{"product_id":"eighteenthcentury-poetry-9781118824757","title":"EighteenthCentury Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurrently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBalanced to reflect current interests and favorites (including prominent poets like Finch, Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Gray, Burns, and Cowper) as well as less familiar material, offering a variety of voices and new directions for research and learning\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes 46 new poems with more texts by women poets and the inclusion of four additional poets (Mary Barber, Mehetabel Wright, Anna Seward, and Mary Robinson); poems reflecting new ecological approaches to 18th-century literature; and poems on the art of writing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAccessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, full foot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and a visually appealing text design\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFairer and Gerrard s third edition of Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is simply the one and only anthology to use when teaching 18 th-Century British Poetry. The selections are judicious but wide-ranging, offering readers the traditional canonical figures as well as newly-recuperated poets, both male and female. The annotations are superbly informative and authoritative. Bravissimo! John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected Contents by Theme xi  \u003cp\u003eAlphabetical List of Authors xxi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks xxii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction xxv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to Third Edition xxvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to Second Edition xxix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditorial Procedures xxx\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eText xxxi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xxxii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Pomfret (1667–1702) 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Choice 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Philips (1676–1709) 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Splendid Shilling 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Fyge Egerton (1670–1723) 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Liberty 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn my leaving London 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo One who said I must not Love 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emulation 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsaac Watts (1674–1748) 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Adventurous Muse 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmbrose Philips (1674–1749) 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Winter-Piece 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch (1661–1720) 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Spleen 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpon the Hurricane 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Nocturnal Rêverie 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tree 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Nightingale 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Sigh 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlass 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Agreeable 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay (1685–1732) 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriday; or, The Dirge 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrivia, Book II 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Man and the Flea 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Parnell (1679–1718) 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Elegy, To an Old Beauty 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Night-Piece on Death 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOft have I read 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior (1664–1721) 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor His own Epitaph 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epitaph 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lady’s Looking-Glass 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNon Pareil 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a Pretty Madwoman 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrue Statesmen 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift (1667–1745) 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Description of the Morning 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Description of a City Shower 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStella’s Birthday, 1719 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStella’s Birthday, 1721 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStella’s Birthday, 1727 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lady’s Dressing Room 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrephon and Chloe 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on the Death of Dr Swift 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope (1688–1744) 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWindsor-Forest 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rape of the Lock 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEloisa to Abelard 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to a Lady 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Essay on Man. Epistle I 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dunciad, 1743, Book I 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSaturday. The Small-Pox 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpistle from Arthur Gray the Footman 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpistle from Mrs Y[onge] to her Husband 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lover: A Ballad 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Lord Bathurst 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses Address’d to the Imitator of Horace (with Lord Hervey) 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dean’s Provocation for Writing the Lady’s Dressing-Room 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on Self-Murder 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Hymn to the Moon 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill (1685–1750) 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBellaria, at her Spinnet 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhitehall Stairs 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Singing-Bird 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Savage (c.1697–1743) 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bastard 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnconstant 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke (1689–1736) 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Innocent Inconstant 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Invitation from a Country Cottage 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Lady Chudleigh 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClio’s Picture 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn being charged with Writing incorrectly 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Letter to my Love.—All alone, past 12, in the Dumps 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson (1700–1748) 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinter. A Poem (1726) 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpring 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dyer (1699–1757) 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrongar Hill 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fleece, Book III 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Duck (1705?–1756) 304\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Thresher’s Labour 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier (1688?–1762) 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Woman’s Labour 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Dixon (1671–1765) 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrephon to the River 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Return’d Heart 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Muse 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLines Occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber (c.1685–1755) 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a Lady, who commanded me to send her an Account in Verse, how I succeeded in my Subscription 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten for my Son, and Spoken by him at his first putting on Breeches 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMehetabel Wright (1697–1750) 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWedlock: A Satire 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddress to Her Husband 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Ingram (c.1696–1764) 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Mr Pope. By a Lady. Occasioned by his Characters of Women 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eviii Contents (Short Titles)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson (1709–1784) 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLondon 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vanity of Human Wishes 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Death of Dr Robert Levet 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones (1707–1778) 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle To Lady Bowyer 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf Desire. An Epistle to the Hon. Miss Lovelace 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElegy, On a favourite Dog, suppos’d to be poison’d 368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the Small Pox 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor (1722–1746) 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDorinda at Her Glass 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to a Lady 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Enquiry 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMan the Monarch 379\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Artemisia 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret 385\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrumble-Hall 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMira’s Picture 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoto. A Character 393\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Akenside (1721–1770) 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pleasures of Imagination, 1744, Book I 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray (1716–1771) 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Spring 413\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet on the Death of Richard West 414\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Death of a Favourite Cat 