rome, Englished for the First Time (Mediaeval Legends #2; London: D. Nutt, 1893) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Atti e Memorie (Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana; in Italian) (full serial archives)

• Virgil's Epic Technique (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Richard Heinze, trans. by Hazel Mary Harvey, David Harvey, and Fred Robertson, contrib. by Antonie Wlosok (HTML at UC Press)

• The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aneis (third edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed by J. Tonson, 1709), by Virgil, trans. by John Dryden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Antonia Jane Reobone Syson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Virgil's Epic Technique (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Richard Heinze, trans. by Hazel Mary Harvey, David Harvey, and Fred Robertson, contrib. by Antonie Wlosok (HTML at UC Press)
• Dante's Epic Journeys (originally published 1974; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by David Thompson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Characters and Epithets: A Study in Virgil's Aeneid (1926), by Nicholas Moseley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Metaphorische Kunst Vergils in der Aeneis (in German; Graudenz: G. Röthe, 1894), by Alfred Preuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sage von den Wanderungen des Aeneas bei Dionysios von Halikarnasos und Vergilius (in German; Leipzig: A. Edelmann, 1882), by E. Wörner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Virgil and the Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Donna B. Hamilton (PDF at Ohio State)
• Virgile et les Origines d'Ostie (in French; Paris: E. de Boccard, 1919), by Jérôme Carcopino (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas and Camilla), 1-224, 498-521, 532-96, 648-89, 725-835: Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary (main text in Latin; commentary in English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by Virgil, ed. by Ingo Gildenhard and John Henderson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299: Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays (main text in Latin; commentary in English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012), by Virgil, ed. by Ingo Gildenhard
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • multiple formats at Google

• Theatrum Poetarum: or, A Compleat Collection of the Poets, Especially the Most Eminent, of All Ages (2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for C. Smith, 1675), by Edward Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sweet Singers of Wales, by H. Elvet Lewis (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, With Notices of His Life and Genius (2 volumes; New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850), by Edgar Allan Poe, contrib. by Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, and Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), by Phillis Wheatley and Margaretta Matilda Odell
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave (Boston: G. W. Light; New York: Moore and Payne, 1834), by B. B. Thatcher (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Big Sea (c1940), by Langston Hughes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology, ed. by Amardeep Singh (illustrated HTML at Lehigh)

• Thomas Kennedy: The Poet Who Loved Liberty and Led a Struggle for Religious Tolerance (c2021), by Dan Guzy (page images with commentary at WHILBR)
• Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Emory Holloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Days With Walt Whitman; With Some Notes on His Life and Work (London: G. Allen, 1906), by Edward Carpenter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• John Greenleaf Whittier: A Sketch of His Life, With Selected Poems, by Bliss Perry and John Greenleaf Whittier (HTML at Michigan)
• Letters of Life (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at archive.org)
• Sidney Lanier, by Edwin Mims (Gutenberg text)
• Walt Whitman (Philadelphia: D. McKay, 1883), by Richard Maurice Bucke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Walt Whitman in Mickle Street (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921), by Elizabeth Leavitt Keller, contrib. by Guido Bruno (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Walt Whitman; To Which is Added, English Critics on Walt Whitman (Glasgow: Wilson and McCormick, 1884), by Richard Maurice Bucke, ed. by Edward Dowden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Worlds and I (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman (2 volumes; New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1910), by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Laura Stedman, and George M. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated, by F. V. N. Painter (Gutenberg text)
• Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1903), by F. V. N. Painter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Some Reminiscences and Early Letters of Sidney Lanier (Macon, GA: J. W. Burke Co., 1907), by George Herbert Clarke, contrib. by Harry Stillwell Edwards and Sidney Lanier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)

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