The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

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Roger H. Lonsdale, Roger Lonsdale
Oxford University Press, 1984 - 870 páginas
Anthologies of eighteenth-century verse have tended to confirm traditional notions of the period as one of untroubled elegance, urbanity, and decorum. Offering over 550 poems and extracts by more than 250 poets, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse presents a truer picture of this age as a much less stable and decorous time.
This extraordinarily comprehensive volume includes not only a generous selection of verse by such renowned poets as Swift, Pope, Johnson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Blake, and Burns, but also a large number of poems by lesser-known and previously ignored poets. Intermixing the familiar styles and preoccupations of "polite" taste with much less familiar verse from all social levels, it reveals the willingness of the century's poets to respond graphically, humorously, or unconventionally to all aspects of rural and urban life. Topics range from golf and hypnotism to amorous adventure and marital discord, from growing sensitivity to natural beauty to fear of the effects of the Industrial Revolution, and from the anguish of poverty and unemployment to animated political exchanges in the wake of the French Revolution. Taken together, these poems reveal that both unpredictability and familiarity played as significant a role as Augustan reason played in the world of eighteenth-century poetry. The anthology also includes a helpful introduction, notes, and a glossary.

Contenido

JOHN POMFRET 16671702
1
THOMAS DURFEY 16531723
5
JOHN PHILIPS 16761709
6
from Blenheim
8
JONATHAN SWIFT 16671745
9
Baucis and Philemon
11
A Description of the Morning xxxiii xlii
15
A Description of a City Shower
16
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
353
Tophet
354
The Progress of Poesy A Pindaric Ode
358
The Bard A Pindaric Ode
361
from Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude
365
The Death of Hoel
366
On Lord Hollands Seat near Margate Kent
367
ROBERT BLAIR 16991746
368

