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The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair and Falconer

The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair and Falconer

by James Beattie

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Author
Falconer, William, 1732-1769
Title
The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
Credits
Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Clytie Siddall, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry
Category
Text
eBook-No.
8695
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8695
Release Date
August 1, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Poetical Works — of Beattie, Blair and Falconer
  2. 2.Beattie's Poetical Works — The Life and Poetry of James Beattie — The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius — Book I — Book II
  3. 3.Miscellaneous Poems — Ode to Hope — Ode to Peace — Ode on Lord Hay's Birthday — The Judgment of Paris — The Triumph of Melancholy — Elegy — Elegy, written in the year 1758 — Retirement — The Hermit — On the Report of a Monument to be erected in Westminster Abbey, to the Memory of a late Author (Churchill) — The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes — The Hares ­ a Fable — The Wolf and Shepherds. A Fable — Song, in imitation of Shakspeare's "Blow, blow, thou winter wind" — To Lady Charlotte Gordon, dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet, with Plumes, &c . — Epitaph: being part of an Inscription designed for a Monument erected by a Gentleman to the Memory of his Lady — Epitaph on Two Young Men of the name of Leitch, who were drowned in crossing the River Southesk — Epitaph, intended for Himself
  4. 4.Poetical Works of Robert Blair — The Life of Robert Blair — The Grave — A Poem, dedicated to the Memory of the late learned and eminent Mr William Law, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh
  5. 5.Poetical Works of William Falconer — The Life and Poetry of William Falconer — The Shipwreck — The Shipwreck: Introduction — The Shipwreck: Canto I — The Shipwreck: Canto II — The Shipwreck: Canto III — Occasional Elegy, in which the preceding narrative is concluded — Miscellaneous Poems — The Demagogue 1 — A Poem, sacred to the Memory of His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales — Ode on the Duke of York's second departure from England as Rear-Admiral — The Fond Lover ­ a Ballad — On the Uncommon Scarcity of Poetry in the Gentleman's Magazine for December last, 1755, by I. W., a sailor — Description of a Ninety-Gun Ship

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