Anthologies

Eighteenth-Century Poetry:

An Annotated Anthology

Edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard

London: Blackwell, 1998

CONTENTS

JOHN POMFRET (1667-1702)

The Choice

JOHN PHILIPS (1676-1709)

The Splendid Shilling

SARAH FRYE EGERTON (1670-1723)

The Liberty
On my leaving London
To One who said I must not Love
The Emulation

ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748)

The Adventurous Muse

AMBROSE PHILIPS (1674-1749)

A Winter-Piece

ANNE FINCH (1661-1720)

The Spleen
Upon the Hurricane
A Nocturnal Reverie
To the Nightingale
A Sigh
The Agreeable

JOHN GAY (1685-1732)

Friday; or, The Dirge, from The Shepherd's Week
Trivia, Book 2

THOMAS PARNELL (1679-1718)

An Elegy, To an Old Beauty
A Night-Piece on Death
Oft have I read

MATTHEW PRIOR (1664-1721)

For His own Epitaph
An Epitaph
The Lady's Looking-Glass
Non Pareil
On a Pretty Madwoman

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)

A Description of the Morning
A Description of a City Shower
Stella's Birthday, 1721
Stella's Birthday, 1727
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed
Strephon and Chloe
Verses on the Death of Dr Swift

ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)

Windsor-Forest
The Rape of the Lock
Eloisa to Abelard
Epistle to Burlington
Epistle to a Lady
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
The Dunciad, 1743, Book 1

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762)

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 (with Lord Hervey)
Verses on Self-Murder
A Hymn to the Moon

JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)

Spring

RICHARD SAVAGE (c.1697-1743)

The Wanderer, Canto IV

JOHN DYER (1699-1757)

Grongar Hill
The Fleece, Book III

STEPHEN DUCK (1705?-1756)

The Thresher's Labour

MARY COLLIER (1690?-c.1762)

The Woman's Labour

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)

The Vanity of Human Wishes
On the Death of Dr Robert Levet

MARY JONES (1707-1778)

An Epistle to Lady Bowyer
Of Desire
After the Small Pox

MARY LEAPOR (1722-1746)

Dorinda at her Glass
An Epistle to a Lady
The Enquiry
Man the Monarch
An Epistle to Artemisia
Crumble-Hall

MARK AKENSIDE (1721-1770)

The Pleasures of Imagination. 1744, Book 1

THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)

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

WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)

Ode on the Poetical Character
Ode to Evening
Ode to Liberty
The Passions: An Ode for Music

JOSEPH WARTON (1722-1800)

The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature
Ode to Evening
The Dying Indian

THOMAS WARTON (1728-1790)

The Pleasures of Melancholy
Ode Written at Vale-Royal Abbey
Sonnet: To the River Lodon
Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold's Painted Window

ROBERT LLOYD (1733-1764)

The Cit's Country Box

CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771)

'my Cat Jeoffry', from Jubliate Agno
A Song to David
On a Bed of Guernsey Lilies

JAMES MACPHERSON (1736-1796)

Fragments of Ancient Poetry: 7 and 8

THOMAS CHATTERTON (1752-1770)

Mynstrelles Songe, from AElla
'Stay, curyous traveller'
An Excelente Balade of Charitie

OLIVER GOLDSMITH (?1730-1774)

The Deserted Village

GEORGE CRABBE (1754-1832)

The Village, Book 1

ANN YEARSLEY (1753-1806)

To Stella; on a Visit to Mrs Montagu
On Mrs Montagu
Clifton Hill
To Mr ****, an Unlettered Poet

ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)

The Vision
To a Mouse
To a Louse
Holy Willie's Prayer
Tam o'Shanter

ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)

Corsica
A Summer Evening's Meditation
To Mr Barbauld
The Rights of Woman
To a little invisible Being
To Mr Coleridge

WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)

'Hatred and Vengeance'
The Task, Book 1
Yardley Oak
On the Ice-islands
The Cast-away

CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806)

Sonnet: Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex
Sonnet: To Fancy
Sonnet: The Gossamer
Sonnet: On being cautioned against walking on a headland
Elegy

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850)

Sonnet: Written at Tinemouth
Sonnet: To the River Wensbeck
Sonnet: Written at Ostend
Elegy Written at the Hot-Wells, Bristol

ANNA SEWARD (1742-1809)

Colebrooke Dale
Sonnet: To the Poppy

MARY ROBINSON (1758-1800)

London's Summer Morning
The Poet's Garret
The Birth-day

HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS (?1761-1827)

To Dr Moore
A Hymn written among the Alps