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Specimens of the Less-Known British Poets

by George Gilfillan

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  1. 1Introductory Essay
  2. 2Advertisement
  3. 3Vere, Storber, &c
  4. 4John Gower
  5. 5John Barbour
  6. 6Andrew Wyntoun
  7. 7Blind Harry
  8. 8James I. of Scotland
  9. 9John the Chaplain — Thomas Occleve
  10. 10John Lydgate
  11. 11William Dunbar
  12. 12Gavin Douglas
  13. 13Skelton
  14. 14Sir David Lyndsay
  15. 15Thomas Tusser
  16. 16George Gascoigne
  17. 17Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst and Earl of Dorset
  18. 18John Harrington
  19. 19Sir Philip Sidney
  20. 20Robert Southwell
  21. 21Thomas Watson
  22. 22Thomas Turberville
  23. 23Second Period. From Spenser to Dryden — Francis Beaumont
  24. 24Sir Walter Raleigh
  25. 25Joshua Sylvester
  26. 26Richard Barnfield
  27. 27Alexander Hume
  28. 28Samuel Daniel
  29. 29Sir John Davies
  30. 30Giles Fletcher
  31. 31John Donne
  32. 32Michael Drayton
  33. 33Edward Fairfax
  34. 34Sir Henry Wotton
  35. 35Richard Corbet
  36. 36Ben Jonson
  37. 37Thomas Randolph
  38. 38Robert Burton
  39. 39Thomas Carew
  40. 40Persuasions to Love
  41. 41Sir John Suckling
  42. 42William Cartwright
  43. 43William Browne
  44. 44William Alexander, Earl of Stirling
  45. 45William Drummond
  46. 46Phineas Fletcher
  47. 47Specimens With Memoirs of the Less-Known British Poets — Epigraph
  48. 48William Habington
  49. 49Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich
  50. 50Richard Lovelace
  51. 51Robert Herrick
  52. 52Sir Richard Fanshawe
  53. 53Abraham Cowley
  54. 54George Wither
  55. 55Sir William Davenant
  56. 56Dr Henry King
  57. 57John Chalkhill
  58. 58Catharine Phillips
  59. 59Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
  60. 60Thomas Stanley
  61. 61Andrew Marvell
  62. 62Izaak Walton
  63. 63John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
  64. 64The Earl of Roscommon
  65. 65Charles Cotton
  66. 66Dr Henry More
  67. 67William Chamberlayne
  68. 68Henry Vaughan
  69. 69Dr Joseph Beaumont
  70. 70Miscellaneous Pieces. From Robert Heath
  71. 71Specimens With Memoirs of the Less-Known British Poets — Epigraph
  72. 72Sir Charles Sedley
  73. 73John Pomfret
  74. 74The Earl of Dorset
  75. 75John Philips
  76. 76Sir Samuel Garth
  77. 77Sir Richard Blackmore
  78. 78Elijah Fenton
  79. 79Thomas Tickell
  80. 80James Hammond
  81. 81Richard Savage
  82. 82Thomas Warton the Elder
  83. 83Jonathan Swift
  84. 84Isaac Watts
  85. 85Ambrose Philips
  86. 86William Hamilton
  87. 87Allan Ramsay
  88. 88Isaac Hawkins Browne
  89. 89William Oldys
  90. 90Robert Lloyd
  91. 91Henry Carey
  92. 92David Mallett
  93. 93James Merrick
  94. 94Dr James Grainger
  95. 95Michael Bruce
  96. 96Christopher Smart
  97. 97Thomas Chatterton
  98. 98Lord Lyttelton
  99. 99John Cunningham
  100. 100Robert Fergusson
  101. 101Dr Walter Harte
  102. 102Edward Lovibond
  103. 103Francis Fawkes
  104. 104John Langhorne
  105. 105Sir William Blackstone
  106. 106John Scott
  107. 107Alexander Ross
  108. 108Richard Glover
  109. 109William Whitehead
  110. 110William Julius Mickle
  111. 111Lord Nugent
  112. 112John Logan
  113. 113Thomas Blacklock
  114. 114Miss Elliot and Mrs Cockburn
  115. 115Sir William Jones
  116. 116Samuel Bishop
  117. 117Susanna Blamire
  118. 118James Macpherson
  119. 119William Mason
  120. 120John Lowe
  121. 121Joseph Warton
  122. 122Miscellaneous

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