Ernest Bernbaum’s anthology runs through the poetry of the eighteenth century in unbowdlerized texts and modern spelling, from Pomfret, Defoe, Addison, Prior, Mandeville and Isaac Watts onward through Pope, Thomson’s Castle of Indolence, Shenstone’s Schoolmistress, Gray, Collins and Chatterton, with an introduction that maps the period.
A generous, clean reading text of a century of English verse, for the general reader the editor had in mind. Download the free EPUB.