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• Academia: or, The Humours of the University of Oxford in Burlesque Verse (London: Randal Taylor, 1691), by Alicia D'Anvers (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Op. I. (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell (Adventurers All Series), 1916), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Green Bays: Verses and Parodies by Q., by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
• Green Bays: Verses and Parodies by Q. (London: Methuen and Co., 1893), by Arthur Quiller-Couch (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Oxoniana: or, Anecdotes Relative to the University and City of Oxford (Oxford: Slatter and Munday, 1806), ed. by John Walker
  • first volume: multiple formats at Google
  • second volume: multiple formats at Google
  • third volume: multiple formats at Google
  • fourth volume: multiple formats at Google
• An English Fellow's Answer to a Scotch Licentiate's Letter: or, a Vindication of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London, From the Charge of Iniquity Brought Against the Fellows of the Said College, in the Said Letter (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1753) (page images at NIH)

• Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714 (4 volumes; Oxford and London: Parker and Co., 1891-1892), by University of Oxford, ed. by Joseph Foster
  • Volume I (A-D): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (E-K): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (L-R): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (S-Z): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: illustrated HTML at British History Online
• Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 (4 volumes; Oxford and London: Parker and Co., ca. 1888-1891), by University of Oxford, ed. by Joseph Foster
  • Volume I (A-D): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (E-K): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (L-R): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (S-Z): multiple formats at archive.org

• Athenae Oxonienses: An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops Who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford; To Which Are Added the Fasti, or Annals of the Said University (new edition, with additions and a continuation; 4 volumes; London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington; et al., 1813-1820), by Anthony à Wood, contrib. by Philip Bliss
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695, Described by Himself (5 volumes; Oxford: Printed for the Oxford Historical Society, at the Clarendon Press, 1891-1900), by Anthony à Wood, ed. by Andrew Clark
  • Volume I (1632-1663): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1664-1681): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1682-1695): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Addenda): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Indexes): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Sights and Scenes in Oxford City and University (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1898), by Thomas Whittaker, contrib. by George Saintsbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reasons of the Present Judgement of the University of Oxford, Concerning the Solemne League and Covenant; the Negative Oath; the Ordinances Concerning Discipline and Worship (1647), by University of Oxford Convocation (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Hypocrite (London: Greening and Co., 1898), by C. Ranger Gull (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lady Connie, by Mrs. Humphry Ward, illust. by Albert Sterner (Gutenberg text)
• The Vision Splendid (London: J. Murray, 1913), by D. K. Broster and G. Winifred Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• The Youth of Parnassus, and Other Stories (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895), by Logan Pearsall Smith (Gutenberg text)

• Oxford of Today; A Manual for Prospective Rhodes Scholars (New York et al.: Oxford University Press, 1922), ed. by Laurence A. Crosby and Frank Aydelotte
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Oxford of Today; A Manual for Prospective Rhodes Scholars (New York et al.: Oxford University Press, 1922), ed. by Laurence A. Crosby and Frank Aydelotte
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Oxford, by Andrew Lang, illust. by George F. Carline (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695, Described by Himself (5 volumes; Oxford: Printed for the Oxford Historical Society, at the Clarendon Press, 1891-1900), by Anthony à Wood, ed. by Andrew Clark
  • Volume I (1632-1663): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1664-1681): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1682-1695): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Addenda): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Indexes): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Jack Harkaway at Oxford (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by Bracebridge Hemyng (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack Harkaway's Strange Adventures at Oxford: Being the Conclusion of Jack Harkaway at Oxford (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by Bracebridge Hemyng (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oxford Today (University of Oxford alumni magazine that ceased publication in 2017) (partial serial archives)

• The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695, Described by Himself (5 volumes; Oxford: Printed for the Oxford Historical Society, at the Clarendon Press, 1891-1900), by Anthony à Wood, ed. by Andrew Clark
  • Volume I (1632-1663): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1664-1681): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1682-1695): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Addenda): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Indexes): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Theory is Like a Surging Sea (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Michael Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Semiotics of Poetry (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, c1978), by Michael Riffaterre (HTML with commentary at Indiana)
• 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)
• Notes sur la Technique Poétique (in French; Paris: Champion, 1925), by Georges Duhamel and Charles Vildrac
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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)

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