For a discussion of narrative verse in general, see Gummere's _Poetics_
and _Oldest English Epic_, Hart's _Epic and Ballad_, Council's _Study of
Poetry_, and Matthew Arnold's essay "On Translating Homer."
For the further study of ballads, note G. L. Kittredge's one volume
edition of Child's _English and Scottish Popular Ballads_, Gummere's
_Popular Ballad_, G. H. Stempel's _Book of Ballads_, J. A. Lomax's _Cowboy
Songs and other Frontier Ballads_, and Hart's summary of Child's views in
_Pub. Mod. Lang. Ass._, vol. 21, 1906. The _Oxford Book of English Verse_,
Nos. 367-389, gives excellent specimens.
All handbooks on _Poetics_ discuss the Ode. Gosse's _English Odes_ and
William Sharp's _Great Odes_ are good collections.
For the sonnet, note Corson's chapter in his _Primer of English Verse_,
and the Introduction to Miss Lockwood's collection. There are other
well-known collections by Leigh Hunt, Hall Caine and William Sharp.
Special articles on the sonnet are noted in Poole's _Index_.
The dramatic monologue is well discussed by Claude Howard, _The Dramatic
Monologue_, and by S. S. Curry, _The Dramatic Monologue in Tennyson and
Browning_.