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Sonnets, English -- History and criticism

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• Sonnets, English
• English poetry -- History and criticism
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• Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), by Amy Christine Billone (PDF at Ohio State)
• 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)
• Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Heather Dubrow (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Secret Drama of Shakspeare's Sonnets (1888 edition), by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)

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• Sonnet Selection: Poems, With Eight Rilke Lyrics Translated (Kirkcaldy: Akros, 2007), by Tessa Ransford (PDF with commentary at wisdomfield.com)
• Astrophel and Stella, by Philip Sidney (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive, by William Lisle Bowles (HTML here at Penn)
• Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, by Mary Wroth (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Sonnets From the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Gutenberg text and audio)
• A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner (1560), by Anne Prowse (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• A New Study of the Sonnets of Shakespeare (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1900), by Parke Godwin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Rhymes a la Mode, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Shakspere's Songs and Sonnets (New York: Cassell, Peter, and Galpin, n.d.), by William Shakespeare, illust. by John Gilbert
  • muiltiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Songs and Sonnets (New York and Boston: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1898), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Francis Turner Palgrave
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (originally published 2003; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Anthony Hecht (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Culture and Rhetoric of the Answer-Poem, 1485-1625, by Christopher Boswell (HTML with commentary at cultureandrhetoric.net)
• Literature and Art (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Mystical Poets of the English Church (London: SPCK; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Percy H. Osmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On English Poetry: Being an Irregular Approach to the Psychology of This Art, From Evidence Mainly Subjective (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by Robert Graves (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Studies in Poetry and Criticism (London: George Bell and Sons, 1905), by John Churton Collins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Convention and Revolt in Poetry (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919), by John Livingston Lowes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Imagination and Fancy: or, Selections From the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art, With Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question "What is Poetry?" (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1848), ed. by Leigh Hunt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Imagination and Fancy: or, Selections From the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art, With Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question "What is Poetry?" (new edition; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Leigh Hunt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) (London: Oxford University Press, c1922), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)

• Biographia Literaria, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Gutenberg text)

• George Herbert's Lyrics (originally published 1968; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arnold Stein (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Mystical Poets of the English Church (London: SPCK; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Percy H. Osmond (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher, by Henry Jones (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• 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)
• Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance (originally published 1989; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by O. B. Hardison (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• 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)

• 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)

• Yeats and Postmodernism (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1991), ed. by Leonard Orr (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)

• English Fairy Poetry, From the Origins to the 17th century (London: H. Frowde; Paris: H. Didier, 1912), by Floris Delattre (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Poems at the Edge of Differences: Mothering in New English Poetry by Women (2008), by Renate Papke (PDF in Germany)

• Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), by James D. Garrison (HTML at UC Press)

• Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Heather Dubrow (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Swinburne's Medievalism: A Study in Victorian Love Poetry (1988), by Antony H. Harrison (HTML at Victorian Web)

• 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)
• Victorian Pastoral: Tennyson, Hardy, and the Subversion of Forms (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Owen Schur (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Chartist Imaginary: Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Margaret A. Loose (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dryden in Revolutionary England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David Bywaters (HTML at UC Press)

• England's Antiphon, by George MacDonald (Gutenberg text)
• England's Antiphon (New York: Macmillan, 1890), by George MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)

• Flights From the Iron Moon: Genre Poetry in UK Fanzines and Little Magazines, 1980-1989 (electronic edition, 2008), by Steve Sneyd (PDF with commentary at efanzines.com)

• Pope's Horatian Poems (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1966), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

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