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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)
"Zlate črke" na posodi Gazel ali problem apolinične lepote v Prešernovi umetnosti : slovstvena študija v svitu romantike in antike (Katoliška tisk., 1912), by Josip Puntar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Essai philosophique sur le principe et les formes de la versification (Brockhaus et Avenarius, 1841), by Édélestand Du Méril (page images at HathiTrust)
The complete poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe (H. Frowde, 1909), by Edgar Allan Poe and R. Brimley Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
Milton's prosody (Oxford, 1901), by Robert Bridges (page images at HathiTrust)
English verse; specimens illustrating its principles and history (H. Holt and Company, 1903), by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
A handbook of poetics, for students of English verse. (Ginn & company, 1885), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
Homeric memory rhymes and the principles of melody in poetry. (W.V. Byars, 1895), by William Vincent Byars (page images at HathiTrust)
The laws of verse : or principles of versification exemplified in metrical translations, together with an annotated reprint of the inaugural presidential address to the mathematical and physical section of the British Association at Exeter (Longmans, Green, 1870), by James Joseph Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)
Two lectures introductory to the study of poetry (University Press, 1901), by H. C. Beeching (page images at HathiTrust)
A dictionary of English literature; authors, anonymous works, literary terms, versification, chronology (Barnes & Noble, inc., 1945), by Homer A. Watt and William Whyte Watt (page images at HathiTrust)
Theorie der neuhochdeutschen Metrik (C. Doebereiner, 1870), by Rudolf Westphal (page images at HathiTrust)
American prosody (American Book Co., 1935), by Gay Wilson Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
Reimregister zu den Werken Wolframs von Eschenbach. (G. Basse, 1867), by Albert Schulz (page images at HathiTrust)
The foundations and nature of verse (Columbia university press, 1918), by Cary Franklin Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
Sobre la percepción métrica (Imprenta elzeviriana, Borrás, Mestres y c a., 1920), by Carlos Vaz Ferreira (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The writing and reading of verse (D. Appleton and Company, 1918), by C. E. Andrews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
English poesy : an induction (J.M. Dent, 1911), by William Winslow Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Über das Fehlen des Auftakts in Chaucers heroischem Verse. (A. Deichert (G. Böhme), 1889), by Markus Freudenberger (page images at HathiTrust)
The Indoeuropean superstress and the evolution of verse (Anderson Brothers, 1917), by Thomas Fitz-Hugh (page images at HathiTrust)
Un manuscrit inédit de Fabre d'Olivet ... (A. Colin, 1924), by Antoine Fabre d'Olivet and Hugo P. Thieme (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Des beautés poétiques de toutes les langues, considérées sous le rapport de l'accent, et du rhythme. Ouvrage qui a été couronné par la seconde classe de l'Institut de France, dans la séance publique du 6 avril 1815. (Impr. de Firmin Didot, 1816), by Antonio Scoppa (page images at HathiTrust)
Versbau und gesanglicher vortrag des ältesten französischen liedes. Ein beitrag zur lehre vom rhythmischen verse (F. Enneccerus, 1901), by M. Enneccerus (page images at HathiTrust)
Essai comparatif sur l'origine et l'histoire des rythmes, (É. Bouillon, 1889), by Maksymillian Kawczyński (page images at HathiTrust)
Rhythmik-studien (N. Kymmel, 1904), by Herman von Samson-Himmelstjerra (page images at HathiTrust)
A handbook of poetics for students of English verse (Ginn & company, 1913), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
Over dichtmaat, versmaat en versbouw, inzonderheid in de Hollandsche, Duitsche, Fransche, Grieksche en Romeinsche, Arabische en Oud-Indische poëzie. (Nijhoff, 1863), by Taco Roorda (page images at HathiTrust)
Vvedenie v metriku : teorii︠a︡ stikha (Academia, 1925), by V. M. Zhirmunskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The writing and reading of verse (D. Appleton-Century company incorporated, 1934), by C. E. Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
Imbun kōwa. (1916), by Shigeru Yamamoto (page images at HathiTrust)
A handbook of poetics for students of English verse (Ginn & company, 1898), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
A study of metre (G. Richards, 1903), by T. S. Omond (page images at HathiTrust)
An answer to the question 'what is poetry?' including remarks on versification. (Ginn & co., 1893), by Leigh Hunt and Albert S. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
The art of verse making (The Hannis Jordan company, 1915), by Modeste Hannis Jordan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Allgemeine Metrik der indogermanischen und semitischen Völker auf Grundlage der vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft (S. Calvary, 1892), by Rudolf Georg Hermann Westphal (page images at HathiTrust)