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Progress of Poesy 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bard 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins (1721–1759) 433\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Song from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline 433\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Poetical Character 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Fear 437\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Evening 440\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Liberty 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Passions. An Ode for Music 446\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Death of Mr Thomson 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton (1722–1800) 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Evening 459\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dying Indian 460\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton (1728–1790) 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pleasures of Melancholy 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet: To the River Lodon 472\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse, over the butcher’s shambles 473\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window 474\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd (1733–1764) 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cit’s Country Box 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShakespeare: An Epistle to Mr Garrick 482\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Churchill (1731–1764) 487\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNight 487\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Smart (1722–1771) 497\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘My Cat Jeoffry’ 498\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Song to David 500\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a Bed of Guernsey Lilies 517\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Macpherson (1736–1796) 519\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFragments of Ancient Poetry: 7 and 8 519\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton (1752–1770) 523\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMynstrelles Songe 523\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Stay, curyous traveller’ 525\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Excelente Balade of Charitie 526\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774) 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Deserted Village 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Crabbe (1754–1832) 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Village, Book I 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley (1753–1806) 550\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Stella; on a Visit to Mrs Montagu 551\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Mrs Montagu 552\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClifton Hill 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Indifference 561\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr ****, an Unlettered Poet 562\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns (1759–1796) 565\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rigs o’ Barley 566\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a Mouse 567\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a Louse 568\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoly Willie’s Prayer 570\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTam o’ Shanter 573\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Man’s a Man for a’ That 578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Seward (1742–1809) 581\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet. To Honora Sneyd 581\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet. To the Poppy 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColebrooke Dale 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCorsica 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mouse’s Petition 592\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Summer Evening’s Meditation 594\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr Barbauld 597\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rights of Woman 598\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a little invisible Being 599\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWashing-Day 600\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr Coleridge 603\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper (1731–1800) 605\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Hatred and Vengeance’ 606\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poplar-Field 606\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpitaph on a Hare 607\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Task, Book I 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Negro’s Complaint 627\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYardley Oak 629\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Ice-islands 634\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cast-away 635\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Robinson (1758–1800) 638\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLondon’s Summer Morning 638\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poet’s Garret 639\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Birth-day 641\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 644\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Titles and First Lines 650\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Contents by Theme\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 WOMEN’S ROLE IN SOCIETY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Fyge Egerton, The Liberty 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emulation 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, The Spleen 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to a Lady 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, On Lady Chudleigh 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Ingram, An Epistle to Mr Pope 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, Of Desire 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, Man the Monarch 379\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, The Rights of Woman 598\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWashing-Day 600\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 BEAUTY AND VANITY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, The Agreeable 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Parnell, An Elegy, To an Old Beauty 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, Stella’s Birthday, 1719 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStella’s Birthday, 1721 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lady’s Dressing Room 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrephon and Chloe, 1–38 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, 1:121–48, 2:1–28 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to a Lady 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Saturday. The Small-Pox 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, Clio’s Picture 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Ingram, An Epistle to Mr Pope 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, 319–44 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, After the Small Pox 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, Dorinda at Her Glass 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMira’s Picture 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, 1:271–387 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, To a Louse 568\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Seward, Sonnet. To the Poppy 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 LOVE AND COURTSHIP\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Fyge Egerton, To One who said I must not Love 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, A Sigh 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, The Lady’s Looking-Glass 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lover: A Ballad 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Whitehall Stairs 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Savage, Unconstant 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, The Innocent Inconstant 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Letter to my Love 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Spring, 582–630, 983–1112 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Dixon, Strephon to the River 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Return’d Heart 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLines occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, The Rigs o’ Barley 566\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, To Mr Barbauld 597\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 MARRIAGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, An Epitaph 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle from Mrs Y[onge] to her Husband 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Spring, 1113–76. 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMehetabel Wright, Wedlock: A Satire 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddress to Her Husband 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, To Mr Barbauld 597\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier, The Woman’s Labour, 105–20 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, Written for my Son, and Spoken by him at his first putting on Breeches 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMehetabel Wright, To an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, Clifton Hill, 67–92 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, To a little invisible Being 599\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWashing-Day 600\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 HUMANS AND ANIMALS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, To the Nightingale 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay, The Man and the Flea 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Windsor-Forest, 43–164 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Essay on Man, 1:77–90, 173–246 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, The Singing-Bird 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Winter. A Poem, 216–52 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpring, 336–442 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, Elegy, On a Favourite Dog, suppos’d to be poison’d 368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Prologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse 473\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Smart, ‘my Cat Jeoffry’ 498\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, To a Mouse 567\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a Louse 568\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, The Mouse’s Petition 592\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, Epitaph on a Hare 