CONTENTS
JOHN POMFRET THE CHOICE (1700)
DANIEL DEFOE
THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN (1701),
ll. 119-132, 189-228, 312-321
A HYMN TO THE PILLORY (1703),
STANZAS 1, 3, 5-6, 28-30
JOSEPH ADDISON
THE CAMPAIGN (1704),
ll. 259-292
DIVINE ODE (1712)
MATTHEW PRIOR TO A CHILD OF QUALITY (1704) TO A LADY (1704) THE DYING HADRIAN TO HIS SOUL (1704) A BETTER ANSWER (1718)
BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE
THE GRUMBLING HIVE (1705, 1714),
ll. 1-6, 26-52, 149-156, 171-186,
198-239, 327-336, 377-408
ISAAC WATTS THE HAZARD OF LOVING THE CREATURES (1706) THE DAY OF JUDGMENT (1709) O GOD, OUR HELP IN AGES PAST (1719) A CRADLE HYMN (1719)
ALEXANDER POPE
AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM (1711),
ll. 1-18, 46-51, 68-91, 118-180,
215-423, 560-577, 612-642
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK (1714),
CANTOS II AND III
TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD, BOOK VI (1717),
ll. 562-637
AN ESSAY ON MAN (1733-34),
EPISTLE I; 11, 1-18; IV, 93-204, 361-398
MORAL ESSAYS, EPISTLE II (1735),
ll. 1-16, 87-180, 199-210, 231-280
EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT (1735),
ll. 1-68, 115-214, 261-304, 334-367, 389-419
FIRST EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED (1737),
ll. 23-138, 161-296, 338-347
EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES (1738), DIALOGUE II, ll. 208-223
THE DUNCIAD (1728-43), BOOK i, ll. 28-84, 107-134; iv. 627-656
LADY WINCHILSEA TO THE NIGHTINGALE (1713) A NOCTURNAL REVERIE (1713)
JOHN GAY
RURAL SPORTS (1713), ll. 91-106
THE SHEPHERD'S WEEK: THURSDAY; OR, THE SPELL (1714),
ll. 5-14, 49-60, 83-136
TRIVIA (1716), BOOK II, ll. 25-64
SWEET WILLIAM'S FAREWELL TO BLACK-EYED SUSAN (1720)
MY OWN EPITAPH (1720)
SAMUEL CROXALL
THE VISION (1715), ll. 41-56
THOMAS TICKELL
ON THE DEATH OF MR. ADDISON (1721), ll. 9-46, 67-82
THOMAS PARNELL
A NIGHT-PIECE ON DEATH (1721), ll. 1-70
A HYMN OF CONTENTMENT (1721)
ALLAN RAMSAY
THE GENTLE SHEPHERD: PATIE AND ROGER (1721),
ll. 1-52, 59-68, 135-202
AMBROSE PHILIPS TO MISS CHARLOTTE PULTENEY, IN HER MOTHER'S ARMS (1725)
JOHN DYER GRONGAR HILL (1726)
GEORGE BERKELEY
VERSES ON THE PROSPECT OF PLANTING ARTS AND
LEARNING IN AMERICA (WR. c. 1726; PUBL. 1752)
JAMES THOMSON
THE SEASONS (1726-30)
WINTER, ll. 223-358
SUMMER, ll. 1630-1645
SPRING, ll. 1-113, 846-876
AUTUMN, ll. 950-1003
A HYMN
RULE, BRITANNIA (1740)
THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE (1748), STANZAS 1-11, 20, 57-59
EDWARD YOUNG
LOVE OF FAME: SATIRES V-VI (1727-28),
SATIRE V, ll. 227-246, 469-484; VI, 393-462
NIGHT-THOUGHTS (1742-45), NIGHT I, ll. 68-90;
III, 325-342; IV, 201-233; VII, 253-323
ANONYMOUS THE HAPPY SAVAGE (1732)
SOAME JENYNS
AN ESSAY ON VIRTUE (1734), ll. 148-165, 170-183, 189-199
PHILIP DODDRIDGE SURSUM (1735?)
WILLIAM SOMERVILLE
THE CHASE (1735), BOOK II, ll. 119-171
HENRY BROOKE
UNIVERSAL BEAUTY (1735), BOOK III, ll. 1-8, 325-364;
V, 282-297, 330-339, 361-384
PROLOGUE TO GUSTAVUS VASA (1739)
CONRADE, A FRAGMENT (WR. 1743?, PUBL. 1778), ll. 1-26
MATTHEW GREEN
THE SPLEEN (1737), ll. 89-110, 624-642
WILLIAM SHENSTONE THE SCHOOLMISTRESS (1737), STANZAS 6, 8, 18-20, 23, 28 WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY (1764)
JONATHAN SWIFT
THE BEASTS' CONFESSION (1738), ll. 1-128, 197-220
VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT (1739),
ll. 39-66, 299-338, 455-482
CHARLES WESLEY FOR CHRISTMAS-DAY (1739) FOR EASTER-DAY (1739) IN TEMPTATION: JESU, LOVER OF MY SOUL (1740)
WRESTLING JACOB (1742)
ROBERT BLAIR
THE GRAVE (1743), ll. 28-44, 56-84, 750-767
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD
ON RIDICULE (1743), ll. 27-52, 153-171, 225-226, 233-236, 287-301
THE ENTHUSIAST (1754)
MARK AKENSIDE
THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION (1744), BOOK I, ll. 34-43, 113-124;
III, 515-535, 568-633
JOSEPH WARTON
THE ENTHUSIAST; OR, THE LOVER OF NATURE (1744),
ll. 1-20, 26-38, 87-103, 167-244
JOHN GILBERT COOPER
THE POWER OF HARMONY (1745), BOOK II, ll. 35-51, 125-140, 330-343
WILLIAM COLLINS ODE WRITTEN IN 1746 (1746) ODE TO EVENING (1746) ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER (1746) THE PASSIONS (1746) ODE ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS (WR. 1749, PUBL. 1788)
THOMAS WARTON
THE PLEASURES OF MELANCHOLY (1747), ll. 28-69, 153-165, 196-210
THE GRAVE OF KING ARTHUR (1777), ll. 31-74
SONNET WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF DUGDALE'S MONASTICON (1777)
SONNET WRITTEN AT STONEHENGE (1777)
SONNET TO THE RIVER LODON (1777)
THOMAS GRAY AN ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE (1747) HYMN TO ADVERSITY (1748) ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD (1751) THE PROGRESS OF POESY (1757) THE BARD (1757) THE FATAL SISTERS (1768) ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE (1775)
SAMUEL JOHNSON
THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES (1749), ll. 99-118,
133-160, 189-220, 289-308, 341-366
RICHARD JAGO THE GOLDFINCHES (1753), STANZAS 3-10
JOHN DALTON
A DESCRIPTIVE POEM (1755), ll. 222-227, 238-257, 265-272, 279-290
JANE ELLIOT THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST (WR. 1756)
CHARLES CHURCHILL
THE ROSCIAD (1761), ll. 963-986
THE GHOST (1762), BOOK II, ll. 653-676