Eighteenth-Century Poetry E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Blackwell Annotated Anthologies
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1764

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.

• Balanced to reflect current interests and "favorites" (including prominent poets like Finch, Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Gray, Burns, and Cowper) as well as  less familiar material, offering a variety of voices and new directions for research and learning
• Includes 46 new poems with more texts by women poets and the inclusion of four additional poets (Mary Barber, Mehetabel Wright, Anna Seward, and Mary Robinson); poems reflecting new ecological approaches to 18th-century literature; and poems on the art of writing
• Accessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, full foot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and a visually appealing text design

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Blackwell Annotated Anthologies

Title page

Copyright page

Selected Contents by Theme

Alphabetical List of Authors

Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks

Introduction

Preface to Third Edition

Preface to Second Edition

Editorial Procedures

The Text

Acknowledgements

John Pomfret (1667–1702)

The Choice

John Philips (1676–1709)

The Splendid Shilling

Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670–1723)

The Liberty

On my leaving London, June the 29

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 Rêverie

The Tree

To the Nightingale

A Sigh

To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters

Glass

The Agreeable

To Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses

John Gay (1685–1732)

The Shepherd's Week

Friday; or, The Dirge

Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London

The Man and the Flea

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

True Statesmen

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

A Description of the Morning

A Description of a City Shower

Stella's Birthday, 1719

Stella's Birthday, 1721

Stella's Birthday, 1727

A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General

The Lady's Dressing Room

A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed

Strephon and Chloe

Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D.

Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

Windsor-Forest

The Rape of the Lock

Eloisa to Abelard

To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington. Of the Use of Riches

An Epistle to a Lady Of the Characters of Women

The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated

An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot

An Essay on Man

The Dunciad, 1743

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)

Saturday. The Small-Pox. Flavia.

Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman, after his Condemnation for attempting a Rape

Epistle from Mrs Y[onge] to her Husband

The Lover: A Ballad

An Epistle to Lord Bathurst

Verses Address'd to the Imitator of Horace

The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room

Verses on Self-Murder, address'd to —

A Hymn to the Moon

Aaron Hill (1685–1750)

Bellaria, at her spinnet

Whitehall Stairs

The Singing-Bird

Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton. April the 25th, 1737

Richard Savage (

c

.1697–1743)

The Bastard

Unconstant

Martha Fowke (1689–1736)

The Innocent Inconstant

The Invitation from a Country Cottage

On Lady Chudleigh

Clio's Picture

On being charged with Writing incorrectly

A Letter to my Love.—All alone, past 12, in the Dumps

James Thomson (1700–1748)

The Seasons

Winter. A Poem (1726)

Spring

John Dyer (1699–1757)

Grongar Hill

The Fleece

Stephen Duck (1705?–1756)

The Thresher's Labour

Mary Collier (1688?–1762)

The Woman's Labour

Sarah Dixon (1671–1765)

Strephon to the River

The Return'd Heart

To the Muse

From a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe

Lines Occasion'd by the Burning of some Letters

Mary Barber (

c

.1685–1755)

To a Lady, who commanded me to send her an Account in Verse, how I succeeded in my Subscription

Written for my Son, and Spoken by him at his first putting on Breeches

The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C–

Mehetabel Wright (1697–1750)

To an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth

Wedlock: A Satire

Address to Her Husband

Anne Ingram (

c.

1696–1764)

An Epistle to Mr Pope. By a Lady. Occasioned by his Characters of Women

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

London

The Vanity of Human Wishes

On the Death of Dr Robert Levet

Mary Jones (1707–1778)

An Epistle to Lady Bowyer

Of Desire. An Epistle to the Hon. Miss Lovelace

Elegy, On a favourite Dog, suppos'd to be poison'd

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. On Fame

Upon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret

Crumble-Hall

Mira's Picture

Soto. A Character

Mark Akenside (1721–1770)

The Pleasures of Imagination

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, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard

The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode

The Bard. A Pindaric Ode

William Collins (1721–1759)

A Song from Shakespeare's

Cymbeline

Ode on the Poetical Character

Ode to Fear

Ode to Evening

Ode to Liberty

The Passions. An Ode for Music

Ode on the Death of Mr Thomson

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 in Cheshire

Sonnet: To the River Lodon

Prologue on the Old Winchester Playhouse, over the butcher's shambles

Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds's Painted Window at New-College Oxford

Robert Lloyd (1733–1764)

The Cit's Country Box

Shakespeare: An Epistle to Mr Garrick

Charles Churchill (1731–1764)

Night. An Epistle to Robert Lloyd

Christopher Smart (1722–1771)

‘My Cat Jeoffry’

A Song to David

On a Bed of Guernsey Lilies

James Macpherson (1736–1796)

Fragment 7

Fragment 8

Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770)

Mynstrelles Songe

‘Stay, curyous traveller’

An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As wroten bie the gode Prieste Thomas Rowley, 1464

Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)

The Deserted Village

George Crabbe (1754–1832)

The Village

Ann Yearsley (1753–1806)

To Stella; on a Visit to Mrs Montagu

On Mrs Montagu

Clifton Hill

To Indifference

To Mr * * * *, an Unlettered Poet, on Genius Unimproved

Robert Burns (1759–1796)