607\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Contents by Theme xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 THE NATURAL WORLD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmbrose Philips, A Winter-Piece 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, Upon the Hurricane 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Nocturnal Rêverie 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tree 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Windsor-Forest 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Winter. A Poem 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpring 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dyer, Grongar Hill 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, The Enquiry 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Ode on the Spring 413\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode to Evening 440\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Evening 459\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton, An Excelente Balade of Charitie 526\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, Clifton Hill 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Seward, Colebrooke Dale 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Poplar-Field 606\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Task, 1:103–454 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYardley Oak 629\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Ice-islands 634\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 URBAN LIFE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Philips, The Splendid Shilling 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay, Trivia, Book II 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Description of a City Shower 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, The Dunciad, 1743, Book I 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Saturday. The Small-Pox 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Whitehall Stairs 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dyer, The Fleece, 3:224–348 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, London 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Prologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse 473\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Seward, Colebrooke Dale, 44–73 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Task, 1:678–774 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Robinson, London’s Summer Morning 638\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poet’s Garret 639\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Birth-day 641\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 HOUSES AND GARDENS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Pomfret, The Choice 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Epistle to Burlington 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, An Epistle to Lord Bathurst 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Spring, 904–62 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, London, 194–223 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, Crumble-Hall 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Task, 1:210–51 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 RURAL LIFE AND LABOUR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay, Friday; or, The Dirge 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Parnell, Oft have I read 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, The Invitation from a Country Cottage 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dyer, The Fleece, Book III 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, Crumble-Hall 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Crabbe, The Village, Book I 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, Clifton Hill 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, To a Mouse 567\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 SOCIAL CHANGE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, Upon the Hurricane 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, Crumble-Hall 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Crabbe, The Village, Book I 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton, An Excelente Balade of Charitie 526\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, A Man’s a Man for a’ That 578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Seward, Colebrooke Dale 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Negro’s Complaint 627\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Robinson, The Birth-day 641\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 NOCTURNAL MEDITATION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, A Nocturnal Rêverie 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Parnell, A Night-Piece on Death 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, A Hymn to the Moon 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, A Letter to my Love 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode to Evening 440\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature, 200–32 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Evening 459\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, The Pleasures of Melancholy 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Churchill, Night 487\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, A Summer Evening’s Meditation 594\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 THE ROLE OF THE POET\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsaac Watts, The Adventurous Muse 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, To the Nightingale 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Contents by Theme xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dunciad, 1743, Book I 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Verses Address’d to the Imitator of Horace 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, The Singing-Bird 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, On Lady Chudleigh 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn being charged with Writing incorrectly 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Dixon, To the Muse 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, To a Lady 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, An Epistle to Artemisia 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bard 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Death of Mr Thomson 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, Shakespeare: An Epistle to Mr Garrick 482\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, To Mr ****, an Unlettered Poet 562\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, To Mr Coleridge 603\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Robinson, The Poet’s Garret 639\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 LITERARY PATRONAGE AND THE ECONOMICS OF AUTHORSHIP\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Philips, The Splendid Shilling 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dunciad, 1743, Book I 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, To a Lady 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, London 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vanity of Human Wishes, 73–90 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, An Epistle to Lady Bowyer 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, An Epistle to Artemisia 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret 385\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Robinson, The Poet’s Garret 639\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 AUTOBIOGRAPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Fyge Egerton, The Liberty 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn my leaving London 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo One who said I must not Love 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, The Spleen 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, For His own Epitaph 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Verses on Self-Murder 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Savage, The Bastard 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, A Letter to my Love 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Dixon, To the Muse 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMehetabel Wright, Address to Her Husband 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, An Epistle to Lady Bowyer 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, An Epistle to a Lady 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Artemisia 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMira’s Picture 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Sonnet on the Death of Richard West 414\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Sonnet: To the River Lodon 472\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, To Stella; on a Visit to Mrs Montagu 551\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Mrs Montagu 552\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Indifference 561\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, Washing-Day 600\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Task, 1:103–80 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 RECOVERING THE PAST\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Windsor-Forest 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dyer, Grongar Hill 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, Crumble-Hall 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Progress of Poesy 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bard 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode to Liberty 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window 474\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry: 7 and 8 519\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton, Mynstrelles Songe 523\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Stay, curyous traveller’ 525\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Excelente Balade of Charitie 526\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Seward, Colebrooke Dale 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 CONTEMPLATING DEATH\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay, Friday; or, The Dirge 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Parnell, A Night-Piece on Death 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, For His own Epitaph 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epitaph 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on the Death of Dr Swift 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Verses on Self-Murder 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, On Lady Chudleigh 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMehetabel Wright, To an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Death of Dr Robert Levet 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, Elegy, On a Favourite Dog, suppos’d to be poison’d 368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Sonnet on the Death of Richard West 414\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Death of