The Poetical Works of William Collins

About this eBook

Author

Collins, William, 1721-1759

Title

The Poetical Works of William Collins; With a Memoir

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Katherine Ward, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

29879

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29879

Release Date

August 31, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE Poetical Works OF WILLIAM COLLINS.
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.MEMOIR OF COLLINS.
4. 4.AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS AND POEMS OF COLLINS. — BY SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, BART.
5. 5.ORIENTAL ECLOGUES. — WRITTEN ORIGINALLY FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE LADIES OF TAURIS. — PREFACE.
6. 6.ORIENTAL ECLOGUES. — ECLOGUE I. — SELIM; OR, THE SHEPHERD’S MORAL. — ECLOGUE II. — HASSAN; OR, THE CAMEL DRIVER. — ECLOGUE III. — ABRA; OR, THE GEORGIAN SULTANA. — ECLOGUE IV. — AGIB AND SECANDER; OR, THE FUGITIVES.
7. 7.ODES — ON SEVERAL DESCRIPTIVE AND ALLEGORICAL SUBJECTS.
8. 8.ODES. — ODE TO PITY. — ODE TO FEAR. — ODE TO SIMPLICITY. — ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER. — ODE, — WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1746. — ODE TO MERCY. — ODE TO LIBERTY. — ODE TO A LADY, — ON THE DEATH OF COLONEL ROSS, IN THE ACTION OF FONTENOY. Written in May, 1745. — ODE TO EVENING. — ODE TO PEACE. — THE MANNERS. — AN ODE. — THE PASSIONS. — AN ODE FOR MUSIC. — ODE ON THE DEATH OF THOMSON. — THE SCENE IS SUPPOSED TO LIE ON THE THAMES NEAR RICHMOND. — ODE ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND; — CONSIDERED AS THE SUBJECT OF POETRY; INSCRIBED TO MR. JOHN HOME. — AN EPISTLE, — ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HANMER, ON HIS EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS. — DIRGE IN CYMBELINE, — SUNG BY GUIDERUS AND ARVIRAGUS OVER FIDELE, SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD. — VERSES — WRITTEN ON A PAPER WHICH CONTAINED A PIECE OF BRIDE-CAKE, GIVEN TO THE AUTHOR BY A LADY. — TO MISS AURELIA C–––R, — ON HER WEEPING AT HER SISTER’S WEDDING. — SONNET. — SONG. — THE SENTIMENTS BORROWED FROM SHAKESPEARE. [62] — ON OUR LATE TASTE IN MUSIC. [63]
9. 9.OBSERVATIONS ON THE ORIENTAL ECLOGUES AND ODES. — BY DR. LANGHORNE.
10. 10.OBSERVATIONS ON THE ORIENTAL ECLOGUES. — ECLOGUE I. — ECLOGUE II. — ECLOGUE III. — ECLOGUE IV.
11. 11.OBSERVATIONS — ON THE ODES, DESCRIPTIVE AND ALLEGORICAL. — ODE TO PITY. — ODE TO FEAR. — ODE TO SIMPLICITY. — ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER. — ODE, — WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1746. — ODE TO MERCY. — ODE TO LIBERTY. — ODE TO A LADY, — ON THE DEATH OF COLONEL ROSS, IN THE ACTION OF FONTENOY. — ODE TO EVENING. — THE MANNERS. — AN ODE. — THE PASSIONS. — AN ODE FOR MUSIC. — AN EPISTLE — TO SIR THOMAS HANMER, ON HIS EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS. — DIRGE IN CYMBELINE. — ODE ON THE DEATH OF THOMSON.
12. 12.FOOTNOTES:

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