Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology

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Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation. Balanced 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 Includes 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 Accessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, full foot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and a visually appealing text design Cover Blackwell Annotated Anthologies Title page Copyright page Contents Selected Contents by Theme Alphabetical List of Authors Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks Introduction Preface to Third Edition Preface to Second Edition Editorial Procedures The Text Acknowledgements John Pomfret (1667–1702) The Choice John Philips (1676–1709) The Splendid Shilling Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670–1723) The Liberty On my leaving London, June the 29 To One who said I must not Love The Emulation Isaac Watts (1674–1748) The Adventurous Muse Ambrose Philips (1674–1749) A Winter-Piece Anne Finch (1661–1720) The Spleen Upon the Hurricane A Nocturnal Rêverie The Tree To the Nightingale A Sigh To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters Glass The Agreeable To Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses John Gay (1685–1732) The Shepherd’s Week Friday; or, The Dirge Bumkinet. Grubbinol. Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London Book II The Man and the Flea 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 True Statesmen Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) A Description of the Morning A Description of a City Shower Stella’s Birthday, 1719 Stella’s Birthday, 1721 Stella’s Birthday, 1727 A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General The Lady’s Dressing Room A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed Strephon and Chloe Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D. Occasioned by Reading a Maxim in Rochefoucault Alexander Pope (1688–1744) Windsor-Forest The Rape of the Lock Canto I Canto II Canto III Canto IV Canto V Eloisa to Abelard To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington. Of the Use of Riches An Epistle to a Lady Of the Characters of Women The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot An Essay on Man Epistle I The Dunciad, 1743 Book I Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) Saturday. The Small-Pox. Flavia. Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman, after his Condemnation for attempting a Rape Epistle from Mrs Y[onge] to her Husband The Lover: A Ballad An Epistle to Lord Bathurst Verses Address’d to the Imitator of Horace The Dean’s Provocation for Writing the Lady’s Dressing-Room Verses on Self-Murder, address’d to — A Hymn to the Moon Aaron Hill (1685–1750) Bellaria, at her spinnet Whitehall Stairs The Singing-Bird Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton. April the 25th, 1737 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 On being charged with Writing incorrectly A Letter to my Love.—All alone, past 12, in the Dumps James Thomson (1700–1748) The Seasons Winter. A Poem (1726) Spring John Dyer (1699–1757) Grongar Hill The Fleece Book III Stephen Duck (1705?–1756) The Thresher’s Labour Mary Collier (1688?–1762) The Woman’s Labour Sarah Dixon (1671–1765) 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 Mary Barber (c.1685–1755) To a Lady, who commanded me to send her an Account in Verse, how I succeeded in my Subscription Written for my Son, and Spoken by him at his first putting on Breeches The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– Mehetabel Wright (1697–1750) To an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth Wedlock: A Satire Address to Her Husband Anne Ingram (c.1696–1764) An Epistle to Mr Pope. By a Lady. Occasioned by his Characters of Women Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) London The Vanity of Human Wishes On the Death of Dr Robert Levet Mary Jones (1707–1778) An Epistle to Lady Bowyer Of Desire. An Epistle to the Hon. Miss Lovelace Elegy, On a favourite Dog, suppos’d to be poison’d After the Small Pox Mary Leapor (1722–1746) Dorinda at Her Glass An Epistle to a Lady The Enquiry Man the Monarch An Epistle to Artemisia. On Fame Upon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret Crumble-Hall Mira’s Picture Soto. A Character Mark Akenside (1721–1770) The Pleasures of Imagination Book One 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, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode The Bard. A Pindaric Ode William Collins (1721–1759) A Song from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline Ode on the Poetical Character Ode to Fear Ode to Evening Ode to Liberty The Passions. An Ode for Music Ode on the Death of Mr Thomson Joseph Warton (1722–1800) The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature Ode to Evening The Dying Indian Thomas Warton (1728–1790) The Pleasures of Melancholy Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire Sonnet: To the River Lodon Prologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse, over the butcher’s shambles Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window at New-College Oxford Robert Lloyd (1733–1764) The Cit’s Country Box Shakespeare: An Epistle to Mr Garrick Charles Churchill (1731–1764) Night. An Epistle to Robert Lloyd Christopher Smart (1722–1771) ‘My Cat Jeoffry’ A Song to David On a Bed of Guernsey Lilies James Macpherson (1736–1796) Fragment 7 Fragment 8 Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) Mynstrelles Songe ‘Stay, curyous traveller’ An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As wroten bie the gode Prieste Thomas Rowley, 1464 Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774) The Deserted Village George Crabbe (1754–1832) The Village Book I Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) To Stella; on a Visit to Mrs Montagu On Mrs Montagu Clifton Hill To Indifference To Mr * * * *, an Unlettered Poet, on Genius Unimproved Robert Burns (1759–1796) The Rigs o’ Barley To a Mouse To a Louse Holy Willie’s Prayer Tam o’ Shanter. A Tale A Man’s a Man for a’ That Anna Seward (1742–1809) Sonnet. To Honora Sneyd Sonnet. To the Poppy Colebrooke Dale Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) Corsica The Mouse’s Petition A Summer Evening’s Meditation To Mr Barbauld The Rights of Woman To a little invisible Being who is expected soon to become visible Washing-Day To Mr Coleridge William Cowper (1731–1800) ‘Hatred and Vengeance’ The Poplar-Field Epitaph on a Hare The Task Book I: The Sofa The Negro’s Complaint Yardley Oak On the Ice-islands seen floating in the Germanic Ocean The Cast-away Mary Robinson (1758–1800) London’s Summer Morning The Poet’s Garret The Birth-day Bibliography Index of Titles and First Lines EULA