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ENGLISH POETS
SELECTED AND EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
ERNEST BERNBAUM
PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
II. ORTHODOXY AND CLASSICISM ASSAILED (1726-1750)
III. THE PROGRESS OF SENTIMENTALISM
IV. THE TRIUMPH OF SENTIMENTALISM (1776-1800)
ENGLISH POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
JOHN POMFRET
THE CHOICE
DANIEL DEFOE
FROM THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN
FROM A HYMN TO THE PILLORY
JOSEPH ADDISON
FROM THE CAMPAIGN
[DIVINE ODE]
MATTHEW PRIOR
TO A CHILD OF QUALITY FIVE YEARS OLD THE AUTHOR FORTY
TO A LADY
[THE DYING HADRIAN TO HIS SOUL]
A BETTER ANSWER
BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE
FROM THE GRUMBLING HIVE; OR, KNAVES TURNED HONEST
THE MORAL:
ISAAC WATTS
THE HAZARD OF LOVING THE CREATURES
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
A CRADLE HYMN
ALEXANDER POPE
FROM AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK
FROM TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD
[MAN'S POWERS AND FRAILTIES]
[VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS]
FROM MORAL ESSAYS
FROM EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT
FROM THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED
FROM THE EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES
FROM THE DUNCIAD
[CIBBER AS DULNESS'S FAVOURITE SON]
[THE RESTORATION OF NIGHT AND CHAOS]
LADY WINCHILSEA
TO THE NIGHTINGALE
A NOCTURNAL REVERIE
JOHN GAY
FROM RURAL SPORTS
FROM THE SHEPHERD'S WEEK
FROM TRIVIA
SWEET WILLIAM'S FAREWELL TO BLACK-EYED SUSAN
MY OWN EPITAPH
SAMUEL CROXALL
FROM THE VISION
FROM ON THE DEATH OF MR. ADDISON
THOMAS PARNELL
FROM A NIGHT-PIECE ON DEATH
A HYMN OF CONTENTMENT
ALLAN RAMSAY
AMBROSE PHILIPS
TO MISS CHARLOTTE PULTENEY, IN HER MOTHER'S ARMS
JOHN DYER
GRONGAR HILL
GEORGE BERKELEY
VERSES ON THE PROSPECT OF PLANTING ARTS AND LEARNING IN AMERICA
JAMES THOMSON
THE SEASONS
FROM SPRING
FROM AUTUMN
A HYMN
[RULE, BRITANNIA]
EDWARD YOUNG
NIGHT-THOUGHTS
[MAN'S MARVELLOUS NATURE]
[SATIETY IN THIS WORLD]
[GOD JUST AS WELL AS MERCIFUL]
EDWARD YOUNG
(MAN'S NATURE PROVES HIS IMMORTALITY)
ANONYMOUS
THE HAPPY SAVAGE
SOAME JENYNS
PHILIP DODDRIDGE
SURSUM
WILLIAM SOMERVILLE
FROM THE CHASE
HENRY BROOKE
[NATURE SUPERIOR TO CIVILIZATION]
[THE SPLENDOUR OF INSECTS]
[MORAL LESSONS FROM ANIMAL LIFE]
[PROMPTINGS OF DIVINE INSTINCT]
PROLOGUE TO 'GUSTAVUS VASA'
MATTHEW GREEN
FROM THE SPLEEN
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
FROM THE SCHOOLMISTRESS
WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY
JONATHAN SWIFT
FROM THE BEASTS' CONFESSION
FROM VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT
CHARLES WESLEY
FOR CHRISTMAS-DAY
FOR EASTER-DAY
IN TEMPTATION
WRESTLING JACOB
ROBERT BLAIR
FROM THE GRAVE
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD
FROM ON RIDICULE
THE ENTHUSIAST
MARK AKENSIDE
FROM THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION
JOSEPH WARTON
FROM THE ENTHUSIAST; OR, THE LOVER OF NATURE
JOHN GILBERT COOPER
FROM THE POWER OF HARMONY
WILLIAM COLLINS
ODE TO EVENING
ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER
THE PASSIONS
ODE ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND
THOMAS WARTON
FROM THE PLEASURES OF MELANCHOLY
SONNET WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF DUGDALE'S 'MONASTICON'
SONNET WRITTEN AT STONEHENGE
SONNET TO THE RIVER LODON
THOMAS GRAY
ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE
HYMN TO ADVERSITY
ELEGY
THE EPITAPH
THE PROGRESS OF POESY
THE BARD
THE FATAL SISTERS
ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE
SAMUEL JOHNSON
RICHARD JAGO
FROM THE GOLDFINCHES
JOHN DALTON
JANE ELLIOT
THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST
CHARLES CHURCHILL
FROM THE ROSCIAD
FROM THE GHOST
JAMES MACPHERSON
FROM THE SONGS OF SELMA
[THE LAST WORDS OF OSSIAN]
CHRISTOPHER SMART
FROM A SONG TO DAVID
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
FROM THE TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY
THE DESERTED VILLAGE
FROM RETALIATION
JAMES BEATTIE
FROM THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS
LADY ANNE LINDSAY
AULD ROBIN GRAY
JEAN ADAMS
THERE'S NAE LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE
ROBERT FERGUSSON
THE DAFT DAYS
ANONYMOUS
ABSENCE
JOHN LANGHORNE
FROM THE COUNTRY JUSTICE
APOLOGY FOR VAGRANTS
AUGUSTUS MONTAGU TOPLADY
ROCK OF AGES
JOHN SKINNER
TULLOCHGORUM
THOMAS CHATTERTON
[SONGS FROM "AELLA, A TRAGYCAL ENTERLUDE, WROTENN BIE THOMAS ROWLEIE"]
SECONDE MYNSTRELLE
THYRDE MYNSTRELLE
SECONDE MYNSTRELLE
[O, SYNGE UNTOE MIE ROUNDELAIE]
AN EXCELENTE BALADE OF CHARITIE
THOMAS DAY
FROM THE DESOLATION OF AMERICA
GEORGE CRABBE
FROM THE VILLAGE
JOHN NEWTON
A VISION OF LIFE IN DEATH
WILLIAM COWPER
TO A YOUNG LADY
THE SHRUBBERY
[MAN'S INHUMANITY]
[LOVE OF ENGLAND]
[COWPER, THE RELIGIOUS RECLUSE]
[THE ARRIVAL OF THE POST]
[THE BASTILE]
[MEDITATION IN WINTER]
[KINDNESS TO ANIMALS]
ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE
TO MARY
THE CASTAWAY
WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES
EVENING
DOVER CLIFFS
ROBERT BURNS
MARY MORISON
THE HOLY FAIR
TO A LOUSE
FROM EPISTLE TO J. LAPRAIK
THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT
TO A MOUSE
TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY
EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND
A BARD'S EPITAPH
ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS
JOHN ANDEKSON, MY JO
THE LOVELY LASS OF INVERNESS
A RED, RED ROSE
AULD LANG SYNE
SWEET AFTON
THE HAPPY TRIO
TO MARY IN HEAVEN
TAM O' SHANTER: A TALE
AE FOND KISS
DUNCAN GRAY
HIGHLAND MARY
SCOTS, WHA HAE
IS THERE FOR HONEST POVERTY
LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER
O, WERT THOU IN THE CAULD BLAST
ERASMUS DARWIN
FROM THE BOTANIC GARDEN
WILLIAM BLAKE
TO WINTER
SONG
TO THE MUSES
INTRODUCTION TO SONGS OF INNOCENCE
THE LAMB
THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
A CRADLE SONG
HOLY THURSDAY
THE DIVINE IMAGE
ON ANOTHER'S SORROW
THE BOOK OF THEL
THE FLY
THE TIGER
HOLY THURSDAY
THE GARDEN OF LOVE
A LITTLE BOY LOST
THE SCHOOLBOY
LONDON
FROM MILTON
FROM JERUSALEM
GEORGE CANNING
FROM THE NEW MORALITY
CAROLINA, LADY NAIRNE
THE LAND O' THE LEAL
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