{"product_id":"british-literature-16401789-9781118952481","title":"British Literature 16401789","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA thoroughly updated new edition of this popular anthology which focuses firmly on the eighteenth century without neglecting the seventeenth century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains new texts including the play \u003ci\u003eRover\u003c\/i\u003e by Aphra Behn, and \u003ci\u003eBeggars'' Opera\u003c\/i\u003e by John Gay; increased canonical works, including works by Dryden, Pope, and Johnson; and historical contextual materials,with particualr attention to the Americas\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures updated introductions throughout, taking into acccount recent critical works and editions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes useful resources such as an alternative list of contents by theme, and a chronolgy of literary and political events, providing valuable historical and cultural context\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This commitment to the restoration of many overlooked and sidelined writers makes it an essential intervention, and a valuable contribution to the changing face of eighteenth-century literary studies. On this front, it is to be hoped that editors of future anthologies follow DeMaria’s example.” -- The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 98 (2019)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Authors xvii \u003cp\u003eChronology xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThematic Table of Contents xxvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction xxxvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditorial Principles xlv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to the Fourth Edition xlvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xlix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBallads and Newsbooks from the Civil War (1640–1649) 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe World is Turned Upside Down (1646) 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe King’s Last farewell to the World, or The Dead King’s Living Meditations, at the approach of Death denounced against Him (1649) 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Royal Health to the Rising Sun (1649) 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom A Perfect Diurnal of Some Passages in Parliament (1649) 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNumber 288, 29 January–5 February 1649 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Mercurius Pragmaticus (1649) 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNumber 43, 30 January–6 February 1649 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Hobbes (1588–1679) 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Leviathan (1651) 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter XIII: Of the NATURAL CONDITION of Mankind, as concerning their Felicity, and Misery 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Herrick (1591–1674) 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Hesperides (1648) 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Argument of His Book 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Daffodils 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Night-piece, to Julia 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpon Julia’s Clothes 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen he would have his verses read 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDelight in Disorder 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Virgins, to make much of Time 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis Return to London 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pillar of Fame 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Milton (1608–1674) 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; Restored to the Good of Both Sexes, From the bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to Christian freedom, guided by the Rule of Charity. Wherein also many places of Scripture, have recovered their long-lost meaning. Seasonable to be now thought on in the Reformation intended. (1643) 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook I: The Preface 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Chapter I 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Chapter VI 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Poems (1673) 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet 18 (1655) On the Late Massacre in Piemont 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet 19 (1652?) “When I Consider how my Light is Spent” 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet 16 [To the Lord General Cromwell, 1652] 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Paradise Lost (1667) 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Verse 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook I 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook II 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook IV 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook IX 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbraham Cowley (1618–1667) 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnacreontiques: Or, Some Copies of Verses Translated Paraphrastically out of Anacreon 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Royal Society 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrew Marvell (1621–1678) 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Miscellaneous Poems (1681) 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Coronet 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBermudas (1653?) 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mower to the Glo-Worms (1651–2?) 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland (1650) 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Garden (1651–2?) 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a Drop of Dew (1651–2?) 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo his Coy Mistress (c.1645) 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673) 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Poems and Fancies (1653) 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoets have most Pleasure in this Life 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Description of a New World, called the Blazing World (1666) 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Bunyan (1628–1688) 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dryden (1631–1700) 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo My Honoured Friend, Dr Charleton, on his learned and useful Works; and more particularly this of STONE-HENGE, by him Restored to the true\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFounders (1663) 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMac Flecknoe (1676?) 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbsalom and Achitophel: A Poem (1681) 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Memory of Mr. Oldham (1684) 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young LADY Mrs. Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesy, and Painting. An Ode (1686) 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSong for St. Cecilia’s Day (1687) 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander’s Feast 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Fables Ancient and Modern (1700) 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePygmalion and the Statue 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecular Masque 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKatherine Philips (1632–1664) 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Poems by the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda (1667) 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriendship 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriendship’s Mystery, To my dearest Lucasia 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpitaph On her Son H. P. at St. Syth’s Church where her body also lies Interred 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Virgin 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the truly competent Judge of Honour, Lucasia, upon a scandalous Libel made by J. J. 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mrs. Wogan, my Honoured Friend, on the Death of her Husband 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrinda to Lucasia 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParting with Lucasia, A Song 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Antenor, on a Paper of mine which J. J. threatens to publish to prejudice him 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Locke (1632–1704) 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom An Essay concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government (1690) 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Chapter 1 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Chapter 2 Of the State of Nature 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Chapter 4 Of Slavery 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Chapter 5 Of Property 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Pepys (1633–1703) 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Diary 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJuly 1665 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAugust 1665 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAphra Behn (1640?