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Forms of Verse

  • Alden, Raymond Macdonald. English verse, specimens illustrating its principles and history. New York: Holt 1904. PE 1505 A3 1904

     

  • Alpers, Paul. What is pastoral? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. PN 56 .P3A43 1996X

     

  • The Arte of English poesie. Attributed to George Puttenham. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. PN 1031/ .P82 St. Michael's College

     

  • Baker, Russell, ed. The Norton book of light verse. New York: Norton, 1986. PR 1195 .H8N67 1986

     

  • Benson, Louis F. The English hymn: its development and use in worship. Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1915. BV 312 B46 1915 Trinity College

     

  • Blyth, R. H. A History of haiku. 2 vols=2E Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1969. PL 729 B55 1968

     

  • Bond, Richmond P. English burlesque poetry, 1700-1750. Cambridge: University Press, 1932. PR 559 B8B6 1964

     

  • Brogan, T. V. F. English versification, 1570-1980: a reference guide with a global appendix. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Z 2015 .V37B76

     

  • Barfield, Owen. Poetic diction. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. PN 1031 B3

     

  • Chalker, John. The English georgic: a study in the development of a form. London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1969. PR 509 .D5C5 1969

     

  • Curran, Stuart. Poetic form and British Romanticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. PR 590 .C8 1986.

     

  • Donow, Herbert S. The Sonnet in England and America: a bibliography of criticism. Westport: Greenwood, 1982. Z 2014 .S6D66 1982

     

  • Falk, Robert P. The Antic muse: American writers in parody New York: Grove Press, 1956. PN 6231 .P3F3 1956

     

  • Finnegan, Ruth. Oral poetry: its nature, significance and social context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. PN 1341 F46

     

  • Fowler, D. C. A Literary history of the popular ballad. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1968. PR 507 .F6

     

  • Greene, Richard Leighton, ed. The Early English carols. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. PR 1195 C2G7 1977

     

  • Harrison, Jr., T. P., ed., and H. J. Leon, trans. The Pastoral elegy: an anthology. Austin: The University of Texas 1939. PN 6110 .C8H3 1939

     

  • Johnson, James Weldon, and J. Rosemond Johnson. Book of American Negro spirituals. New York: The Viking press, 1925. M 1670 .B685 1925 Music Library

     

  • Klein, Michael, ed. Poets for life: seventy-six poets respond to AIDS. New York: Crown, 1989. PS 595 .A36P64 1989

     

  • Kovacs, Edna Writing across cultures: a handbook on writing poetry and lyrical prose: from African drum song to blues, ghazal to haiku, villanelle to the zoo. Hillsboro, Oregon: Blue Heron Publishing, 1994. OISE 808.1 K88wr

     

  • Livingston, Carole Rose. British broadside ballads of the sixteenth century: a catalogue of the extant sheets and an essay. New York and London: Garland, 1991. Z 2014 B2L58 1991 Fisher Rare Book Library

     

  • Lomax, Alan. The Folk songs of North America. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960. M 1629 .L83F6 1960 Victoria College

     

  • Lomax, John A., and Alan. American ballads and folk songs. New York : Macmillan, 1934. M 1629 .L85A5 Music Library

     

  • Loomis, R. S. The Development of Arthurian romance. London: Hutchinson, 1963. PN 685 .L62

     

  • Loomis, R. S. and L. H., ed. Medieval romances. New York: Random House. PN 683 .L6

     

  • McCallough, Kathleen. Concrete poetry: an annotated international bibliography. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1989. PN 1455 .Z9M13 1989 Trinity College

     

  • MacDonald, Dwight, ed. Parodies: an anthology. New York: Random House, 1960. PN 6231 .P3M3

     

  • McFarland, Ronald E The Villanelle: the evolution of a poetic form. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1987. PR 509 V54M36 1987

     

  • Maddison, Carol. Apollo and the nine: a history of the ode. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1960. PN 1371 .M3

     

  • Pinto, V. de Sola, and Allen E. Rodway, eds. The Common muse. London: Chatto & Windus, 1957. PR 1187 .P67 1965 Victoria College [broadside ballads]

     

  • Piper, William Bowman. The Heroic couplet. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University, 1969. PR 509 .H4P5

     

  • Rose, Margaret A. Parody: ancient, modern, and post-modern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. PN 6149 =2EP3R59

     

  • Ross, Bruce, ed. Haiku moment: an anthology of contemporary North American haiku. 1993.

     

  • Sacks, Peter. The English elegy: studies in the genre from Spenser to Yeats. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1985. PR 509 .E4S23 1985

     

  • Schuler, Robert M. English magical and scientific poems to 1700: an annotated bibliography. New York and London: Garland, 1979. Z 2014 .P7S25

     

  • Sharp, Cecil J. Folk songs of England. 5 vols. London: Novello, 1908-12. M 1740 .S5F6 Music Libraryu

     

  • Smith, A. J. M., ed. Worldly muse: an anthology of serious light verse. New York: Abelard Press, 1951. PR 1175 .S484

     

  • Solt, Mary Ellen. Concrete poetry: a world view. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969. PN 6110 .C77S6

     

  • Spiller, Michael R. G. The Development of the sonnet: an introduction. London: Routledge, 1992. PR 539 .S7S65

     

  • Tufte, Virginia J. The Poetry of marriage: the epithalamium in Europe and its development in England . Los Angeles: Tinnon-Brown, 1970. PN 1481 .T8

     

  • Wells, Carolyn. A Parody anthology. 1904: New York: Dover, 1967. PN 6110 P3 W4 Erindale College

     

  • Whipple, T. K. Martial and the English epigram. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1925. PR 649 .E6W48

     

  • White, Gleeson Ballades and rondeaus, chants royal, sestinas, villanelles &c., selected with chapter on the various forms. New York: D. Appleton, 1888. PR 1194 W4 1888

     

  • Williams, Emmett, ed. An Anthology of concrete poetry. New York: Something Else Press, 1967. N 6490 .W48

     

  • Williams, Miller. Patterns of poetry: an encyclopedia of forms. Baton Rouge: Louisana State University Press, 1986. PN 1042 W514 1986