Description
Book SynopsisThis concise collection of poetry from 1660-1789 offers readers authoritative texts of the central works of the age.
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- Provides readers with authoritative texts of key poems from 1660-1789.
- Focuses on those works most widely taught at schools and universities.
- Offers students an accessible digest of the poetry of the period.
- Demonstrates the range of poetry written between the restoration of the monarchy and the beginnings of the Romantic movement.
Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface.
Introduction: Duncan Wu.
1. John Milton (1608-1674):.
Paradise Lost.
Book I.
Book Ii.
2. John Dryden (1631-1700): Absalom And Achitophel:.
A Poem To The Memory Of Mr Oldham.
A Song For St Cecilia’s Day.
3. John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester (1647-1680):.
The Imperfect Enjoyment.
A Satyr Against Reason And Mankind.
The Disabled Debauchee.
Lampoon [On The Women About Town].
Signior Dildo.
A Satyr On Charles Ii.
A Letter From Artemiza In The Town To Chloe In The Country.
A Ramble In Saint James’s Park.
Song (‘Fair Cloris In A Pigsty Lay’).
A Song (‘Absent From Thee I Languish Still’).
4. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745):.
A Description Of The Morning.
A Description Of A City Shower.
Strephon And Chloe.
The Lady’s Dressing Room.
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed.
Cassinus And Peter. A Tragical Elegy.
Verses On The Death Of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D.
5. Alexander Pope (1688-1744):.
Epistle To Miss Blount, With The Works Of Voiture.
The Rape Of The Lock.
Eloisa To Abelard.
Elegy To The Memory Of An Unfortunate Lady.
6. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784):.
The Vanity Of Human Wishes.
7. Thomas Gray (1716-1771):.
Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College.
Sonnet [On The Death Of Mr Richard West].
Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat.
Elegy Written In A Country Church-Yard.
8.William Collins (1721-1759):.
Ode To Fear.
Ode To Evening.
9. Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774):.
The Deserted Village, A Poem.
Index Of Titles And First Lines.