–1689) 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Poems upon Several Occasions (1684) 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Golden Age: A Paraphrase on a Translation out of French 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Disappointment 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Lycidus: or the Lover in Fashion (1688) 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImagined More than Woman 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rover: Or, The Banished Cavaliers (1677) 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOroonoko: or, the Royal Slave. A True History (1688) 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Imperfect Enjoyment 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Ramble in Saint James’s Park 378\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Satyr against Reason and Mankind 382\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Disabled Debauchee 387\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLampoon 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e[Signior Dildo] 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Satire on Charles II 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Letter from Artemiza in the Town to Chloe in the Country 392\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDaniel Defoe (1660–1731) 399\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom An Essay upon Projects (1698) 400\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Academy for Women 400\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The True-Born Englishman: A Satire (1700) 406\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I 406\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Shortest-Way with the Dissenters: Or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church (1702) 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, The next Day after Her Death: To One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury. The 8th of September, 1705 (1706) 425\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the London Gazette 431\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMonday, 11 January to Thursday, 14 January 1702 431\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720) 432\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Introduction 432\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLife’s Progress 434\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdam Posed 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Petition for an Absolute Retreat 436\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Nightingale 442\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Poem for the Birth-day of the Right Honourable the Lady Catharine Tufton 443\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Atheist and the Acorn 445\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Unequal Fetters 446\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Answer (to Pope’s Impromptu) 447\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Spleen: A Pindaric Poem (1701; revised 1713) 448\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Astell (1666–1731) 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest. By a Lover of her Sex (1694) 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift (1667–1745) 455\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Tale of a Tub Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind (1704) 457\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to Their Parents or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public (1729) 527\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Description of the Morning (1709) 533\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lady’s Dressing Room (1732) 534\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed Written\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efor the Honour of the Fair Sex (1734) 537\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Description of a City Shower (1710) 539\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStella’s Birth-Day (13 March 1719) 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDelarivier Manley (c.1670–1724) 542\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean (1709) 543\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Congreve (1670–1729) 556\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Way of the World (1700) 557\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Addison (1672–1719) and Richard Steele (1672–1729) 619\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Spectator 620\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNumber 11, Tuesday, March 13, 1711 [Inkle and Yarico] 620\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNumber 159, Saturday, September 1, 1711 [The Visions of Mirzah] 622\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsaac Watts (1674–1748) 626\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children (1715) 626\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgainst Quarrelling and Fighting 626\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sluggard 627\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAllan Ramsay (1684–1758) 628\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Poems of Allan Ramsay (1800) 628\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolwart on the Green (1721) 628\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGive Me a Lass with a Lump of Land (1721) 629\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay (1685–1732) 630\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Beggar’s Opera (1728) 631\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope (1688–1744) 678\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Essay on Criticism (1711) 679\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe RAPE of the LOCK. An Heroi-Comical Poem (1714) 696\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEloisa to Abelard (1717) 717\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Dunciad Variorum (1729) 725\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartinus Scriblerus, of the Poem 725\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDunciados Periocha: or, Arguments to the Books 727\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dunciad, Book the First 729\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Letters 738\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1 September 1718) 738\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier (1688?–1762) 741\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Woman’s Labour: An Epistle To Mr. Stephen Duck; In Answer to his late Poem, called The Thresher’s Labour… (1739) 741\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) 748\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom LETTERS Of the Right Honourable Lady M–y W—y M—u: Written, during her Travels in EUROPE, ASIA and AFRICA, TO Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, \u0026amp;c. in different Parts of Europe. WHICH CONTAIN, Among other CURIOUS Relations, Accounts of the POLICY and MANNERS of the TURKS; Drawn from Sources that have been inaccessible to other Travellers 748\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Lady X —— 749\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Lady —— 750\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e[To Lady Mar] 752\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr. [Alexander] Pope 755\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr. [Alexander] P[ope] 756\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lover (1721–5) 758\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reasons that Induced Dr. S[wift] to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room (1732–4) 759\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Memory of Mr Congreve (1729?) 761\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e[A Summary of Lord Lyttelton’s advice to a Lady] (1731–3) 762\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrials at the Old Bailey (1722–1727) 763\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Select TRIALS at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey (1742) 763\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eH —— J ——, for a Rape, 1722 763\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGabriel Lawrence, for Sodomy, April, 1726 765\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Picart, alias Gandon, for Bigamy, June, 1725 766\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Savage, James Gregory, and William Merchant, for Murder, Thursday, Dec. 7, 1727 767\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEliza Fowler Haywood (1693–1756) 772\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFantomina: OR, Love in a Maze (1724) 772\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson (1700–1748) 791\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinter. A Poem (1726) 791\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Duck (1705–1756) 802\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Poems on Several Subjects (1730) 802\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Thresher’s Labour 802\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones (1707–1778) 805\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1750) 805\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoliloquy, on an Empty Purse 805\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the Small Pox 806\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHer Epitaph 807\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson (1709–1784) 809\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl of Rivers (1744) 811\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) 816\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Rambler 825\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNumber 2, Saturday, 24 March 1750 825\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNumber 28, Saturday, 23 June 1750 828\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNumber 207, Tuesday, 10 March, 1752 831\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Idler 834\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNumber 22, Saturday, 9 September 1758 834\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNumber 81, Saturday, 3 November 1759 836\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) 837\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759) 845\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765) 906\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Hume (1711–1776) 914\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Essays Moral and Political (1742) 914\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf the Liberty of the Press 914\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects (1777) 917\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMy Own Life 917\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJane Collier (1714\/15–1755) 