Selected Contents by Theme xi <p>Alphabetical List of Authors xxi</p> <p>Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks xxii</p> <p>Introduction xxv</p> <p>Preface to Third Edition xxvii</p> <p>Preface to Second Edition xxix</p> <p>Editorial Procedures xxx</p> <p>Text xxxi</p> <p>Acknowledgements xxxii</p> <p>John Pomfret (1667–1702) 1</p> <p>The Choice 1</p> <p>John Philips (1676–1709) 6</p> <p>The Splendid Shilling 6</p> <p>Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670–1723) 11</p> <p>The Liberty 11</p> <p>On my leaving London 13</p> <p>To One who said I must not Love 14</p> <p>The Emulation 15</p> <p>Isaac Watts (1674–1748) 17</p> <p>The Adventurous Muse 17</p> <p>Ambrose Philips (1674–1749) 20</p> <p>A Winter-Piece 20</p> <p>Anne Finch (1661–1720) 22</p> <p>The Spleen 22</p> <p>Upon the Hurricane 26</p> <p>A Nocturnal Rêverie 33</p> <p>The Tree 35</p> <p>To the Nightingale 36</p> <p>A Sigh 37</p> <p>To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters 37</p> <p>Glass 38</p> <p>The Agreeable 39</p> <p>To Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses 40</p> <p>John Gay (1685–1732) 42</p> <p>Friday; or, The Dirge 43</p> <p>Trivia, Book II 47</p> <p>The Man and the Flea 62</p> <p>Thomas Parnell (1679–1718) 64</p> <p>An Elegy, To an Old Beauty 64</p> <p>A Night-Piece on Death 66</p> <p>Oft have I read 68</p> <p>Matthew Prior (1664–1721) 70</p> <p>For His own Epitaph 71</p> <p>An Epitaph 72</p> <p>The Lady’s Looking-Glass 73</p> <p>Non Pareil 74</p> <p>On a Pretty Madwoman 75</p> <p>True Statesmen 76</p> <p>Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) 78</p> <p>A Description of the Morning 79</p> <p>A Description of a City Shower 80</p> <p>Stella’s Birthday, 1719 81</p> <p>Stella’s Birthday, 1721 82</p> <p>Stella’s Birthday, 1727 84</p> <p>A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General 86</p> <p>The Lady’s Dressing Room 87</p> <p>A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 91</p> <p>Strephon and Chloe 93</p> <p>Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 100</p> <p>Alexander Pope (1688–1744) 114</p> <p>Windsor-Forest 115</p> <p>The Rape of the Lock 126</p> <p>Eloisa to Abelard 145</p> <p>To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington 154</p> <p>An Epistle to a Lady 160</p> <p>The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 167</p> <p>An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 172</p> <p>An Essay on Man. Epistle I 183</p> <p>The Dunciad, 1743, Book I 192</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) 204</p> <p>Saturday. The Small-Pox 205</p> <p>Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman 208</p> <p>Epistle from Mrs Y[onge] to her Husband 210</p> <p>The Lover: A Ballad 213</p> <p>An Epistle to Lord Bathurst 214</p> <p>Verses Address’d to the Imitator of Horace (with Lord Hervey) 216</p> <p>The Dean’s Provocation for Writing the Lady’s Dressing-Room 219</p> <p>Verses on Self-Murder 222</p> <p>A Hymn to the Moon 223</p> <p>Aaron Hill (1685–1750) 224</p> <p>Bellaria, at her Spinnet 224</p> <p>Whitehall Stairs 226</p> <p>The Singing-Bird 227</p> <p>Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229</p> <p>Richard Savage (c.1697–1743) 231</p> <p>The Bastard 231</p> <p>Unconstant 234</p> <p>Martha Fowke (1689–1736) 236</p> <p>The Innocent Inconstant 236</p> <p>The Invitation from a Country Cottage 237</p> <p>On Lady Chudleigh 238</p> <p>Clio’s Picture 239</p> <p>On being charged with Writing incorrectly 241</p> <p>A Letter to my Love.—All alone, past 12, in the Dumps 242</p> <p>James Thomson (1700–1748) 245</p> <p>Winter. A Poem (1726) 246</p> <p>Spring 256</p> <p>John Dyer (1699–1757) 283</p> <p>Grongar Hill 283</p> <p>The Fleece, Book III 287</p> <p>Stephen Duck (1705?–1756) 304</p> <p>The Thresher’s Labour 305</p> <p>Mary Collier (1688?