In Sickness
17
To Stella March 13 17234
18
Stellas Birthday 1725
19
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to
20
The Day of Judgement
22
Verses on the Death of Dr Swift
23
DANIEL DEFOE 16601731
33
LAWRENCE SPOONER A 1703
35
LADY MARY CHUDLEIGH 16561710
36
SARAH FYGE EGERTON 1669?1722
37
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729
38
Song 21 Song 22 Doris
39
JOSEPH ADDISON 16721719
41
MATTHEW PRIOR 16641721
47
ANONYMOUS
61
ISAAC WATTS 16741748
67
ANDREW MICHAEL RAMSAY 16861743
77
WILLIAM KING 16621712
79
ALEXANDER POPE 16881744
87
Coronation
99
ANNE FINCH COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA 16611720
106
WILLIAM HARRISON 16851713
113
An Elegy to an Old Beauty
115
A NightPiece on Death
116
JOHN GAY 16851732
119
or The Art of Walking the Streets of London
121
The Birth of the Squire An Eclogue
124
To a Young Lady With Some Lampreys
127
Sweet Williams Farewell to BlackEyed Susan
128
My Own Epitaph
129
from Fables
130
from Polly An Opera
131
from Acis and Galatea An English Pastoral Opera
132
Epigram on the First of April
134
To the Revd Mr on his Drinking SeaWater
136
MARY MONCK 1690?1715
137
HENRY CAREY 1687?1743
138
or A Panegyric on the New Versification
139
A Lilliputian Ode on their Majesties Accession
140
Roger and Dolly
141
CAPTAIN H A 1716
142
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU 16891762
143
A Receipt to Cure the Vapours
146
LEONARD WELSTED 16881747
147
ALEXANDER PENNECUIK d 1730
148
EDWARD LITTLETON 1698?1734
150
ALLAN RAMSAY 16861758
151
Up in the Air
152
An Ode to Mr Forbes
153
Lass with a Lump of Land
154
THOMAS TICKELL 16851740
155
SAMUEL CROXALL 1690?1752
158
DAVID MALLET 1705?1765
159
ELIZABETH TOLLET 16941754
161
Winter Song
162
HENRY BAKER 16981774
163
The Declaimer
164
HETTY WRIGHT 16971751
165
JOHN DYER 17001758
166
Grongar Hill
167
My Ox Duke
171
from The Fleece
172
GEORGE BERKELEY 16851753
175
15
176
16
177
SAMUEL WESLEY 16911739
178
Anacreontic On Parting with a little Child
179
from To the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton
188
Hymn on Solitude
191
Rule Britannia
192
from The Castle of Indolence
193
JOHN WRIGHT A 17081727
196
CHRISTOPHER PITT 16991748
198
FRANCIS HAWLING fl 1727
200
The Dream
201
WILLIAM SOMERVILE 16751742
202
Hudibras and Milton Reconciled
204
from The Chase
205
JOHN BYROM 16921763
207
Tom the Porter
209
Careless Content
211
On the Origin of Evil
213
RICHARD SAVAGE 1697?1743
214
EDWARD CHICKEN 16981746
216
from The Comparison
218
JAMES BRAMSTON 1694?1743
219
from The Man of Taste
220
ANDREW BRICE 16901773
222
STEPHEN DUCK 17051756
224
HILDEBRAND JACOB 16931739
226
To Geron
227
To Cloe
228
COLLEY CIBBER 16711757
229
MARY BARBER 1690?1757
231
On seeing an Officers Widow distracted
233
ALEXANDER POPE 16881744
234
from An Essay on Man
236
An Epistle from Mr Pope to Dr Arbuthnot
239
Of the Characters of Women
248
from One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight Dialogue II
254
Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog
256
ROBERT DODSLEY 17031764
261
An Adieu to my Landlady
263
Privylove for my Landlady
264
Molly Moor
268
Quaerè
269
SAMUEL BOWDEN fl 17261771
271
A Receipt to Cure a Love Fit
273
JOHN BANCKS 17091751
274
A Description of London
275
Advice to a Young Lady
276
On Mr Nashs Present of his own Picture
277
ROBERT TATERSAL fl 1734
278
JEAN ADAMS 17101765
280
On a Female RopeDancer
282
THOMAS GILBERT 1713?1747
283
MATTHEW GREEN 16961737
285
from The Spleen An Epistle to Mr CJ
287
MOSES BROWNE 17041787
290
from The Shrimp
292
JOHN ARMSTRONG 17091779
293
from The Art of Preserving Health
294
HENRY TAYLOR 17111785
297
from The Art of Wenching
299
from The Diseases of Bath A Satire
301
AARON HILL 16851750
302
MayDay
303
WILLIAM SHENSTONE 17141763
305
Elegy XI
308
A Solemn Meditation
309
Written at an Inn at Henley
310
JOHN WESLEY 17031791
311
E DOWER A 1738
312
SAMUEL JOHNSON 17091784
313
Prologue Spoken by Mr Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 1747
314
The Vanity of Human Wishes
315
A Short Song of Congratulation
323
On the Death of Dr Robert Levet
324
MARY COLLIER fl 17391762
325
JOHN GAMBOLD 17111771
327
SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS 17081759
328
RICHARD GLOVER 17121785
332
SARAH DIXON A 17161745
334
Epitaph on a Child Killed by Procured Abortion
335
In Temptation
336
Wrestling Jacob
337
Inextinguishable Blaze
339
A Poem on His Majestys Happy Escape from his German Dominions
340
WILLIAM DUNKIN 1709?1765
341
NICHOLAS JAMES fl 1742
342
EDWARD YOUNG 16831765
344
THOMAS GRAY 17161771
349
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
350
