{"product_id":"eighteenth-century-poetry-an-annotated-anthology-paperback-softback-9781118824757","title":"Eighteenth-Century Poetry; An Annotated Anthology (Paperback \/ softback) 9781118824757","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEighteenth-Century Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Annotated Anthology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This anthology has already set the standard for presenting eighteenth-century poetry as accessible, historically embedded, and relevant to contemporary debates. Its new edition continues in this tradition, with Fairer and Gerrard responding to and anticipating the newest conversations around gender, material and popular culture. Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is staying on my desk.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eChristina Lupton, Warwick University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Fairer and Gerrard's third edition of \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e is simply the one and only anthology to use when teaching 18th-Century British Poetry. The selections are judicious but wide-ranging, offering readers the traditional canonical figures as well as newly-recuperated poets, both male and female. The annotations are superbly informative and authoritative. Bravissimo!\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJohn Richetti, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Fairer (Edited by), D Fairer (Author), Christine Gerrard (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118824757, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 November 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e688 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 4.1 cm, 1.066 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurrently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBalanced 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAccessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, full foot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and a visually appealing text design\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSelected Contents by Theme xi  \u003cp\u003eAlphabetical List of Authors xxi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks xxii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction xxv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to Third Edition xxvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to Second Edition xxix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditorial Procedures xxx\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eText xxxi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xxxii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Pomfret (1667–1702) 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Choice 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Philips (1676–1709) 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Splendid Shilling 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Fyge Egerton (1670–1723) 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Liberty 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn my leaving London 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo One who said I must not Love 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emulation 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsaac Watts (1674–1748) 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Adventurous Muse 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmbrose Philips (1674–1749) 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Winter-Piece 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch (1661–1720) 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Spleen 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpon the Hurricane 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Nocturnal Rêverie 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tree 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Nightingale 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Sigh 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlass 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Agreeable 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay (1685–1732) 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriday; or, The Dirge 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrivia, Book II 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Man and the Flea 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Parnell (1679–1718) 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Elegy, To an Old Beauty 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Night-Piece on Death 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOft have I read 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior (1664–1721) 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor His own Epitaph 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epitaph 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lady’s Looking-Glass 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNon Pareil 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a Pretty Madwoman 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrue Statesmen 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift (1667–1745) 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Description of the Morning 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Description of a City Shower 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStella’s Birthday, 1719 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStella’s Birthday, 1721 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStella’s Birthday, 1727 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lady’s Dressing Room 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrephon and Chloe 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on the Death of Dr Swift 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope (1688–1744) 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWindsor-Forest 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rape of the Lock 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEloisa to Abelard 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to a Lady 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Essay on Man. Epistle I 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dunciad, 1743, Book I 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSaturday. The Small-Pox 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpistle from Arthur Gray the Footman 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpistle from Mrs Y[onge] to her Husband 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lover: A Ballad 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Lord Bathurst 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses Address’d to the Imitator of Horace (with Lord Hervey) 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dean’s Provocation for Writing the Lady’s Dressing-Room 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on Self-Murder 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Hymn to the Moon 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill (1685–1750) 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBellaria, at her Spinnet 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhitehall Stairs 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Singing-Bird 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Savage (c.1697–1743) 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bastard 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnconstant 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke (1689–1736) 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Innocent Inconstant 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Invitation from a Country Cottage 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Lady Chudleigh 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClio’s Picture 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn being charged with Writing incorrectly 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Letter to my Love.—All alone, past 12, in the Dumps 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson (1700–1748) 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinter. A Poem (1726) 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpring 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dyer (1699–1757) 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrongar Hill 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fleece, Book III 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Duck (1705?–1756) 304\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Thresher’s Labour 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier (1688?–1762) 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Woman’s Labour 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Dixon (1671–1765) 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrephon to the River 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Return’d Heart 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Muse 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLines Occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber (c.1685–1755) 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a Lady, who commanded me to send her an Account in Verse, how I succeeded in my Subscription 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten for my Son, and Spoken by him at his first putting on Breeches 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMehetabel Wright (1697–1750) 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWedlock: A Satire 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddress to Her Husband 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Ingram (c.1696–1764) 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Mr Pope. By a Lady. Occasioned by his Characters of Women 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eviii Contents (Short Titles)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson (1709–1784) 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLondon 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vanity of Human Wishes 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Death of Dr Robert Levet 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones (1707–1778) 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle To Lady Bowyer 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf Desire. An Epistle to the Hon. Miss Lovelace 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElegy, On a favourite Dog, suppos’d to be poison’d 368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the Small Pox 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor (1722–1746) 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDorinda at Her Glass 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to a Lady 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Enquiry 