–1762) 312</p> <p>The Woman’s Labour 312</p> <p>Sarah Dixon (1671–1765) 318</p> <p>Strephon to the River 318</p> <p>The Return’d Heart 319</p> <p>To the Muse 319</p> <p>From a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe 321</p> <p>Lines Occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters 323</p> <p>Mary Barber (c.1685–1755) 324</p> <p>To a Lady, who commanded me to send her an Account in Verse, how I succeeded in my Subscription 324</p> <p>Written for my Son, and Spoken by him at his first putting on Breeches 328</p> <p>The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330</p> <p>Mehetabel Wright (1697–1750) 332</p> <p>To an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth 332</p> <p>Wedlock: A Satire 333</p> <p>Address to Her Husband 334</p> <p>Anne Ingram (c.1696–1764) 337</p> <p>An Epistle to Mr Pope. By a Lady. Occasioned by his Characters of Women 337</p> <p>viii Contents (Short Titles)</p> <p>Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) 341</p> <p>London 341</p> <p>The Vanity of Human Wishes 350</p> <p>On the Death of Dr Robert Levet 359</p> <p>Mary Jones (1707–1778) 361</p> <p>An Epistle To Lady Bowyer 361</p> <p>Of Desire. An Epistle to the Hon. Miss Lovelace 364</p> <p>Elegy, On a favourite Dog, suppos’d to be poison’d 368</p> <p>After the Small Pox 370</p> <p>Mary Leapor (1722–1746) 372</p> <p>Dorinda at Her Glass 372</p> <p>An Epistle to a Lady 375</p> <p>The Enquiry 377</p> <p>Man the Monarch 379</p> <p>An Epistle to Artemisia 381</p> <p>Upon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret 385</p> <p>Crumble-Hall 386</p> <p>Mira’s Picture 391</p> <p>Soto. A Character 393</p> <p>Mark Akenside (1721–1770) 395</p> <p>The Pleasures of Imagination, 1744, Book I 395</p> <p>Thomas Gray (1716–1771) 412</p> <p>Ode on the Spring 413</p> <p>Sonnet on the Death of Richard West 414</p> <p>Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 415</p> <p>Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat 417</p> <p>Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419</p> <p>The Progress of Poesy 423</p> <p>The Bard 428</p> <p>William Collins (1721–1759) 433</p> <p>A Song from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline 433</p> <p>Ode on the Poetical Character 435</p> <p>Ode to Fear 437</p> <p>Ode to Evening 440</p> <p>Ode to Liberty 441</p> <p>The Passions. An Ode for Music 446</p> <p>Ode on the Death of Mr Thomson 449</p> <p>Joseph Warton (1722–1800) 452</p> <p>The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature 452</p> <p>Ode to Evening 459</p> <p>The Dying Indian 460</p> <p>Thomas Warton (1728–1790) 462</p> <p>The Pleasures of Melancholy 462</p> <p>Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470</p> <p>Sonnet: To the River Lodon 472</p> <p>Prologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse, over the butcher’s shambles 473</p> <p>Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window 474</p> <p>Robert Lloyd (1733–1764) 478</p> <p>The Cit’s Country Box 478</p> <p>Shakespeare: An Epistle to Mr Garrick 482</p> <p>Charles Churchill (1731–1764) 487</p> <p>Night 487</p> <p>Christopher Smart (1722–1771) 497</p> <p>‘My Cat Jeoffry’ 498</p> <p>A Song to David 500</p> <p>On a Bed of Guernsey Lilies 517</p> <p>James Macpherson (1736–1796) 519</p> <p>Fragments of Ancient Poetry: 7 and 8 519</p> <p>Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) 523</p> <p>Mynstrelles Songe 523</p> <p>‘Stay, curyous traveller’ 525</p> <p>An Excelente Balade of Charitie 526</p> <p>Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774) 530</p> <p>The Deserted Village 530</p> <p>George Crabbe (1754–1832) 541</p> <p>The Village, Book I 541</p> <p>Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 550</p> <p>To Stella; on a Visit to Mrs Montagu 551</p> <p>On Mrs Montagu 552</p> <p>Clifton Hill 554</p> <p>To Indifference 561</p> <p>To Mr ****, an Unlettered Poet 562</p> <p>Robert Burns (1759–1796) 565</p> <p>The