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Eighteenth-Century Poetry An Annotated Anthology

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ISBN-10: 1405113197

ISBN-13: 9781405113199

Edition: 2nd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: David Fairer, Christine Gerrard

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This anthology reveals the rich variety of poetry produced in the period 1700-1800. The work of traditionally prominent authors, such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Robert Burns and William Cowper, is presented alongside pieces by lesser-known writers, particularly women.
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Book details

List price: $54.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

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