English Poets of the Eighteenth Century
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About This Book
'English Poets of the Eighteenth Century' is a poem anthology edited by Ernest Bernbaum. It contains works from authors that are remembered and forgotten by history. Some of the individuals featured include William Blake, George Canning, Robert Burns, Erasmus Darwin, George Canning, and Samuel Johnson.
Chapters (250)
- OF THE
- SELECTED AND EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION
- 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
- GLOSSARY:
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