Rigs o’ Barley 566</p> <p>To a Mouse 567</p> <p>To a Louse 568</p> <p>Holy Willie’s Prayer 570</p> <p>Tam o’ Shanter 573</p> <p>A Man’s a Man for a’ That 578</p> <p>Anna Seward (1742–1809) 581</p> <p>Sonnet. To Honora Sneyd 581</p> <p>Sonnet. To the Poppy 582</p> <p>Colebrooke Dale 582</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 586</p> <p>Corsica 586</p> <p>The Mouse’s Petition 592</p> <p>A Summer Evening’s Meditation 594</p> <p>To Mr Barbauld 597</p> <p>The Rights of Woman 598</p> <p>To a little invisible Being 599</p> <p>Washing-Day 600</p> <p>To Mr Coleridge 603</p> <p>William Cowper (1731–1800) 605</p> <p>‘Hatred and Vengeance’ 606</p> <p>The Poplar-Field 606</p> <p>Epitaph on a Hare 607</p> <p>The Task, Book I 609</p> <p>The Negro’s Complaint 627</p> <p>Yardley Oak 629</p> <p>On the Ice-islands 634</p> <p>The Cast-away 635</p> <p>Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 638</p> <p>London’s Summer Morning 638</p> <p>The Poet’s Garret 639</p> <p>The Birth-day 641</p> <p>Bibliography 644</p> <p>Index of Titles and First Lines 650</p> <p>Selected Contents by Theme</p> <p><b>1 WOMEN’S ROLE IN SOCIETY</b></p> <p>Sarah Fyge Egerton, The Liberty 11</p> <p>The Emulation 15</p> <p>Anne Finch, The Spleen 22</p> <p>To Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses 40</p> <p>Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock 126</p> <p>An Epistle to a Lady 160</p> <p>Martha Fowke, On Lady Chudleigh 238</p> <p>Mary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 312</p> <p>Mary Barber, The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330</p> <p>Anne Ingram, An Epistle to Mr Pope 337</p> <p>Mary Jones, Of Desire 364</p> <p>Mary Leapor, Man the Monarch 379</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Rights of Woman 598</p> <p>Washing-Day 600</p> <p><b>2 BEAUTY AND VANITY</b></p> <p>Anne Finch, The Agreeable 39</p> <p>Thomas Parnell, An Elegy, To an Old Beauty 64</p> <p>Jonathan Swift, Stella’s Birthday, 1719 81</p> <p>Stella’s Birthday, 1721 82</p> <p>The Lady’s Dressing Room 87</p> <p>A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 91</p> <p>Strephon and Chloe, 1–38 93</p> <p>Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, 1:121–48, 2:1–28 126</p> <p>An Epistle to a Lady 160</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Saturday. The Small-Pox 205</p> <p>Martha Fowke, Clio’s Picture 239</p> <p>Anne Ingram, An Epistle to Mr Pope 337</p> <p>Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, 319–44 350</p> <p>Mary Jones, After the Small Pox 370</p> <p>Mary Leapor, Dorinda at Her Glass 372</p> <p>Mira’s Picture 391</p> <p>Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, 1:271–387 395</p> <p>Robert Burns, To a Louse 568</p> <p>Anna Seward, Sonnet. To the Poppy 582</p> <p><b>3 LOVE AND COURTSHIP</b></p> <p>Sarah Fyge Egerton, To One who said I must not Love 14</p> <p>Anne Finch, A Sigh 37</p> <p>Matthew Prior, The Lady’s Looking-Glass 73</p> <p>Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard 145</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman 210</p> <p>The Lover: A Ballad 213</p> <p>Aaron Hill, Whitehall Stairs 226</p> <p>Richard Savage, Unconstant 234</p> <p>Martha Fowke, The Innocent Inconstant 236</p> <p>A Letter to my Love 242</p> <p>James Thomson, Spring, 582–630, 983–1112 256</p> <p>Sarah Dixon, Strephon to the River 318</p> <p>The Return’d Heart 319</p> <p>From a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe 321</p> <p>Lines occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters 323</p> <p>Robert Burns, The Rigs o’ Barley 566</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, To Mr Barbauld 597</p> <p><b>4 MARRIAGE</b></p> <p>Matthew Prior, An Epitaph 72</p> <p>Jonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe 93</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle from Mrs Y[onge] to her Husband 210</p> <p>Aaron Hill, Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229</p> <p>James Thomson, Spring, 1113–76. 