The Rigs o' Barley

To a Mouse

To a Louse

Holy Willie's Prayer

Tam o' Shanter. A Tale

A Man's a Man for a' That

Anna Seward (1742–1809)

Sonnet. To Honora Sneyd

Sonnet. To the Poppy

Colebrooke Dale

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)

Corsica

The Mouse's Petition

A Summer Evening's Meditation

To Mr Barbauld

The Rights of Woman

To a little invisible Being who is expected soon to become visible

Washing-Day

To Mr Coleridge

William Cowper (1731–1800)

‘Hatred and Vengeance’

The Poplar-Field

Epitaph on a Hare

The Task

The Negro's Complaint

Yardley Oak

On the Ice-islands seen floating in the Germanic Ocean

The Cast-away

Mary Robinson (1758–1800)

London's Summer Morning

The Poet's Garret

The Birth-day

Bibliography

Mark Akenside

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Mary Barber

Robert Burns

Thomas Chatterton

Charles Churchill

Mary Collier

William Collins

William Cowper

George Crabbe

Sarah Dixon

Stephen Duck

John Dyer

Sarah Fyge Egerton

Anne Finch

Martha Fowke

John Gay

Oliver Goldsmith

Thomas Gray

Aaron Hill

Anne Ingram

Samuel Johnson

Mary Jones

Mary Leapor

Robert Lloyd

James Macpherson

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Thomas Parnell

Ambrose Philips

John Philips

John Pomfret

Alexander Pope

Matthew Prior

Mary Robinson

Richard Savage

Anna Seward

Christopher Smart

Jonathan Swift

James Thomson

Joseph Warton

Thomas Warton

Isaac Watts

Mehetabel Wright

Ann Yearsley

Index of Titles and First Lines

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Blackwell Annotated Anthologies

Advisory Editors

Robert Cummings, University of Glasgow; David Fairer, University of Leeds; Christine Gerrard, University of Oxford; Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex; Angela Leighton, University of Hull; Michael O'Neill, University of Durham; Duncan Wu, University of Oxford.

This series of mid-length anthologies is devoted to poetry and the provision of key texts, canonical and post-canonical, with detailed annotation, sufficient to facilitate close reading, for use on specialist and appropriate survey courses. Headnotes and foot-of-page notes are designed to provide contexts for poets and poems alike, elucidating references and pointing to allusions. Selected variants may be given, where these provide vitally illuminating clues to a work's evolution and editorial history, and there are cross-references between poems.

Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology

Edited by Gordon Braden

Seventeenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology

Edited by Robert Cummings

Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology, Third Edition

Edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard

Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology

Edited by Michael O'Neill and Charles Mahoney

Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology

Edited by Francis O'Gorman

This edition first published 2015

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Paperback    9781118824757

Eighteenth-century poetry : an annotated anthology / edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. – Third edition.

            pages cm

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    ISBN 978-1-118-82475-7 (pbk.)

    1.  English poetry–18th century.    I.  Fairer, David, editor.    II.  Gerrard, Christine, editor.

    PR1215.E53 2015

    821'.508–dc23

                                                                                                2014018393

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Cover image: John Francis Rigaud, Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin and Mrs Letitia Anne Sage, in a Balloon, 1785, oil on copper. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA / The Bridgeman Art Library

Selected Contents by Theme

1 WOMEN’S ROLE IN SOCIETY

Sarah Fyge Egerton,

The Liberty

The Emulation

Anne Finch,

The Spleen

To Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses

Alexander Pope,

The Rape of the Lock

An Epistle to a Lady

Martha Fowke,

On Lady Chudleigh

Mary Collier,

The Woman’s Labour

Mary Barber,

The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C–

Anne Ingram,

An Epistle to Mr Pope

Mary Jones,

Of Desire

Mary Leapor,

Man the Monarch

Anna Laetitia Barbauld,

The Rights of Woman

Washing-Day

2 BEAUTY AND VANITY

Anne Finch,

The Agreeable

Thomas Parnell,

An Elegy, To an Old Beauty

Jonathan Swift,

Stella’s Birthday, 1719

Stella’s Birthday, 1721

The Lady’s Dressing Room

A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed

Strephon and Chloe,

1–38

Alexander Pope,

The Rape of the Lock

, 1:121–48, 2:1–28

An Epistle to a Lady

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,

Saturday. The Small-Pox

Martha Fowke,

Clio’s Picture

Anne Ingram,

An Epistle to Mr Pope

Samuel Johnson,

The Vanity of Human Wishes

, 319–44

Mary Jones,

After the Small Pox

Mary Leapor,

Dorinda at Her Glass

Mira’s Picture

Mark Akenside,

The Pleasures of Imagination

, 1:271–387

Robert Burns,

To a Louse

Anna Seward,

Sonnet. To the Poppy

3 LOVE AND COURTSHIP

Sarah Fyge Egerton,

To One who said I must not Love

Anne Finch,

A Sigh

Matthew Prior,

The Lady’s Looking-Glass

Alexander Pope,

Eloisa to Abelard

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,

Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman

The Lover: A Ballad

Aaron Hill,

Whitehall Stairs

Richard Savage,

Unconstant

Martha Fowke,

The Innocent Inconstant

A Letter to my Love

James Thomson,

Spring

, 582–630, 983–1112

Sarah Dixon,

Strephon to the River

The Return’d Heart

From a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe

Lines occasion’d by the Burning of some Letters