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMan the Monarch 379\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Artemisia 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret 385\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrumble-Hall 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMira’s Picture 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoto. A Character 393\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Akenside (1721–1770) 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pleasures of Imagination, 1744, Book I 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray (1716–1771) 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Spring 413\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet on the Death of Richard West 414\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Death of a Favourite Cat 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Progress of Poesy 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bard 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins (1721–1759) 433\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Song from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline 433\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Poetical Character 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Fear 437\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Evening 440\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Liberty 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Passions. An Ode for Music 446\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Death of Mr Thomson 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton (1722–1800) 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Evening 459\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dying Indian 460\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton (1728–1790) 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pleasures of Melancholy 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet: To the River Lodon 472\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse, over the butcher’s shambles 473\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window 474\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd (1733–1764) 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cit’s Country Box 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShakespeare: An Epistle to Mr Garrick 482\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Churchill (1731–1764) 487\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNight 487\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Smart (1722–1771) 497\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘My Cat Jeoffry’ 498\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Song to David 500\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a Bed of Guernsey Lilies 517\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Macpherson (1736–1796) 519\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFragments of Ancient Poetry: 7 and 8 519\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton (1752–1770) 523\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMynstrelles Songe 523\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Stay, curyous traveller’ 525\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Excelente Balade of Charitie 526\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774) 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Deserted Village 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Crabbe (1754–1832) 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Village, Book I 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley (1753–1806) 550\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Stella; on a Visit to Mrs Montagu 551\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Mrs Montagu 552\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClifton Hill 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Indifference 561\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr ****, an Unlettered Poet 562\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns (1759–1796) 565\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rigs o’ Barley 566\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a Mouse 567\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a Louse 568\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoly Willie’s Prayer 570\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTam o’ Shanter 573\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Man’s a Man for a’ That 578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Seward (1742–1809) 581\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet. To Honora Sneyd 581\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet. To the Poppy 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColebrooke Dale 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCorsica 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mouse’s Petition 592\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Summer Evening’s Meditation 594\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr Barbauld 597\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rights of Woman 598\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a little invisible Being 599\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWashing-Day 600\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr Coleridge 603\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper (1731–1800) 605\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Hatred and Vengeance’ 606\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poplar-Field 606\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpitaph on a Hare 607\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Task, Book I 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Negro’s Complaint 627\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYardley Oak 629\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Ice-islands 634\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cast-away 635\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Robinson (1758–1800) 638\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLondon’s Summer Morning 638\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poet’s Garret 639\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Birth-day 641\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 644\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Titles and First Lines 650\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Contents by Theme\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 WOMEN’S ROLE IN SOCIETY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Fyge Egerton, The Liberty 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emulation 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, The Spleen 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to a Lady 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, On Lady Chudleigh 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Ingram, An Epistle to Mr Pope 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, Of Desire 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, Man the Monarch 379\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, The Rights of Woman 598\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWashing-Day 600\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 BEAUTY AND VANITY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, The Agreeable 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Parnell, An Elegy, To an Old Beauty 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, Stella’s Birthday, 1719 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStella’s Birthday, 1721 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lady’s Dressing Room 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrephon and Chloe, 1–38 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, 1:121–48, 2:1–28 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to a Lady 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Saturday. The Small-Pox 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, Clio’s Picture 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Ingram, An Epistle to Mr Pope 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, 319–44 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, After the Small Pox 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, Dorinda at Her Glass 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMira’s Picture 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, 1:271–387 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, To a Louse 568\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Seward, Sonnet. To the Poppy 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 LOVE AND COURTSHIP\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Fyge Egerton, To One who said I must not Love 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, A Sigh 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, The Lady’s Looking-Glass 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lover: A Ballad 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Whitehall Stairs 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Savage, Unconstant 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, The Innocent Inconstant 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Letter to my Love 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Spring, 582–630, 983–1112 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Dixon, Strephon to the River 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Return’d Heart 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLines occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, The Rigs o’ Barley 566\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, To Mr Barbauld 597\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 MARRIAGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, An Epitaph 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle from Mrs Y[onge] to her Husband 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Spring, 1113–76. 