256</p> <p>Mary Barber, The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330</p> <p>Mehetabel Wright, Wedlock: A Satire 333</p> <p>Address to Her Husband 334</p> <p>Robert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, To Mr Barbauld 597</p> <p><b>5 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN</b></p> <p>Mary Collier, The Woman’s Labour, 105–20 312</p> <p>Mary Barber, Written for my Son, and Spoken by him at his first putting on Breeches 328</p> <p>The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330</p> <p>Mehetabel Wright, To an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth 332</p> <p>Ann Yearsley, Clifton Hill, 67–92 554</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, To a little invisible Being 599</p> <p>Washing-Day 600</p> <p><b>6 HUMANS AND ANIMALS</b></p> <p>Anne Finch, To the Nightingale 36</p> <p>John Gay, The Man and the Flea 62</p> <p>Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest, 43–164 115</p> <p>An Essay on Man, 1:77–90, 173–246 183</p> <p>Aaron Hill, The Singing-Bird 227</p> <p>James Thomson, Winter. A Poem, 216–52 246</p> <p>Spring, 336–442 256</p> <p>Mary Jones, Elegy, On a Favourite Dog, suppos’d to be poison’d 368</p> <p>Thomas Gray, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat 417</p> <p>Thomas Warton, Prologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse 473</p> <p>Christopher Smart, ‘my Cat Jeoffry’ 498</p> <p>Robert Burns, To a Mouse 567</p> <p>To a Louse 568</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Mouse’s Petition 592</p> <p>William Cowper, Epitaph on a Hare 607</p> <p>Selected Contents by Theme xiii</p> <p><b>7 THE NATURAL WORLD</b></p> <p>Ambrose Philips, A Winter-Piece 20</p> <p>Anne Finch, Upon the Hurricane 26</p> <p>A Nocturnal Rêverie 33</p> <p>The Tree 35</p> <p>Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest 115</p> <p>James Thomson, Winter. A Poem 246</p> <p>Spring 256</p> <p>John Dyer, Grongar Hill 283</p> <p>Mary Leapor, The Enquiry 377</p> <p>Thomas Gray, Ode on the Spring 413</p> <p>William Collins, Ode to Evening 440</p> <p>Joseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature 452</p> <p>Ode to Evening 459</p> <p>Thomas Warton, Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470</p> <p>Thomas Chatterton, An Excelente Balade of Charitie 526</p> <p>Ann Yearsley, Clifton Hill 554</p> <p>Anna Seward, Colebrooke Dale 582</p> <p>William Cowper, The Poplar-Field 606</p> <p>The Task, 1:103–454 609</p> <p>Yardley Oak 629</p> <p>On the Ice-islands 634</p> <p><b>8 URBAN LIFE</b></p> <p>John Philips, The Splendid Shilling 6</p> <p>John Gay, Trivia, Book II 47</p> <p>Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning 79</p> <p>A Description of a City Shower 80</p> <p>Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, 1743, Book I 192</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Saturday. The Small-Pox 205</p> <p>Aaron Hill, Whitehall Stairs 226</p> <p>John Dyer, The Fleece, 3:224–348 287</p> <p>Samuel Johnson, London 341</p> <p>Thomas Warton, Prologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse 473</p> <p>Anna Seward, Colebrooke Dale, 44–73 582</p> <p>William Cowper, The Task, 1:678–774 609</p> <p>Mary Robinson, London’s Summer Morning 638</p> <p>The Poet’s Garret 639</p> <p>The Birth-day 641</p> <p><b>9 HOUSES AND GARDENS</b></p> <p>John Pomfret, The Choice 1</p> <p>Alexander Pope, Epistle to Burlington 154</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, An Epistle to Lord Bathurst 214</p> <p>James Thomson, Spring, 904–62 256</p> <p>Samuel Johnson, London, 194–223 341</p> <p>Mary Leapor, Crumble-Hall 386</p> <p>Robert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478</p> <p>William Cowper, The Task, 1:210–51 609</p> <p><b>10 RURAL LIFE AND