923\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Pleasant Art (1753) 923\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray (1716–1771) 932\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLetter to Richard West (1741) 933\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West] (1742) 934\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Death of a Favourite Cat (1748) 934\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) 936\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode (1768) 939\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins (1721–1759) 944\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects (1747) 944\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Fear 944\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpode 945\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAntistrophe 946\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Poetical Character 946\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1748) 949\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Evening 949\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor (1722–1746) 951\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Poems on Several Occasions (1748) 951\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Month of August 951\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to a Lady 953\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMira’s Will 955\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Poems on Several Occasions (1751) 956\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Essay on Woman 956\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrumble-Hall 958\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMan the Monarch 962\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Smart (1722–1771) 965\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Jubilate Agno (c.1758–63) 966\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Fragment A (c.1758–9) 966\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Fragment B (1759–60) 966\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamson Occom (1723–1792) 970\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian 970\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe PREFACE 970\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION 971\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSERMON 971\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Newton (1725–1807) 982\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHYMN XLI [Amazing Grace] 982\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith (1728?–1774) 984\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Revolution in Low Life (1762) 984\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Deserted Village, a Poem (1770) 986\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdmund Burke (1729–1797) 997\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757), Part 2 998\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection 1, Of the Passion caused by the SUBLIME 998\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection 2, TERROR 998\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection 3, OBSCURITY 998\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection 4, Of the difference between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with regard to the passions 999\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection [5], The same subject continued 1000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection 13, Beautiful objects small 1002\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection 14, SMOOTHNESS 1002\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection 15, Gradual VARIATION 1003\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection 16, DELICACY 1004\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event In a Letter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntended to have been sent to a Gentleman In Paris (1790) 1004\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper (1731–1800) 1019\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a Goldfinch Starved to Death in his Cage (1782) 1020\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpitaph on an Hare (1784) 1020\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Immortal Memory of the Halibut on which I Dined this Day (1784) 1021\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Negro’s Complaint (1789) 1022\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a Spaniel Called Beau Killing a Young Bird (1793) 1024\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeau’s Reply 1024\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Ice Islands Seen floating in the German Ocean (1799) 1025\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Castaway (1799) 1027\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Macpherson (1736–1796) 1029\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language (1762) 1029\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Book IV 1029\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Paine (1737–1809) 1032\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Common Sense (1776) 1033\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution 1033\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The American Crisis (1777) 1036\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNumber 1 1036\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Rights of Man: being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution (1791) 1037\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe American Declaration of Independence (1776) 1040\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Boswell (1740–1795) 1044\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Life of Dr Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) 1044\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHester Lynch Thrale Piozzi (1741–1821) 1058\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the Last Twenty Years of his Life (1786) 1058\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Correspondence with Samuel Johnson (1773–5) 1060\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Aiken Barbauld (1743–1825) 1063\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Poems (1792) 1063\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mouse’s Petition 1063\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses Written in an Alcove 1065\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Monthly Magazine (1797) 1066\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWashing-Day 1066\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOlaudah Equiano (1745?–1797) 1069\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789) 1069\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 1069\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHannah More (1745–1833) 1082\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Sensibility (1782) 1082\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Slave Trade (1790) 1084\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) 1088\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe School for Scandal (1777) 1088\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton (1752–1770) 1137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Poems, Supposed to have been Written at Bristol, By\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century (1777) 1137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Excelente Balade of Charitie: As wroten bie the gode Prieste Thomas Rowley, 1464 1137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrances Burney (later d’Arblay) (1752–1840) 1141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Journals and Letters 1142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27–8 March 1777 1142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 March 1812 1144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Cromartie Yearsley (1753–1806) 1154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Poems on Several Occasions (1785) 1154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Mrs. Montagu 1154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Poems on Various Subjects (1787) 1156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Indifference 1156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo those who accuse the Author of Ingratitude 1157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Blake (1757–1827) 1159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Songs of Innocence (1789) 1159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lamb 1160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Little Black Boy 1161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Chimney Sweeper 1161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoly Thursday 1162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfant Joy 1162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Songs of Experience (1794) 1163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoly Thursday 1163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Chimney Sweeper 1164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tyger 1164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAh! Sun-Flower 1165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns (1759–1796) 1166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786) 1166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpistle to Davie, A Brother Poet 1166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a Mouse, On turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785 1171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddress to the Deil 1172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) 1177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) 1177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Titles and First Lines 1180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex to the Introductions and Footnotes 1184\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528842518871,"sku":"9781118952481","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118952481.jpg?v=1731873238","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/british-literature-16401789-9781118952481","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}