a Favourite Cat 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, A Song from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline 433\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Death of Mr Thomson 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton, The Dying Indian 460\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton, Mynstrelles Songe 523\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, Clifton Hill, 73–92 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, The Mouse’s Petition 592\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, ‘Hatred and vengeance’ 606\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpitaph on a Hare 607\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cast-away 635\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 MADNESS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, The Spleen 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, On a Pretty Madwoman 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Spring, 1004–1112 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode to Fear 437\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, Clifton Hill, 206–96 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Indifference 561\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Task, 1:534–56 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 VISIONS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsaac Watts, The Adventurous Muse 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Parnell, A Night-Piece on Death 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto IV 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEloisa to Abelard 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Bellaria, at her Spinnet 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, A Letter to my Love 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Winter. A Poem, 253–300 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, The Enquiry 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, 1:151–221 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bard 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Fear 437\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Passions. An Ode for Music 446\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature, 180–252 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, The Pleasures of Melancholy 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Smart, A Song to David 500\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, A Summer Evening’s Meditation 594\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr Coleridge 603\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 THE IMAGINATION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, The Spleen 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, The Lady’s Dressing Room 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Spring, 443–79 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, Book I 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003exviii Selected Contents by Theme\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window 474\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 LIBERTY\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Fyge Egerton, The Liberty 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, A Nocturnal Rêverie 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, The Singing-Bird 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Savage, The Bastard 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Dixon, Lines occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode to Liberty 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Churchill, Night 487\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, A Man’s a Man for a’ That 578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, Corsica 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Negro’s Complaint 627\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 GOD IN NATURE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, Upon the Hurricane 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay, The Man and the Flea 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistle I 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Winter. A Poem 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpring, 556–71, 849–903 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, The Enquiry 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, 1:56–78 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Smart, A Song to David 500\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a Bed of Guernsey Lilies 517\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, A Summer Evening’s Meditation 594\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 WEALTH AND POVERTY\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Philips, The Splendid Shilling 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Epistle to Burlington 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, The Invitation from a Country Cottage 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, London 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vanity of Human Wishes, 21–8 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton, An Excelente Balade of Charitie 526\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Crabbe, The Village, Book I 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, A Man’s a Man for a’ That 578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Robinson, The Poet’s Garret 639\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Birth-day 641\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 ART AND NATURE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, Glass 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Epistle to Burlington 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Contents by Theme xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, An Epistle to Lord Bathurst 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, The Invitation from a Country Cottage 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClio’s Picture 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, Written for my Son, and Spoken by him at his first putting on Breeches 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window 474\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Task, 1:409–35 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 PORTRAITS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, The Agreeable 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, An Epitaph 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNon Pareil 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on the Death of Dr Swift, 307–484 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, An Epistle to a Lady 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 193–214, 305–33 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dunciad, 1743, 1:107–46 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Bellaria, at her Spinnet 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Savage, Unconstant 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, The Innocent Inconstant 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Lady Chudleigh 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClio’s Picture 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, 99–120, 191–222 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Death of Dr Robert Levet 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, Of Desire, 35–118 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, An Epistle to Artemisia 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMira’s Picture 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoto. A Character 393\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Smart, ‘My Cat Jeoffry’ 498\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 189–218 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Crabbe, The Village, 1:184–227, 276–319 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, Clifton Hill, 206–96 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, Corsica, 107–32 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Task, 1:534–56, 633–77 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 MUSIC\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, To the Nightingale 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Bellaria, at her Spinnet 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, 1:109–38 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, The Passions. An Ode for Music 446\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 LETTERS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpistle to Burlington 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to a Lady 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003exx Selected Contents by Theme\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpistle from Mrs Y[onge] to her Husband 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Lord Bathurst 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, A Letter to my Love 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Dixon, From a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLines occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, An Epistle to Lady Bowyer 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf Desire 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, An Epistle to a Lady 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Artemisia 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, Shakespeare: An Epistle to Mr Garrick 482\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 POLITICS, POWER, AND THE STATE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, Upon the Hurricane 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, True Statesmen 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on the Death of Dr Swift, 299–484 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Windsor-Forest 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, London 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, The Bard 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode to Liberty 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Churchill, Night 487\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, Corsica 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Negro’s Complaint 627\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 LYRIC\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, A Sigh 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, Non Pareil 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, A Hymn to the Moon 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, A Song from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline 433\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton, Mynstrelles Songe 523\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, The Rigs o’ Barley 566\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406929404247,"sku":"9781118824757","price":32.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118824757.jpg?v=1730497590","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eighteenthcentury-poetry-9781118824757","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}