An answer to the question 'What is poetry?': including remarks on versification (G. E. Stechert & Co., 1926), by Leigh Hunt and Albert S. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
Die ästhetischen Prinzipien des Versmaasses in Zusammenhang mit den allgemeinen Prinzipien der Kunst und des Schönen. (R. Kuntze, 1865), by Konrad Hermann (page images at HathiTrust)
The writing and reading of verse. (Appleton, 1929), by C. E. Andrews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The prosodic structure of Robert Bridges' neo-Miltonic syllabics. (Catholic University of America Press, 1962), by Mary Gretchen Berg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Étude sur le style dramatique d'après le théâtre d'Albert du Bois. (E. Figuière, 1923), by Jean Raphanel (page images at HathiTrust)
Primer of English verse; chiefly in its æsthetic & organic character. (Ginn, 1893), by Hiram Corson (page images at HathiTrust)
Some problems in prosody. ([n.p., 1903), by H. W. Magoun (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A study of metre (A. Moring, 1920), by T. S. Omond (page images at HathiTrust)
Der ursprung des romanisch-germanischen elf- und zehnsilblers der fünffüssigen jamben aus dem von Horaz in od. 1-3 eingeführten worttonbau des sapphischen verses. (Wandsbeck, 1895), by Paul Eickhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
Sobre el hiato en la antigua versificacion castellana (Impr. Cervantes, 1896), by Friedrich Hanssen (page images at HathiTrust)
Les problèmes de l'esthétique contemporaine ([s.n.], 1902), by Jean-Marie Guyau (page images at HathiTrust)
A leoninus; tanulmány az irodalom és verstan történetéből. ([Franklin-Társulat], 1892), by Vilmos Tolnai (page images at HathiTrust)
Aesthetika; bevezetésül a verstannal. (Franklin-Társulat, 1886), by Ferenc Baráth (page images at HathiTrust)
Aruest kʻertʻoghakan (Niw Yorkʻ, 1919), by Nicolas Boileau Despréaux and Harutʻiwn Tʻireakʻian (page images at HathiTrust)
L'art poétique (University Press, 1898), by Nicolas Boileau Despréaux and David Nichol Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
Hephaestion; oder, Anfangsgründe der griechischen, römischen und deutschen Verskunst (Königsberg, 1820), by Friedrich August Gotthold (page images at HathiTrust)
Cours élémentaire de metrique grecque et latine ... (Paris, 1914), by Louis Havet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Dictionnaire des rimes précédé d'un traité complet de versification. (Paris, 1870), by P.-M. Quitard (page images at HathiTrust)
Writing and reading of verse. (Appleton, 1920), by C. E. Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
Book-song : an anthology of poems of books and bookmen from modern authors (E. Stock, 1893), by Gleeson White (page images at HathiTrust)
Doscents afroismes, mx̉imes, sentn̈cies i consells, acoblats per un llibreter de vell anomenat Uson, i endreȧts als amants del llibre. ([Editorial Lux], 1926), by Juan Uson (page images at HathiTrust)
Grundzüge einer metrik und rhythmik für den schulgebrauch (B. G. Teubner, 1881), by Julius Methner (page images at HathiTrust)
Rhymes and meters, a practical manual for versifiers (Editor Co., 1914), by Horatio Winslow (page images at HathiTrust)
Rhythmische und metrische Untersuchungen (B. G. Teubner, 1871), by Wilhelm Brambach (page images at HathiTrust)
Vvedenie v metriku : teorii︠a︡ stikha (Academia, 1971), by V. M. Zhirmunskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A dictionary of English literature (Barnes & Noble, inc., 1945), by Homer Andrew Watt and William Whyte Watt (page images at HathiTrust)
O russkom stikhoslozhenīi : opyt izsli︠e︡dovanīi︠a︡ ritmicheskago stroi︠a︡ stikhotvorenīĭ Lermontova ([Pechatʹ tip. T-va M.O. Volʹf], 1915), by David Günzburg and Gavrīil Mikhaĭlovich Kni︠a︡zev (page images at HathiTrust)
De Euripidis tragoediarum partibus lyricis quaestiunculae ([publisher not identified], 1839), by Charles Bally (page images at HathiTrust)
Le grand et vrai art de pleine rhétorique de Pierre Fabri ([publisher not identified], 1889), by Pierre Fabri and Alexandre Héron (page images at HathiTrust)
Poėtika : sborniki po teorii poėticheskogo i︠a︡zyka (880-02 Petrograd : 18-i︠a︡ gosudarstvennai︠a︡ tipografii︠a︡, 1919., 1919), by Viktor Shklovskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
Versifikat︠s︡ii︠a︡ (V tip. Imp. Akademii nauk, 1863), by V. Klassovskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
Two lectures introductory to the study of poetry (University Press, 1902), by H. C. Beeching (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rhymes and meters. A practical manual for versifiers. (New York, 1906), by Horatio Winslow (page images at HathiTrust)
Von der Rolle des Akzentes in der Versbilding. ([n.p., 1891), by F. A. Wulff (page images at HathiTrust)
Polyhymnia, Euterpe, og Theone; eller, Rhetorisk sammenligning af musik, rhytmik, og declamerekunst. (A. Seidlin, 1813), by L. C. Sander (page images at HathiTrust)
A primer of English verse; chiefly in its aesthetic and organic character. (Ginn, 1902), by Hiram Corson, Cynthia Morgan St. John, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
