Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated AnthologyDavid Fairer, Christine Gerrard Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.
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Contents
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BEAUTY AND VANITY | 62 |
Thomas Parnell 16791718 | 64 |
Mary Leapor An Epistle to Artemisia | 381 |
Mary Leapor CrumbleHall l | 386 |
Mark Akenside 17211770 | 395 |
Alexander Pope WindsorForest t 115 | 398 |
Thomas Gray 17161771 | 412 |
Thomas Gray Ode on the Spring g | 413 |
Thomas Gray Sonnet on the Death of Richard West t | 414 |
Thomas Gray Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College | 415 |
Thomas Parnell Oft have I read d | 68 |
Matthew Prior 16641721 | 70 |
Matthew Prior An Epitaph | 72 |
Matthew Prior On a Pretty Madwoman | 75 |
Jonathan Swift 16671745 | 78 |
Jonathan Swift Stellas Birthday 1719 9 | 81 |
Jonathan Swift A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General | 86 |
Alexander Pope 16881744 | 114 |
Alexander Pope WindsorForest t | 115 |
James Thomson Spring 10041112 256 | 119 |
12148 2128 | 121 |
Isaac Watts The Adventurous Muse 17 | 126 |
Alexander Pope An Epistle to a Lady | 160 |
Alexander Pope The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated | 167 |
Alexander Pope An Essay on Man Epistle I | 183 |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 16891762 | 204 |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Saturday The SmallPox | 205 |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman | 208 |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Verses Addressd to the Imitator of Horace | 216 |
Aaron Hill 16851750 | 224 |
Aaron Hill The SingingBird | 227 |
Richard Savage c 16971743 | 231 |
Richard Savage Unconstant t | 234 |
Martha Fowke The Invitation from a Country Cottage | 237 |
Martha Fowke On Lady Chudleigh | 238 |
Martha Fowke Clios Picture | 239 |
t Martha Fowke A Letter to my Love | 242 |
James Thomson 17001748 | 245 |
James Thomson Winter A Poem | 246 |
James Thomson Winter A Poem 253300 | 253 |
James Thomson Spring 5826309831112 | 256 |
g John Dyer 16991757 | 283 |
John Dyer The Fleece Book III | 287 |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld A Summer Evenings Meditation 594 | 292 |
Stephen Duck 1705?1756 | 304 |
Stephen Duck The Threshers Labour r | 305 |
r Mary Collier 1688?1762 | 312 |
r Sarah Dixon 16711765 | 318 |
Sarah Dixon To the Muse | 319 |
Sarah Dixon From a Sheet of Gilt Paper To Cloe | 321 |
Mary Barber c 16851755 | 324 |
MARRIAGE | 330 |
Mehetabel Wright 16971750 | 332 |
Anne Ingram An Epistle to Mr Pope | 337 |
Aaron Hill The SingingBird d 227 | 338 |
Samuel Johnson 17091784 | 341 |
Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes 99120 191222 | 350 |
Mary Jones 17071778 | 361 |
t Mary Jones Of Desire 35118 | 364 |
Mary Jones Elegy On a Favourite Dog supposd to be poisond d | 368 |
Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes 31944 350 | 370 |
Mary Leapor 17221746 | 372 |
Mary Leapor An Epistle to a Lady | 375 |
Mary Leapor The Enquiry | 377 |
Thomas Gray Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat t | 417 |
NOCTURNAL MEDITATION | 419 |
Thomas Gray The Progress of Poesy | 423 |
Samuel Johnson London 341 | 428 |
William Collins 17211759 | 433 |
William Collins Ode on the Poetical Character | 435 |
William Collins Ode to Evening g | 440 |
William Collins Ode to Liberty | 441 |
Joseph Warton 17221800 | 452 |
Thomas Warton 17281790 | 462 |
Thomas Warton Ode written at ValeRoyal Abbey in Cheshire | 470 |
Thomas Warton Prologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse | 473 |
Robert Lloyd 17331764 | 478 |
An Epistle to Mr Garrick | 482 |
Charles Churchill 17311764 | 487 |
t Christopher Smart 17221771 | 497 |
Christopher Smart my Cat Jeoffry | 498 |
Christopher Smart A Song to David | 500 |
James Macpherson 17361796 | 519 |
Thomas Chatterton 17521770 | 523 |
Thomas Chatterton An Excelente Balade of Charitie | 526 |
Oliver Goldsmith 1730?1774 | 530 |
George Crabbe 17541832 | 541 |
Ann Yearsley 17531806 | 550 |
Ann Yearsley Clifton Hill l | 554 |
Ann Yearsley To Mr an Unlettered Poet | 562 |
t Robert Burns 17591796 | 565 |
Robert Burns To a Mouse | 567 |
271387 395 | 568 |
Robert Burns A Mans a Man for a That t | 578 |
t Anna Seward 17421809 | 581 |
Anna Seward Sonnet To the Poppy | 582 |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld 17431825 | 586 |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld The Mouses Petition | 592 |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld A Summer Evenings Meditation | 594 |
LOVE AND COURTSHIP | 597 |
t Anna Laetitia Barbauld To Mr Coleridge | 603 |
William Cowper 17311800 | 605 |
William Cowper The PoplarField d | 606 |
William Cowper Epitaph on a Hare | 607 |
William Cowper The Negros Complaint t | 627 |
THE IMAGINATION | 630 |
Mary Robinson 17581800 | 638 |
Mary Robinson The Poets Garret | 639 |
THE ROLE OF THE POET | 641 |
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY | 664 |
MUSIC | 667 |
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