LABOUR</b></p> <p>John Gay, Friday; or, The Dirge 43</p> <p>Thomas Parnell, Oft have I read 68</p> <p>Martha Fowke, The Invitation from a Country Cottage 237</p> <p>John Dyer, The Fleece, Book III 287</p> <p>Stephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour 305</p> <p>Mary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 312</p> <p>Mary Leapor, Crumble-Hall 386</p> <p>Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419</p> <p>Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530</p> <p>George Crabbe, The Village, Book I 541</p> <p>Ann Yearsley, Clifton Hill 554</p> <p>Robert Burns, To a Mouse 567</p> <p>11 SOCIAL CHANGE</p> <p>Anne Finch, Upon the Hurricane 26</p> <p>Mary Leapor, Crumble-Hall 386</p> <p>Robert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478</p> <p>Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530</p> <p>George Crabbe, The Village, Book I 541</p> <p>Thomas Chatterton, An Excelente Balade of Charitie 526</p> <p>Robert Burns, A Man’s a Man for a’ That 578</p> <p>Anna Seward, Colebrooke Dale 582</p> <p>William Cowper, The Negro’s Complaint 627</p> <p>Mary Robinson, The Birth-day 641</p> <p>12 NOCTURNAL MEDITATION</p> <p>Anne Finch, A Nocturnal Rêverie 33</p> <p>Thomas Parnell, A Night-Piece on Death 66</p> <p>Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard 145</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, A Hymn to the Moon 223</p> <p>Martha Fowke, A Letter to my Love 242</p> <p>Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419</p> <p>William Collins, Ode to Evening 440</p> <p>Joseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature, 200–32 452</p> <p>Ode to Evening 459</p> <p>Thomas Warton, The Pleasures of Melancholy 462</p> <p>Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470</p> <p>Charles Churchill, Night 487</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, A Summer Evening’s Meditation 594</p> <p><b>13 THE ROLE OF THE POET</b></p> <p>Isaac Watts, The Adventurous Muse 17</p> <p>Anne Finch, To the Nightingale 36</p> <p>To Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses 40</p> <p>Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 100</p> <p>Selected Contents by Theme xv</p> <p>Alexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 167</p> <p>An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 172</p> <p>The Dunciad, 1743, Book I 192</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Verses Address’d to the Imitator of Horace 216</p> <p>Aaron Hill, The Singing-Bird 227</p> <p>Martha Fowke, On Lady Chudleigh 238</p> <p>On being charged with Writing incorrectly 241</p> <p>Sarah Dixon, To the Muse 319</p> <p>Mary Barber, To a Lady 324</p> <p>Mary Leapor, An Epistle to Artemisia 381</p> <p>Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy 423</p> <p>The Bard 428</p> <p>William Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character 435</p> <p>Ode on the Death of Mr Thomson 449</p> <p>Joseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature 452</p> <p>Robert Lloyd, Shakespeare: An Epistle to Mr Garrick 482</p> <p>Ann Yearsley, To Mr ****, an Unlettered Poet 562</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, To Mr Coleridge 603</p> <p>Mary Robinson, The Poet’s Garret 639</p> <p><b>14 LITERARY PATRONAGE AND THE ECONOMICS OF AUTHORSHIP</b></p> <p>John Philips, The Splendid Shilling 6</p> <p>Alexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 167</p> <p>An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 172</p> <p>The Dunciad, 1743, Book I 192</p> <p>Mary Barber, To a Lady 324</p> <p>Samuel Johnson, London 341</p> <p>The Vanity of Human Wishes, 73–90 350</p> <p>Mary Jones, An Epistle to Lady Bowyer 361</p> <p>Mary Leapor, An Epistle to Artemisia 381</p> <p>Upon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret 385</p> <p>Mary Robinson, The Poet’s Garret 639</p> <p><b>15 AUTOBIOGRAPHY</b></p> <p>Sarah