English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

About this eBook

Editor

Bernbaum, Ernest, 1879-1958

Credits

Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Keren Vergon, Jayam Subramanian and PG Distributed Proofreaders

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English poetry -- 18th century

Category

Text

eBook-No.

10161

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10161

Release Date

November 1, 2003

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.OF THE
2. 2.SELECTED AND EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION — BY — ERNEST BERNBAUM — PREFACE — CONTENTS
3. 3.INTRODUCTION — II. ORTHODOXY AND CLASSICISM ASSAILED (1726-1750) — III. THE PROGRESS OF SENTIMENTALISM — IV. THE TRIUMPH OF SENTIMENTALISM (1776-1800)
4. 4.JOHN POMFRET — THE CHOICE
5. 5.DANIEL DEFOE — FROM THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN — FROM A HYMN TO THE PILLORY
6. 6.JOSEPH ADDISON — FROM THE CAMPAIGN — [DIVINE ODE]
7. 7.MATTHEW PRIOR — TO A CHILD OF QUALITY FIVE YEARS OLD THE AUTHOR FORTY — TO A LADY — [THE DYING HADRIAN TO HIS SOUL] — A BETTER ANSWER
8. 8.BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE — FROM THE GRUMBLING HIVE; OR, KNAVES TURNED HONEST — THE MORAL:
9. 9.ISAAC WATTS — THE HAZARD OF LOVING THE CREATURES — THE DAY OF JUDGMENT — A CRADLE HYMN
10. 10.ALEXANDER POPE — FROM AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM — THE RAPE OF THE LOCK — FROM TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD — [MAN'S POWERS AND FRAILTIES] — [VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS] — FROM MORAL ESSAYS — FROM EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT — FROM THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED — FROM THE EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES — FROM THE DUNCIAD — [CIBBER AS DULNESS'S FAVOURITE SON] — [THE RESTORATION OF NIGHT AND CHAOS]
11. 11.LADY WINCHILSEA — TO THE NIGHTINGALE — A NOCTURNAL REVERIE
12. 12.JOHN GAY — FROM RURAL SPORTS — FROM THE SHEPHERD'S WEEK — FROM TRIVIA — SWEET WILLIAM'S FAREWELL TO BLACK-EYED SUSAN — MY OWN EPITAPH
13. 13.SAMUEL CROXALL — FROM THE VISION — FROM ON THE DEATH OF MR. ADDISON
14. 14.THOMAS PARNELL — FROM A NIGHT-PIECE ON DEATH — A HYMN OF CONTENTMENT
15. 15.ALLAN RAMSAY
16. 16.AMBROSE PHILIPS — TO MISS CHARLOTTE PULTENEY, IN HER MOTHER'S ARMS
17. 17.JOHN DYER — GRONGAR HILL
18. 18.GEORGE BERKELEY — VERSES ON THE PROSPECT OF PLANTING ARTS AND LEARNING IN AMERICA
19. 19.JAMES THOMSON — THE SEASONS — FROM SPRING — FROM AUTUMN — A HYMN — [RULE, BRITANNIA]
20. 20.EDWARD YOUNG
21. 21.NIGHT-THOUGHTS — [MAN'S MARVELLOUS NATURE] — [SATIETY IN THIS WORLD] — [GOD JUST AS WELL AS MERCIFUL]
22. 22.EDWARD YOUNG — (MAN'S NATURE PROVES HIS IMMORTALITY)
23. 23.ANONYMOUS — THE HAPPY SAVAGE
24. 24.SOAME JENYNS
25. 25.PHILIP DODDRIDGE — SURSUM
26. 26.WILLIAM SOMERVILLE — FROM THE CHASE
27. 27.HENRY BROOKE — [NATURE SUPERIOR TO CIVILIZATION] — [THE SPLENDOUR OF INSECTS] — [MORAL LESSONS FROM ANIMAL LIFE] — [PROMPTINGS OF DIVINE INSTINCT] — PROLOGUE TO 'GUSTAVUS VASA'
28. 28.MATTHEW GREEN — FROM THE SPLEEN
29. 29.WILLIAM SHENSTONE — FROM THE SCHOOLMISTRESS — WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY
30. 30.JONATHAN SWIFT — FROM THE BEASTS' CONFESSION — FROM VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT
31. 31.CHARLES WESLEY — FOR CHRISTMAS-DAY — FOR EASTER-DAY — IN TEMPTATION — WRESTLING JACOB
32. 32.ROBERT BLAIR — FROM THE GRAVE
33. 33.WILLIAM WHITEHEAD — FROM ON RIDICULE — THE ENTHUSIAST
34. 34.MARK AKENSIDE — FROM THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION
35. 35.JOSEPH WARTON — FROM THE ENTHUSIAST; OR, THE LOVER OF NATURE
36. 36.JOHN GILBERT COOPER — FROM THE POWER OF HARMONY
37. 37.WILLIAM COLLINS — ODE TO EVENING — ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER — THE PASSIONS — ODE ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND
38. 38.THOMAS WARTON — FROM THE PLEASURES OF MELANCHOLY — SONNET WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF DUGDALE'S 'MONASTICON' — SONNET WRITTEN AT STONEHENGE — SONNET TO THE RIVER LODON
39. 39.THOMAS GRAY — ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE — HYMN TO ADVERSITY — ELEGY — THE EPITAPH — THE PROGRESS OF POESY — THE BARD — THE FATAL SISTERS — ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE
40. 40.SAMUEL JOHNSON
41. 41.RICHARD JAGO — FROM THE GOLDFINCHES
42. 42.JOHN DALTON
43. 43.JANE ELLIOT — THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST
44. 44.CHARLES CHURCHILL — FROM THE ROSCIAD — FROM THE GHOST
45. 45.JAMES MACPHERSON — FROM THE SONGS OF SELMA — [THE LAST WORDS OF OSSIAN]
46. 46.CHRISTOPHER SMART — FROM A SONG TO DAVID
47. 47.OLIVER GOLDSMITH — FROM THE TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY — THE DESERTED VILLAGE — FROM RETALIATION
48. 48.JAMES BEATTIE — FROM THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS
49. 49.LADY ANNE LINDSAY — AULD ROBIN GRAY
50. 50.JEAN ADAMS — THERE'S NAE LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE
51. 51.ROBERT FERGUSSON — THE DAFT DAYS
52. 52.ANONYMOUS — ABSENCE
53. 53.JOHN LANGHORNE — FROM THE COUNTRY JUSTICE — APOLOGY FOR VAGRANTS
54. 54.AUGUSTUS MONTAGU TOPLADY — ROCK OF AGES
55. 55.JOHN SKINNER — TULLOCHGORUM — THOMAS CHATTERTON — [SONGS FROM "AELLA, A TRAGYCAL ENTERLUDE, WROTENN BIE THOMAS ROWLEIE"] — SECONDE MYNSTRELLE — THYRDE MYNSTRELLE — SECONDE MYNSTRELLE — [O, SYNGE UNTOE MIE ROUNDELAIE] — AN EXCELENTE BALADE OF CHARITIE
56. 56.THOMAS DAY — FROM THE DESOLATION OF AMERICA
57. 57.GEORGE CRABBE — FROM THE VILLAGE
58. 58.JOHN NEWTON — A VISION OF LIFE IN DEATH
59. 59.WILLIAM COWPER — TO A YOUNG LADY — THE SHRUBBERY — [MAN'S INHUMANITY] — [LOVE OF ENGLAND] — [COWPER, THE RELIGIOUS RECLUSE] — [THE ARRIVAL OF THE POST] — [THE BASTILE] — [MEDITATION IN WINTER] — [KINDNESS TO ANIMALS] — ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE — TO MARY — THE CASTAWAY
60. 60.WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES — EVENING — DOVER CLIFFS
61. 61.ROBERT BURNS — MARY MORISON — THE HOLY FAIR — TO A LOUSE — FROM EPISTLE TO J. LAPRAIK — THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT — TO A MOUSE — TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY — EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND — A BARD'S EPITAPH — ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS — JOHN ANDEKSON, MY JO — THE LOVELY LASS OF INVERNESS — A RED, RED ROSE — AULD LANG SYNE — SWEET AFTON — THE HAPPY TRIO — TO MARY IN HEAVEN — TAM O' SHANTER: A TALE — AE FOND KISS — DUNCAN GRAY — HIGHLAND MARY — SCOTS, WHA HAE — IS THERE FOR HONEST POVERTY — LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER — O, WERT THOU IN THE CAULD BLAST
62. 62.ERASMUS DARWIN — FROM THE BOTANIC GARDEN
63. 63.WILLIAM BLAKE — TO WINTER — SONG — TO THE MUSES — INTRODUCTION TO SONGS OF INNOCENCE — THE LAMB — THE LITTLE BLACK BOY — A CRADLE SONG — HOLY THURSDAY — THE DIVINE IMAGE — ON ANOTHER'S SORROW — THE BOOK OF THEL — THE FLY — THE TIGER — HOLY THURSDAY — THE GARDEN OF LOVE — A LITTLE BOY LOST — THE SCHOOLBOY — LONDON — FROM MILTON — FROM JERUSALEM
64. 64.GEORGE CANNING — FROM THE NEW MORALITY
65. 65.CAROLINA, LADY NAIRNE — THE LAND O' THE LEAL — GLOSSARY:

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