Alter und neuer Versrhythmus. (B. Volger, 1909), by Maximilian von Kobilinski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Goethes und Schillers Beschäftigung mit der Poetik des Aristoteles. ([Berlin, 1884), by Christian Belger (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Wiederholung als Urform der Dichtung bei Goethe. (A. Haack, 1891), by Flodoard von Biedermann (page images at HathiTrust)
Rationem quam I. Bekker in restituendo digammo secutus (Brockhaus, 1866), by A. Leskien (page images at HathiTrust)
A larger confutation of Bishop Hare's system of Hebrew metre: in a letter to the Rev. Dr. Edwards; in answer to his Latin epistle. (A. Millar [etc.], 1766), by Robert Lowth (page images at HathiTrust)
Studi sull'accento greco e latino. ([Torino, 1919), by Massimo Lenchantin de Gubernatis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An essay on the elements, accents, & prosody, of the English language intended to have been printed as an introduction to Mr. Boucher's supplement to Johnson's dictionary (Printed for J. Budd, ... ; by G. Sidney, ... , 1805), by Jonathan Odell (page images at HathiTrust)
A handbook of poetics for students of English verse (Ginn, 1886), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
Rhythmus und indische Metrik; eine Entgegnung. (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1887), by Richard Kühnau (page images at HathiTrust)
Rudens (Clarendon Press, 1901), by Titus Maccius Plautus and E. A. Sonnenschein (page images at HathiTrust)
Theorie der Neuhochdeutschen Metrik (Doebereiner, 1877), by Rudolf Georg Hermann Westphal (page images at HathiTrust)
A handbook of poetics for students of English verse (Ginn, 1898), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
A handbook of poetics, for students of English verse. (Ginn & company, 1890), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
A handbook of poetics, for students of English verse ... (Ginn, 1902), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
Lehrbuch der Poetik für höhere Unterrichts-Anstelten wie auch zum Privatgebrauche. ([publisher not identified], 1862), by Friedrich Beck (page images at HathiTrust)
The complete poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe, with three essays on poetry. (H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1919), by Edgar Allan Poe and R. Brimley Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
Griechisch-römische metrik (Arnold, 1842), by Karl Friedrich Heinrich Freese (page images at HathiTrust)
The foundations and nature of verse (Columbia University Press, 1918), by Cary Franklin Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
A handbook of poetics for students of English verse (Ginn, 1895), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
Kurzer leitfaden der metrik. Ein auszug aus dem Handbuche der metrik der Griechen und Römer (C. Heymann, 1836), by Eduard Munk (page images at HathiTrust)
Repetition and parallelism in Tennyson (H. Frowde, Oxford university press: [etc., etc.], 1910), by Émile Lauvrière (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Milton's prosody with a chapter on accentual verse & notes (Clarendon Press, 1921), by Robert Bridges (page images at HathiTrust)
Humanities 1. Handbook ... (University of Chicago Bookstore, 1945), by University of Chicago (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Elements of English versification. (Ginn, 1913), by James Wilson Bright (page images at HathiTrust)
Anleitung zur Singcomposition (G.A. Lange, 1758), by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (page images at HathiTrust)
The complete poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe, with three essays on poetry (Oxford University Press, 1909), by Edgar Allan Poe and R. Brimley Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
Slant it and sell it; cash for your verse (Van Nort & Company, 1940), by Bess Samuel Ayres (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Prolegómenos de literatura (Estab. tip. La Antilla, 1859), by José Miguel Macías (page images at HathiTrust)
Die lyrischen Versmasse des Horaz : für Primaner erklärt (Weidmann, 1883), by Reinhold Köpke (page images at HathiTrust)
Prosodie de l'école moderne (Didier, 1844), by Wilhelm Ténint (page images at HathiTrust)
Teorii︠a︡ literatury : poėtika (Gos. izd-vo, 1925), by B. V. Tomashevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A dictionary of English literature ; authors, anonymous works, literary terms, versification, chronology (New York : Barnes & Noble, inc., 1945., 1945), by Homer Andrew Watt and William Whyte Watt (page images at HathiTrust)
Vvedenie v metriku : teorii͡a stikha (Academia, 1967), by Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
O cheshskom stikhe : preimushchestvenno v sopostavlenii s russkim (880-02 [Berlin] : OPOI︠A︡Z : MLK, 1923., 1923), by Roman Jakobson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rhymes and Meters: A Practical Manual for Versifiers, by Horatio Winslow (Gutenberg ebook)

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