Fyge Egerton, The Liberty 11</p> <p>On my leaving London 13</p> <p>To One who said I must not Love 14</p> <p>Anne Finch, The Spleen 22</p> <p>Matthew Prior, For His own Epitaph 71</p> <p>Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 100</p> <p>Alexander Pope, An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 172</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Verses on Self-Murder 222</p> <p>Richard Savage, The Bastard 231</p> <p>Martha Fowke, A Letter to my Love 242</p> <p>Stephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour 305</p> <p>Mary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 312</p> <p>Sarah Dixon, To the Muse 319</p> <p>Mehetabel Wright, Address to Her Husband 334</p> <p>Mary Jones, An Epistle to Lady Bowyer 361</p> <p>Mary Leapor, An Epistle to a Lady 375</p> <p>An Epistle to Artemisia 381</p> <p>Mira’s Picture 391</p> <p>Thomas Gray, Sonnet on the Death of Richard West 414</p> <p>Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419</p> <p>Thomas Warton, Sonnet: To the River Lodon 472</p> <p>Ann Yearsley, To Stella; on a Visit to Mrs Montagu 551</p> <p>On Mrs Montagu 552</p> <p>To Indifference 561</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Washing-Day 600</p> <p>William Cowper, The Task, 1:103–80 609</p> <p>16 RECOVERING THE PAST</p> <p>Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest 115</p> <p>Aaron Hill, Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229</p> <p>John Dyer, Grongar Hill 283</p> <p>Mary Leapor, Crumble-Hall 386</p> <p>Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 415</p> <p>The Progress of Poesy 423</p> <p>The Bard 428</p> <p>William Collins, Ode to Liberty 441</p> <p>Thomas Warton, Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470</p> <p>Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window 474</p> <p>James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry: 7 and 8 519</p> <p>Thomas Chatterton, Mynstrelles Songe 523</p> <p>‘Stay, curyous traveller’ 525</p> <p>An Excelente Balade of Charitie 526</p> <p>Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530</p> <p>Anna Seward, Colebrooke Dale 582</p> <p>17 CONTEMPLATING DEATH</p> <p>John Gay, Friday; or, The Dirge 43</p> <p>Thomas Parnell, A Night-Piece on Death 66</p> <p>Matthew Prior, For His own Epitaph 71</p> <p>An Epitaph 72</p> <p>Jonathan Swift, A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General 86</p> <p>Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 100</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Verses on Self-Murder 222</p> <p>Aaron Hill, Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229</p> <p>Martha Fowke, On Lady Chudleigh 238</p> <p>Mehetabel Wright, To an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth 332</p> <p>Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes 350</p> <p>On the Death of Dr Robert Levet 359</p> <p>Mary Jones, Elegy, On a Favourite Dog, suppos’d to be poison’d 368</p> <p>Thomas Gray, Sonnet on the Death of Richard West 414</p> <p>Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat 417</p> <p>Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 419</p> <p>William Collins, A Song from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline 433</p> <p>Ode on the Death of Mr Thomson 449</p> <p>Joseph Warton, The Dying Indian 460</p> <p>Thomas Chatterton, Mynstrelles Songe 523</p> <p>Ann Yearsley, Clifton Hill, 73–92 554</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Mouse’s Petition 592</p> <p>William Cowper, ‘Hatred and vengeance’ 606</p> <p>Epitaph on a Hare 607</p> <p>The Cast-away 635</p> <p>18 MADNESS</p> <p>Anne Finch, The Spleen 22</p> <p>Matthew Prior, On a Pretty Madwoman 75</p> <p>James Thomson, Spring, 1004–1112 256</p> <p>William Collins, Ode to Fear 437</p> <p>Ann Yearsley, Clifton Hill, 206–96 554</p> <p>To Indifference 561</p> <p>William Cowper, The