A stylish reissue of Roger Lonsdale's widely praised anthology of 18th-century poetry: no previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. Cover -- Contents -- Introduction...
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A stylish reissue of Roger Lonsdale's widely praised anthology of 18th-century poetry: no previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- JOHN POMFRET (1667-1702) -- 1. The Choice -- THOMAS D'URFEY (1653-1723) -- 2. Dialogue, between Crab and Gillian -- JOHN PHILIPS (1676-1709) -- 3. from The Splendid Shilling -- 4. from Blenheim -- JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745) -- 5. The Humble Petition of Frances Harris -- 6. Baucis and Philemon -- 7. A Description of the Morning -- 8. A Description of a City Shower -- 9. In Sickness -- 10. To Stella, March 13, 1723-4 -- 11. Stella's Birthday, 1725 -- 12. A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed -- 13. The Day of Judgement -- 14. Verses on the Death of Dr.Swift -- DANIEL DEFOE (1660-1731) -- 15. from Reformation of Manners -- LAWRENCE SPOONER (fl. 1703) -- 16. from A Looking-Glass for Smokers -- LADY MARY CHUDLEIGH (1656-1710) -- 17. To the Ladies -- SARAH FYGE EGERTON (1670-1723) -- 18. The Emulation -- WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670-1729) -- 19. A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret -- 20. Song -- 21. Song -- 22. Doris -- JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719) -- 23. A Letter from Italy -- 24. Ode -- 25. Song -- MATTHEW PRIOR (1664-1721) -- 26. To a Child of Quality of Five Years Old -- 27. A Simile -- 28. An Ode -- 29. A Dutch Proverb -- 30. from Solomon on the Vanity of the World -- 31. Jinny the Just -- 32. Daphne and Apollo -- 33. The Lady who Offers her Looking-Glass to Venus -- 34. A Better Answer to Cloe Jealous -- 35. A True Maid -- 36. A Reasonable Affliction -- 37. from Alma: or, The Progress of the Mind -- 38. A Letter to the Honourable Lady Miss Margaret Cavendish-Holies-Harley -- ANONYMOUS -- 39. Ignotum per Ignatius, or a Furious Hodge-Podge of Nonsense -- EDWARD WARD (1667-1731) -- 40. from A Journey to H[e]ll -- 41. Dialogue between a Squeamish Cotting Mechanic and his Sluttish Wife, in the Kitchen -- 42. The Extravagant Drunkard's Wish -- ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748) -- 43. Few Happy Matches.
