Eighteenth-century poetry : an annotated anthology

Selected Contents By Theme.Alphabetical List Of Authors.Chronology Of Events And Poetic Landmarks.Introduction.Preface To The Second Edition.Editorial Procedures.Text.Acknowledgements.John Pomfret (1667-1702).The Choice.John Philips (1676-1709).The Splendid Shilling.Sarah Egerton (1670-1723).The Liberty.On My Leaving London.To One Who Said I Must Not Love.The Emulation.Isaac Watts (1674-1748).The Adventurous Muse.Ambrose Philips (1674-1748).A Winter-Piece.Anne Finch (1661-1720).The Spleen.Upon The Hurricane.A Nocturnal Reverie.To The Nightingale.A Sigh.The Agreeable.John Gay (1685-1732).Friday; Or, The Dirge.Trivia, Book II.Thomas Parnell (1679-1718).An Elegy, To An Old Beauty.A Night-Piece On Death.Oft Have I Read.Matthew Prior (1664-1721).For His Own Epitaph.An Epitaph.The Lady's Looking-Glass.Non Pareil.On A Pretty Madwoman.Jonathan Swift (1667-1745).A Description Of The Morning .A Description Of A City Shower .Stella's Birthday, 1721 .Stella's Birthday, 1727 .A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed .The Lady's Dressing-Room.A Satirical Elegy On A Late Famous General.Verses On The Death Of Dr Swift.Alexander Pope (1688-1744).Windsor-Forest The Rape Of The Lock.Eloisa To Abelard.Epistle To Burlington.Epistle To A Lady.Epistle To Dr Arbuthnot.The Dunciad. 1743, Book 1.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762).Saturday. The Small-Pox .Epistle From Arthur Gray The Footman .The Lover: A Ballad .An Epistle To Lord Bathurst .Verses Address'd To The Imitator Of Horace (With Lord Hervey) .Verses On Self-Murder.A Hymn To The Mood.Aaron Hill (1685-1750).Bellaria, At Her Spinnet.Whitehall Stairs.The Singing-Bird.Alone, In An Inn, At Southampton.Richard Savage (C.1697-1743).The Bastard.Unconstant.Martha Fowke (1689-1736).The Innocent Inconstant.The Invitation From A Country Cottage.On Lady Chudleigh.Clio's Picture.James Thomson (1700-1748).Spring.John Dyer (1699-1757).Grongar Hill.The Fleece, Book 3.Stephen Duck (1705?-1756).The Thresher's Labour.Mary Collier (1690?-C.1762).The Woman's Labour.Sarah Dixon (171-1765).Strephon To The River.The Return'd Heart.To The Muse.From A Sheet Of Gilt Paper. To Cloe.Lines Occasion'd By The Burning Of Some Letters.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784).London.On The Death Of Dr Robert Levet.Mary Jones (1707-1778).An Epistle To Lady Bowyer.Of Desire.After The Small Pox.Mary Leapor Dorinda At Her Glass .An Epistle To A Lady .The Enquiry .Man The Monarch .An Epistle To Artemisia .Crumble-Hall.Mary Leapor (1722-1746).Dorinda At Her Glass.An Epistle To A Lady.The Enquiry.Man The Monarch.An Epistle To Artemisia.Crumble-Hall.Mira's Picture.Mark Akenside (1721-1770).The Pleasures Of Imagination. 1744, Book 1.Thomas Gray (1716-1771).Ode On The Spring.Sonnet On The Death Of Richard West.Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College.Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat.Elegy Written In A Country Church Yard.The Progress Of Poesy.The Bard.William Collins (1721-1759).Ode On The Poetical Character.Ode To Evening.The Passions.An Ode For Music.Joseph Warton (1722-1800).The Enthusiast: Or The Lover Of Nature.Ode To Evening.The Dying India.Thomas Warton (1728-1790).The Pleasures Of Melancholy.Ode Written At Vale-Royal Abbey.Sonnet: To The River Lodon.Verses On Sir Joshua Reynold's Painted Window.Robert Lloyd (1733-1764).The Cit's Country Box.Charles Churchill (1731-1764).Night.Christopher Smart (1722-1771).'My Cat Jeoffry'.A Song To David.On A Bed Of Guernsey Lilies.James Macpherson (1736-1796).Fragments Of Ancient Poetry: 7 & 8.Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770).Mynstrelles Songe, From Alla.'Stay, Curyous Traveller'.An Excelente Balade Of Charitie.Oliver Goldsmith (?1730-1774).The Deserted Village.George Crabbe (1754-1832).The Village, Book 1.Ann Yearsley (1753-1806).To Stella; On A Visit To Mrs Montagu.On Mrs Montagu.Clifton Hill.To Mr , An Unlettered Poet.Robert Burns (1759-1796).The Vision.To A Mouse.To A Louse.Holy Willie's Prayer.Tam o'Shanter.Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825).Corsica.A Summer Evening's Meditation.To Mr Barbauld.The Rights Of Woman.To A Little Invisible Being.To Mr Coleridge.William Cowper (1731-1800).'Hatred And Vengeance'.The Task, Book 1.Yardley Oak.On The Ice-Islands.The Cast-Away.Bibliography.Index of Titles and First Lines