PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
ENGLISH POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
JOHN POMFRET
DANIEL DEFOE
FROM A HYMN TO THE PILLORY
JOSEPH ADDISON
MATTHEW PRIOR
BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE
ISAAC WATTS
ALEXANDER POPE
LADY WINCHILSEA
JOHN GAY
SAMUEL CROXALL
THOMAS PARNELL
ALLAN RAMSAY
AMBROSE PHILIPS
JOHN DYER
GEORGE BERKELEY
JAMES THOMSON
EDWARD YOUNG
NIGHT-THOUGHTS
ANONYMOUS
SOAME JENYNS
PHILIP DODDRIDGE
WILLIAM SOMERVILLE
HENRY BROOKE
MATTHEW GREEN
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY
JONATHAN SWIFT
CHARLES WESLEY
ROBERT BLAIR
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD
MARK AKENSIDE
JOSEPH WARTON
JOHN GILBERT COOPER
WILLIAM COLLINS
THOMAS WARTON
THOMAS GRAY
SAMUEL JOHNSON
RICHARD JAGO
JOHN DALTON
JANE ELLIOT
CHARLES CHURCHILL
FROM THE GHOST
JAMES MACPHERSON
FROM THE SONGS OF SELMA
[THE LAST WORDS OF OSSIAN]
CHRISTOPHER SMART
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
JAMES BEATTIE
LADY ANNE LINDSAY
JEAN ADAMS
ROBERT FERGUSSON
JOHN LANGHORNE
AUGUSTUS MONTAGU TOPLADY
JOHN SKINNER
THOMAS CHATTERTON
THOMAS DAY
GEORGE CRABBE
JOHN NEWTON
WILLIAM COWPER
WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES
ROBERT BURNS
ERASMUS DARWIN
WILLIAM BLAKE
GEORGE CANNING
CAROLINA, LADY NAIRNE
GLOSSARY