Sonnet on the Death of Mr Richard West
352
JOSIAH RELPH 17121743
370
THOMAS MATHISON d 1754
372
PAUL WHITEHEAD 17101774
373
JAMES DANCE later LOVE 17221774
374
On the Death of Mr Pope
376
Ode to Fear
377
Ode on the Poetical Character
379
Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746
381
Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr Thomson
383
An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland
384
JOSEPH WARTON 17221800
389
from Ode to Fancy
391
MARK AKENSIDE 17201771
392
Inscription for a Grotto
397
SNEYD DAVIES 17091769
398
A Scene after Hunting at Swallowfield in Berkshire
399
Delia Very Angry
402
ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE 17051760
403
JOHN DOBSON fl 1746
404
TOBIAS SMOLLETT 17211771
407
MARY LEAPOR 17221746
408
Miras Will
410
An Epistle to a Lady
411
JOHN ELLIS 16981791
412
The Poetesss BoutsRimés
414
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD 17151785
415
The Sweepers
416
THOMAS WARTON 17281790
419
Sonnet To the River Lodon
420
ROBERT NUGENT EARL NUGENT 17021788
423
Epigrams
425
THOMAS EDWARDS 16991757
426
CHRISTOPHER SMART 17221771
427
A NightPiece or Modern Philosophy
428
from Hymn to the Supreme Being on Recovery from a Dangerous Fit of Illness
429
from Jubilate Agno
431
from A Song to David
437
On a Bed of Guernsey Lilies
444
Hymn The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
447
ANONYMOUS C G H
451
PHILIP DODDRIDGE 17021751
457
A Description of the Spring in London
466
KENRICK PRESCOT 17021779
475
DAVID GARRICK 17171779
482
ANONYMOUS
488
JAMES CAWTHORN 17191761
494
EMANUEL COLLINS b 1712?
500
THOMAS MOZEEN d 1768
502
JOHN COLLIER 17081786
511
JAMES GRAINGER 17211766
519
LEONARD HOWARD 1699?1767
534
CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY 17241805
540
FREDERICK FORREST A 1766
542
MICHAEL BRUCE 17461767
548
JOHN GERRARD fl 1769
554
22
560
GILBERT WHITE 17201793
563
WILLIAM MASON 17241797
569
LADY ANNE LINDSAY later BARNARD 17501825
573
GEORGE KEATE 17291797
574
CHARLES JENNER 17361774
577
JAMES GRAEME 17491772
579
ROBERT FERGUSSON 17501774
582
Braid Claith
584
The Sow of Feeling
585
HORACE WALPOLE EARL OF ORFORD 17171797
587
Epitaph on Two PipingBullfinches
588
WILLIAM COWPER 17311800
589
Hatred and Vengeance my Eternal Portion
590
To Mr Newton on his Return from Ramsgate
591
Epitaph on a Hare
593
The PoplarField
594
from The Task
595
Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce
602
On the Death of Mrs Throckmortons Bullfinch
603
On the Receipt of My Mothers Picture out of Norfolk
605
Yardley Oak
608
To Mary
612
Lines Written upon a WindowShutter at Weston
614
PHILLIS WHEATLEY 1753?1784
616
Morning
617
JOHN LANGHORNE 17351779
620
THOMAS PENROSE 17421779
628
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN 17511816
637
SUSANNA BLAMIRE 17471794
643
JOHN NEWTON 17251807
649
J WILDE A 1779
651
ANONYMOUS
660
OBRIEN f 1782
666
ANONYMOUS w J
677
WILLIAM BLAKE 17571827
686
Song
687
To the Muses
688
The Little Black Boy
689
Holy Thursday
690
The ChimneySweeper
691
The Divine Image
692
Earths Answer
693
London
694
The Human Abstract
695
The Sick Rose
696
Ah Sunflower
697
SIR GEORGE DALLAS 17581833
698
ROBERT BURNS 17591796
701
A Poets Welcome to his lovebegotten Daughter
704
To a Mouse
706
Address to the Deil
707
To a Louse
711
from Love and Liberty A Cantata
712
Ay Waukin O
716
The Banks o Doon
717
A Red Red Rose
718
ROBERT MERRY 17551798
720
JOHN CARR 17321807
723
HENRY JAMES PYE 17451813
725
JOHN FREDERICK BRYANT 17531791
726
ANN YEARSLEY 17561806
727
KER A 1787
728
JOHN OKEEFFE 17471833
730
CHARLES MORRIS 17451838
734
Country and Town
736
JOHN WOLCOT 17381819
737
Ode
740
an Ode to the Journeymen Shoemakers
741
To a Fly Taken out of a Bowl of Punch
742
Ode to a Country Hoyden
744
from The Royal Tour and Weymouth Amusements
745
An Elegy
747
WILLIAM CROWE 17451829
749
THOMAS RUSSELL 17621788
750
The Soldier that has Seen Service
751
ANNA SEWARD 17421809
752
ANONYMOUS
759
WILLIAM SOTHEBY 17571833
768
SAMUEL BISHOP 17311795
776
LAURENCE HYNES HALLORAN 17661831
780
WILLIAM SHEPHERD 17681847
787
JOHN PARRISH fl 1793
794
JAMES KENNEDY fl 1795
802
HANNAH MORE 17451833
808
WILLIAM TAYLOR 17651836
811
GEORGE CANNING 17701827
824
JAMES BISSET 1762?1832
836
23
839
333
849
35
856
36
857
Index of First Lines
858
37
861
38
863
39
864
Index of Authors
868
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Roger Lonsdale is Fellow and Tutor in English at Balliol College, Oxford University. He is also the author of Dr. Charles Burney and The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith.

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