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMehetabel Wright, Wedlock: A Satire 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddress to Her Husband 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, To Mr Barbauld 597\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier, The Woman’s Labour, 105–20 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, Written for my Son, and Spoken by him at his first putting on Breeches 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMehetabel Wright, To an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, Clifton Hill, 67–92 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, To a little invisible Being 599\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWashing-Day 600\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 HUMANS AND ANIMALS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, To the Nightingale 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay, The Man and the Flea 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Windsor-Forest, 43–164 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Essay on Man, 1:77–90, 173–246 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, The Singing-Bird 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Winter. A Poem, 216–52 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpring, 336–442 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, Elegy, On a Favourite Dog, suppos’d to be poison’d 368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Prologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse 473\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Smart, ‘my Cat Jeoffry’ 498\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, To a Mouse 567\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo a Louse 568\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, The Mouse’s Petition 592\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, Epitaph on a Hare 607\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Contents by Theme xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 THE NATURAL WORLD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmbrose Philips, A Winter-Piece 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, Upon the Hurricane 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Nocturnal Rêverie 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tree 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Windsor-Forest 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Winter. A Poem 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpring 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dyer, Grongar Hill 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, The Enquiry 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Ode on the Spring 413\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode to Evening 440\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Evening 459\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton, An Excelente Balade of Charitie 526\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, Clifton Hill 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Seward, Colebrooke Dale 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Poplar-Field 606\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Task, 1:103–454 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYardley Oak 629\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Ice-islands 634\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 URBAN LIFE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Philips, The Splendid Shilling 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay, Trivia, Book II 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Description of a City Shower 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, The Dunciad, 1743, Book I 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Saturday. The Small-Pox 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Whitehall Stairs 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dyer, The Fleece, 3:224–348 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, London 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Prologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse 473\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Seward, Colebrooke Dale, 44–73 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Task, 1:678–774 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Robinson, London’s Summer Morning 638\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poet’s Garret 639\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Birth-day 641\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 HOUSES AND GARDENS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Pomfret, The Choice 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Epistle to Burlington 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, An Epistle to Lord Bathurst 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Spring, 904–62 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, London, 194–223 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, Crumble-Hall 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Task, 1:210–51 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 RURAL LIFE AND LABOUR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay, Friday; or, The Dirge 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Parnell, Oft have I read 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, The Invitation from a Country Cottage 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dyer, The Fleece, Book III 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, Crumble-Hall 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Crabbe, The Village, Book I 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, Clifton Hill 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, To a Mouse 567\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 SOCIAL CHANGE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, Upon the Hurricane 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, Crumble-Hall 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Crabbe, The Village, Book I 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton, An Excelente Balade of Charitie 526\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, A Man’s a Man for a’ That 578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Seward, Colebrooke Dale 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Negro’s Complaint 627\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Robinson, The Birth-day 641\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 NOCTURNAL MEDITATION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, A Nocturnal Rêverie 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Parnell, A Night-Piece on Death 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, A Hymn to the Moon 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, A Letter to my Love 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode to Evening 440\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature, 200–32 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Evening 459\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, The Pleasures of Melancholy 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Churchill, Night 487\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, A Summer Evening’s Meditation 594\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 THE ROLE OF THE POET\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsaac Watts, The Adventurous Muse 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, To the Nightingale 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Contents by Theme xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dunciad, 1743, Book I 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Verses Address’d to the Imitator of Horace 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, The Singing-Bird 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, On Lady Chudleigh 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn being charged with Writing incorrectly 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Dixon, To the Muse 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, To a Lady 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, An Epistle to Artemisia 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bard 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Death of Mr Thomson 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, Shakespeare: An Epistle to Mr Garrick 482\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, To Mr ****, an Unlettered Poet 562\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, To Mr Coleridge 603\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Robinson, The Poet’s Garret 639\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 LITERARY PATRONAGE AND THE ECONOMICS OF AUTHORSHIP\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Philips, The Splendid Shilling 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dunciad, 1743, Book I 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, To a Lady 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, London 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vanity of Human Wishes, 73–90 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, An Epistle to Lady Bowyer 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, An Epistle to Artemisia 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret 385\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Robinson, The Poet’s Garret 639\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 AUTOBIOGRAPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Fyge Egerton, The Liberty 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn my leaving London 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo One who said I must not Love 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, The Spleen 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, For His own Epitaph 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Verses on Self-Murder 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Savage, The Bastard 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, A Letter to my Love 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Dixon, To the Muse 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMehetabel Wright, Address to Her Husband 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, An Epistle to Lady Bowyer 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, An Epistle to a Lady 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Artemisia 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMira’s Picture 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Sonnet on the Death of Richard West 414\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Sonnet: To the River Lodon 472\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, To Stella; on a Visit to Mrs Montagu 551\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Mrs Montagu 552\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Indifference 561\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, Washing-Day 600\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Task, 1:103–80 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 RECOVERING THE PAST\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Windsor-Forest 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dyer, Grongar Hill 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, Crumble-Hall 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Progress of Poesy 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bard 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode to Liberty 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window 474\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry: 