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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

by Ernest Bernbaum

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3John Pomfret
  4. 4Daniel Defoe From the True-Born Englishman
  5. 5Joseph Addison From the Campaign
  6. 6Matthew Prior
  7. 7Bernard de Mandeville From the Grumbling Hive; or, Knaves Turned Ho…
  8. 8Isaac Watts
  9. 9Alexander Pope From an Essay on Criticism
  10. 10Lady Winchilsea
  11. 11John Gay From Rural Sports
  12. 12Samuel Croxall From the Vision
  13. 13Thomas Parnell From a Night-Piece on Death
  14. 14Allan Ramsay
  15. 15Ambrose Philips
  16. 16John Dyer
  17. 17George Berkeley
  18. 18James Thomson
  19. 19Edward Young
  20. 20Night-Thoughts
  21. 21Edward Young
  22. 22Anonymous
  23. 23Soame Jenyns
  24. 24Philip Doddridge
  25. 25William Somerville From the Chase
  26. 26Henry Brooke From Universal Beauty
  27. 27Matthew Green From the Spleen
  28. 28William Shenstone From the Schoolmistress
  29. 29Jonathan Swift From the Beasts’ Confession
  30. 30Charles Wesley for Christmas-Day
  31. 31Robert Blair From the Grave
  32. 32William Whitehead From on Ridicule
  33. 33Mark Akenside From the Pleasures of Imagination
  34. 34Joseph Warton From the Enthusiast; or, the Lover of Nature
  35. 35John Gilbert Cooper From the Power of Harmony
  36. 36William Collins
  37. 37Thomas Warton From the Pleasures of Melancholy
  38. 38Thomas Gray
  39. 39Samuel Johnson
  40. 40Richard Jago From the Goldfinches
  41. 41John Dalton
  42. 42Jane Elliot
  43. 43Charles Churchill From the Rosciad
  44. 44James Macpherson
  45. 45Christopher Smart From a Song to David
  46. 46Oliver Goldsmith From the Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society
  47. 47James Beattie From the Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius
  48. 48Lady Anne Lindsay
  49. 49Jean Adams
  50. 50Robert Fergusson
  51. 51Anonymous
  52. 52John Langhorne From the Country Justice
  53. 53Augustus Montagu Toplady
  54. 54John Skinner
  55. 55Thomas Day From the Desolation of America
  56. 56George Crabbe
  57. 57John Newton
  58. 58William Cowper
  59. 59William Lisle Bowles
  60. 60Robert Burns
  61. 61Erasmus Darwin From the Botanic Garden
  62. 62William Blake to Winter
  63. 63Introduction to Songs of Innocence
  64. 64George Canning
  65. 65Carolina, Lady Nairne

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