The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair and Falconer
by James Beattie
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About this eBook
- 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.The Poetical Works — of Beattie, Blair and Falconer
- 2.Beattie's Poetical Works — The Life and Poetry of James Beattie — The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius — Book I — Book II
- 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.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.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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