The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer / With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes

by James Beattie; Robert Blair; William Falconer

The Poetical Works

of Beattie, Blair and Falconer

With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes,
by the Rev. George Gilfillan

[Table of Contents]

• [Beattie's Poetical Works]
• [The Life and Poetry of James Beattie]
• [The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius]
• • [Book I]
  • [Book II]
• [Miscellaneous Poems]
• • [Ode to Hope]
  • [Ode to Peace]
  • [Ode on Lord Hay's Birthday]
  • [The Judgment of Paris]
  • [The Triumph of Melancholy]
  • [Elegy]
  • [Elegy, written in the year 1758]
  • [Retirement]
  • [The Hermit]
  • [On the Report of a Monument to be erected in Westminster Abbey, to the Memory of a late Author (Churchill)]
  • [The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes]
  • [The Hares. A Fable]
  • [The Wolf and Shepherds. A Fable]
  • [Song, in imitation of Shakspeare's "Blow, blow, thou winter wind" .]
  • [To Lady Charlotte Gordon, dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet, with Plumes, &c]
  • [Epitaph: being part of an Inscription designed for a Monument erected by a Gentleman to the Memory of his Lady]
  • [Epitaph on Two Young Men of the name of Leitch, who were drowned in crossing the River Southesk]
  • [Epitaph, intended for Himself]
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• [Blair's Poetical Works]
• [The Life of Robert Blair]
  • [The Grave]
  • [A Poem, dedicated to the Memory of the late learned and eminent Mr William Law, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh]
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• [Falconer's Poetical Works]
• [The Life of William Falconer]
  • [The Shipwreck]
  • • [The Shipwreck: Introduction]
    • [The Shipwreck: Canto I]
    • [The Shipwreck: Canto II]
    • [The Shipwreck: Canto III]
    • [Occasional Elegy, in which the preceding narrative is concluded]
  • [Miscellaneous Poems]
  • • [The Demagogue]
    • [A Poem, sacred to the Memory of His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales]
    • [Ode on the Duke of York's second departure from England as Rear-Admiral]
    • [The Fond Lover. A Ballad]
    • [On the Uncommon Scarcity of Poetry in the Gentleman's Magazine for December last, 1755, by I. W., a sailor]
    • [Description of a Ninety-Gun Ship]

[Beattie's Poetical Works]

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[The Life and Poetry of James Beattie]

James Beattie, the author of the

Minstrel