The complete verse of the eighteenth-century poet of Pity, Fear and Evening, with a memoir of his short, troubled life and Sir Egerton Brydges’s essay on his genius. It opens with the four Oriental Eclogues, from Selim the shepherd to Hassan the camel driver, and goes on to the odes on the passions, on Mercy and Liberty, and to the elegies.
The slim, influential output of a poet who pointed English verse toward Romanticism. Download the free EPUB.