7 and 8 519\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton, Mynstrelles Songe 523\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Stay, curyous traveller’ 525\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Excelente Balade of Charitie 526\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Seward, Colebrooke Dale 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 CONTEMPLATING DEATH\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay, Friday; or, The Dirge 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Parnell, A Night-Piece on Death 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, For His own Epitaph 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epitaph 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on the Death of Dr Swift 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Verses on Self-Murder 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, On Lady Chudleigh 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMehetabel Wright, To an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Death of Dr Robert Levet 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, Elegy, On a Favourite Dog, suppos’d to be poison’d 368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Sonnet on the Death of Richard West 414\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Death of a Favourite Cat 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, A Song from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline 433\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Death of Mr Thomson 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton, The Dying Indian 460\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton, Mynstrelles Songe 523\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, Clifton Hill, 73–92 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, The Mouse’s Petition 592\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, ‘Hatred and vengeance’ 606\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpitaph on a Hare 607\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cast-away 635\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 MADNESS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, The Spleen 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, On a Pretty Madwoman 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Spring, 1004–1112 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode to Fear 437\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, Clifton Hill, 206–96 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Indifference 561\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Task, 1:534–56 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 VISIONS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsaac Watts, The Adventurous Muse 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Parnell, A Night-Piece on Death 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto IV 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEloisa to Abelard 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Bellaria, at her Spinnet 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, A Letter to my Love 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Winter. A Poem, 253–300 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, The Enquiry 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, 1:151–221 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bard 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde to Fear 437\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Passions. An Ode for Music 446\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature, 180–252 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, The Pleasures of Melancholy 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Smart, A Song to David 500\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, A Summer Evening’s Meditation 594\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Mr Coleridge 603\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 THE IMAGINATION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, The Spleen 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, The Lady’s Dressing Room 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Spring, 443–79 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, Book I 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003exviii Selected Contents by Theme\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window 474\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 LIBERTY\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Fyge Egerton, The Liberty 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, A Nocturnal Rêverie 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, The Singing-Bird 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Savage, The Bastard 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Dixon, Lines occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, Ode to Liberty 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Churchill, Night 487\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, A Man’s a Man for a’ That 578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, Corsica 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Negro’s Complaint 627\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 GOD IN NATURE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, Upon the Hurricane 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Gay, The Man and the Flea 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistle I 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson, Winter. A Poem 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpring, 556–71, 849–903 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, The Enquiry 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, 1:56–78 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Smart, A Song to David 500\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a Bed of Guernsey Lilies 517\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, A Summer Evening’s Meditation 594\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 WEALTH AND POVERTY\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Philips, The Splendid Shilling 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Epistle to Burlington 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, The Invitation from a Country Cottage 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, London 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vanity of Human Wishes, 21–8 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Chatterton, An Excelente Balade of Charitie 526\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Crabbe, The Village, Book I 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, A Man’s a Man for a’ That 578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Robinson, The Poet’s Garret 639\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Birth-day 641\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 ART AND NATURE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, Glass 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Epistle to Burlington 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Contents by Theme xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, An Epistle to Lord Bathurst 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, The Invitation from a Country Cottage 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClio’s Picture 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, Written for my Son, and Spoken by him at his first putting on Breeches 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Warton, Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window 474\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Task, 1:409–35 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 PORTRAITS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, The Agreeable 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Prior, An Epitaph 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNon Pareil 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift, A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerses on the Death of Dr Swift, 307–484 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, An Epistle to a Lady 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 193–214, 305–33 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dunciad, 1743, 1:107–46 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Bellaria, at her Spinnet 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Savage, Unconstant 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, The Innocent Inconstant 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Lady Chudleigh 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClio’s Picture 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, 99–120, 191–222 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Death of Dr Robert Levet 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Jones, Of Desire, 35–118 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor, An Epistle to Artemisia 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMira’s Picture 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoto. A Character 393\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Smart, ‘My Cat Jeoffry’ 498\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 189–218 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Crabbe, The Village, 1:184–227, 276–319 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnn Yearsley, Clifton Hill, 206–96 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Laetitia Barbauld, Corsica, 107–32 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Task, 1:534–56, 633–77 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 MUSIC\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, To the Nightingale 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAaron Hill, Bellaria, at her Spinnet 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, 1:109–38 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Collins, The Passions. An Ode for Music 446\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 LETTERS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Finch, To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpistle to Burlington 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to a Lady 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003exx Selected Contents by Theme\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpistle from Mrs Y[onge] to her Husband 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Epistle to Lord Bathurst 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Fowke, A Letter to my Love 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Dixon, From a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLines occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Barber, The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. 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