Poetry

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914

The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10

John Dryden

Volume 10 of the first‑collected edition of John Dryden’s works presents a scholarly appraisal of his poem…

The Beginnings of Poetry

Francis Barton Gummere

The work is a scholarly survey that treats poetry as a social institution rather than as a matter of…

Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism

Donald Lemen Clark

This scholarly work is a detailed study of how classical rhetorical terminology shaped English literary…

The Book of Humorous Verse

The Book of Humorous Verse is a carefully curated compilation rather than an exhaustive anthology, assembled…

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Herman Melville

Melville’s Battle‑Pieces and Aspects of the War is a sprawling poetic chronicle of the American Civil War,…

Trees, and Other Poems

Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer’s Trees, and Other Poems is a modestly sized collection that opens with a lyrical dedication,…

Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems.

Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller’s Life Without and Life Within gathers together a varied assortment of reviews, essays, and…

The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems

Hanford Lennox Gordon

The volume is a miscellany of poems by Hanford Lennox Gordon, a former lawyer who turned to verse after a…

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01

Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene is Edmund Spenser’s ambitious early‑modern English poem, conceived as a series of…

Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture

Palmer Cox

Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture is a sprawling collection of Palmer Cox’s comic sketches, verses…

Young Adventure: A Book of Poems

Stephen Vincent Benét

The volume is a collection of poems by Stephen Vincent Benét, presented under the title Young Adventure.

Trekkerswee Met tekeninge van J.H. Pierneef

Totius

The work is an Afrikaans verse narrative that traces the fortunes of a farming family on the Rand from the…

The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations

Emma Lazarus

The volume gathers Emma Lazarus’s early Jewish poems and translations, presenting the work that first…

The New-York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository Forming an Interesting Collection of Original and Select Literary Productions in Prose and Verse

The New‑York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository, is a late‑eighteenth‑century American periodical…

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus

This volume presents the English rendering of the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a collaborative effort…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron

The Germ: Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art

Various

The work is a reflective essay on the early Pre‑Raphaelite movement, written by a contemporary who claims…

The Works of Thomas Hood; Vol. 01 (of 11) Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, With All the Original Illustrations

Thomas Hood

The first volume of Thomas Hood’s collected works presents a sweeping anthology that mixes comic and serious…

The Hound of Heaven

Francis Thompson

The work is not a narrative but a scholarly essay that opens with a vivid recollection of a Japanese…

Moorish Literature Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabyles, Folk-Lore, and National Traditions

The work is a scholarly anthology that gathers the oral and written output of the peoples historically…

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 4. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 4 presents a scholarly meditation on Robert Burns’s place within the…

Sonnets and madrigals of Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The volume gathers the surviving sonnets and madrigals penned by Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Renaissance…