Task, 1:534–56 609</p> <p>19 VISIONS</p> <p>Isaac Watts, The Adventurous Muse 17</p> <p>Thomas Parnell, A Night-Piece on Death 66</p> <p>Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto IV 126</p> <p>Eloisa to Abelard 145</p> <p>Aaron Hill, Bellaria, at her Spinnet 224</p> <p>Martha Fowke, A Letter to my Love 242</p> <p>James Thomson, Winter. A Poem, 253–300 246</p> <p>Mary Leapor, The Enquiry 377</p> <p>Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, 1:151–221 395</p> <p>Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 415</p> <p>The Bard 428</p> <p>William Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character 435</p> <p>Ode to Fear 437</p> <p>The Passions. An Ode for Music 446</p> <p>Joseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature, 180–252 452</p> <p>Thomas Warton, The Pleasures of Melancholy 462</p> <p>Christopher Smart, A Song to David 500</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, A Summer Evening’s Meditation 594</p> <p>To Mr Coleridge 603</p> <p>20 THE IMAGINATION</p> <p>Anne Finch, The Spleen 22</p> <p>Jonathan Swift, The Lady’s Dressing Room 87</p> <p>Aaron Hill, Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton 229</p> <p>James Thomson, Spring, 443–79 256</p> <p>Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, Book I 395</p> <p>William Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character 435</p> <p>xviii Selected Contents by Theme</p> <p>Thomas Warton, Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire 470</p> <p>Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window 474</p> <p>21 LIBERTY</p> <p>Sarah Fyge Egerton, The Liberty 11</p> <p>Anne Finch, A Nocturnal Rêverie 33</p> <p>Aaron Hill, The Singing-Bird 227</p> <p>Richard Savage, The Bastard 231</p> <p>Sarah Dixon, Lines occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters 323</p> <p>Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 415</p> <p>William Collins, Ode to Liberty 441</p> <p>Charles Churchill, Night 487</p> <p>Robert Burns, A Man’s a Man for a’ That 578</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Corsica 586</p> <p>William Cowper, The Negro’s Complaint 627</p> <p>22 GOD IN NATURE</p> <p>Anne Finch, Upon the Hurricane 26</p> <p>John Gay, The Man and the Flea 62</p> <p>Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistle I 183</p> <p>James Thomson, Winter. A Poem 246</p> <p>Spring, 556–71, 849–903 256</p> <p>Mary Leapor, The Enquiry 377</p> <p>Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, 1:56–78 395</p> <p>Christopher Smart, A Song to David 500</p> <p>On a Bed of Guernsey Lilies 517</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, A Summer Evening’s Meditation 594</p> <p>23 WEALTH AND POVERTY</p> <p>John Philips, The Splendid Shilling 6</p> <p>Alexander Pope, Epistle to Burlington 154</p> <p>Martha Fowke, The Invitation from a Country Cottage 237</p> <p>Stephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour 305</p> <p>Mary Collier, The Woman’s Labour 312</p> <p>Samuel Johnson, London 341</p> <p>The Vanity of Human Wishes, 21–8 350</p> <p>Robert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478</p> <p>Thomas Chatterton, An Excelente Balade of Charitie 526</p> <p>Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530</p> <p>George Crabbe, The Village, Book I 541</p> <p>Robert Burns, A Man’s a Man for a’ That 578</p> <p>Mary Robinson, The Poet’s Garret 639</p> <p>The Birth-day 641</p> <p>24 ART AND NATURE</p> <p>Anne Finch, Glass 38</p> <p>Jonathan Swift, A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 91</p> <p>Alexander Pope, Epistle to Burlington 154</p> <p>Selected Contents by Theme xix</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, An Epistle to Lord Bathurst 214</p> <p>Martha Fowke, The Invitation from a Country Cottage 237</p> <p>Clio’s Picture 239</p> <p>Mary Barber, Written for my Son, and Spoken by