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Selected Contents by Theme | |
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Alphabetical List of Authors | |
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Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks | |
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Introduction | |
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Preface to Second Edition | |
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Editorial Procedures | |
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Text | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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The Choice | |
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The Splendid Shilling | |
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The Liberty | |
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On my leaving London | |
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To One who said I must not Love | |
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The Emulation | |
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The Adventurous Muse | |
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A Winter-Piece | |
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The Spleen | |
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Upon the Hurricane | |
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A Nocturnal Reverie | |
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To the Nightingale | |
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A Sigh | |
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The Agreeable | |
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Friday; or, The Dirge | |
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Trivia, Book II | |
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An Elegy, To an Old Beauty | |
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A Night-Piece on Death | |
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Oft have I read | |
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For His own Epitaph | |
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An Epitaph | |
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The Lady's Looking-Glass | |
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Non Pareil | |
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On a Pretty Madwoman | |
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True Statesmen | |
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A Description of the Morning | |
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A Description of a City Shower | |
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Stella's Birthday, 1721 | |
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Stella's Birthday, 1727 | |
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A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General | |
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The Lady's Dressing Room | |
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A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed | |
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Verses on the Death of Dr Swift | |
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Windsor-Forest | |
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The Rape of the Lock | |
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Eloisa to Abelard | |
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Epistle to Burlington | |
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An Epistle to a Lady | |
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An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | |
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The Dunciad, 1743, Book I | |
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Saturday. The Small-Pox | |
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Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman | |
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The Lover: A Ballad | |
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An Epistle to Lord Bathurst | |
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Verses Address'd to the Imitator of Horace | |
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Verses on Self-Murder | |
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A Hymn to the Moon | |
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Bellaria, at her Spinnet | |
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Whitehall Stairs | |
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The Singing-Bird | |
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Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton | |
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The Bastard | |
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Unconstant | |
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The Innocent Inconstant | |
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The Invitation from a Country Cottage | |
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On Lady Chudleigh | |
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Clio's Picture | |
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Spring | |
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Grongar Hill | |
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The Fleece, Book III | |
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The Thresher's Labour | |
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The Woman's Labour | |
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Strephon to the River | |
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The Return'd Heart | |
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To the Muse | |
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From a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe | |
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Lines occasion'd by the Burning of some Letters | |
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London | |
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The Vanity of Human Wishes | |
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On the Death of Dr Robert Levet | |
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An Epistle to Lady Bowyer | |
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Of Desire | |
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After the Small Pox | |
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Dorinda at her Glass | |
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An Epistle to a Lady | |
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The Enquiry | |
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Man the Monarch | |
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An Epistle to Artemisia | |
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Crumble-Hall | |
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Mira's Picture | |
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The Pleasures of Imagination, 1744, Book I | |
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Ode on the Spring | |
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Sonnet on the Death of Richard West | |
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Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College | |
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Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat | |
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Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard | |
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The Progress of Poesy | |
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The Bard | |
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Ode on the Poetical Character | |
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Ode to Evening | |
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Ode to Liberty | |
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The Passions. An Ode for Music | |
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The Enthusiast: Or the Lover of Nature | |
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Ode to Evening | |
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The Dying Indian | |
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The Pleasures of Melancholy | |
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Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire | |
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Sonnet: To the River Lodon | |
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Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds's Painted Window | |
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The Cit's Country Box | |
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Shakespeare: An Epistle to Mr Garrick | |
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Night | |
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'my Cat Jeoffry' | |
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A Song to David | |
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On a Bed of Guernsey Lilies | |
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Fragments of Ancient Poetry: 7 and 8 | |
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Mynstrelles Songe | |
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'Stay, curyous traveller' | |
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An Excelente Balade of Charitie | |
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The Deserted Village | |
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The Village, Book I | |
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To Stella; on a Visit to Mrs Montagu | |
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On Mrs Montagu | |
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Clifton Hill | |
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To Mr****, an Unlettered Poet | |
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The Vision | |
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To a Mouse | |
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To a Louse | |
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Holy Willie's Prayer | |
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Tam o'Shanter | |
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Corsica | |
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A Summer Evening's Meditation | |
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To Mr Barbauld | |
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The Rights of Woman | |
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To a little invisible Being | |
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To Mr Coleridge | |
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'Hatred and vengeance' | |
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The Task, Book I | |
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Yardley Oak | |
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On the Ice-islands | |
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The Cast-away | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index of Titles and First Lines | |