him at his first putting on Breeches 328</p> <p>Joseph Warton, The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature 452</p> <p>Thomas Warton, Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window 474</p> <p>Robert Lloyd, The Cit’s Country Box 478</p> <p>William Cowper, The Task, 1:409–35 609</p> <p>25 PORTRAITS</p> <p>Anne Finch, The Agreeable 39</p> <p>Matthew Prior, An Epitaph 72</p> <p>Non Pareil 74</p> <p>Jonathan Swift, A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General 86</p> <p>A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 91</p> <p>Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, 307–484 100</p> <p>Alexander Pope, An Epistle to a Lady 160</p> <p>An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 193–214, 305–33 172</p> <p>The Dunciad, 1743, 1:107–46 192</p> <p>Aaron Hill, Bellaria, at her Spinnet 224</p> <p>Richard Savage, Unconstant 234</p> <p>Martha Fowke, The Innocent Inconstant 236</p> <p>On Lady Chudleigh 238</p> <p>Clio’s Picture 239</p> <p>Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, 99–120, 191–222 350</p> <p>On the Death of Dr Robert Levet 359</p> <p>Mary Jones, Of Desire, 35–118 364</p> <p>Mary Leapor, An Epistle to Artemisia 381</p> <p>Mira’s Picture 391</p> <p>Soto. A Character 393</p> <p>Christopher Smart, ‘My Cat Jeoffry’ 498</p> <p>Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 189–218 530</p> <p>George Crabbe, The Village, 1:184–227, 276–319 541</p> <p>Ann Yearsley, Clifton Hill, 206–96 554</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Corsica, 107–32 586</p> <p>William Cowper, The Task, 1:534–56, 633–77 609</p> <p>26 MUSIC</p> <p>Anne Finch, To the Nightingale 36</p> <p>Aaron Hill, Bellaria, at her Spinnet 224</p> <p>Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, 1:109–38 395</p> <p>Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy 423</p> <p>William Collins, The Passions. An Ode for Music 446</p> <p>27 LETTERS</p> <p>Anne Finch, To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters 37</p> <p>Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard 145</p> <p>Epistle to Burlington 154</p> <p>An Epistle to a Lady 160</p> <p>xx Selected Contents by Theme</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman 208</p> <p>Epistle from Mrs Y[onge] to her Husband 210</p> <p>An Epistle to Lord Bathurst 214</p> <p>Martha Fowke, A Letter to my Love 242</p> <p>Sarah Dixon, From a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe 321</p> <p>Lines occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters 323</p> <p>Mary Barber, The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C– 330</p> <p>Mary Jones, An Epistle to Lady Bowyer 361</p> <p>Of Desire 364</p> <p>Mary Leapor, An Epistle to a Lady 375</p> <p>An Epistle to Artemisia 381</p> <p>Robert Lloyd, Shakespeare: An Epistle to Mr Garrick 482</p> <p>28 POLITICS, POWER, AND THE STATE</p> <p>Anne Finch, Upon the Hurricane 26</p> <p>Matthew Prior, True Statesmen 76</p> <p>Jonathan Swift, A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General 86</p> <p>Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, 299–484 100</p> <p>Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest 115</p> <p>Samuel Johnson, London 341</p> <p>Thomas Gray, The Bard 428</p> <p>William Collins, Ode to Liberty 441</p> <p>Charles Churchill, Night 487</p> <p>Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village 530</p> <p>Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Corsica 586</p> <p>William Cowper, The Negro’s Complaint 627</p> <p>29 LYRIC</p> <p>Anne Finch, A Sigh 37</p> <p>Matthew Prior, Non Pareil 74</p> <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, A Hymn to the Moon 223</p> <p>William Collins, A Song from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline 433</p> <p>Thomas Chatterton, Mynstrelles Songe 523</p> <p>Robert Burns, The Rigs o’ Barley 566</p>