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This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 311 pages of information about English Poets of the Eighteenth Century.

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Start of eBook	1
JAMES MACPHERSON	1
INTRODUCTION	3
II. ORTHODOXY AND CLASSICISM ASSAILED (1726-1750)	8
III. THE PROGRESS OF SENTIMENTALISM	12
IV. THE TRIUMPH OF SENTIMENTALISM (1776-1800)	14
ERNEST BERNBAUM	19
ENGLISH POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY	19
THE CHOICE	19
II. HIS FORTUNE AND CHARITY	20
IV. HIS COMPANY	20
VI. HIS PEACEABLE LIFE	21
DANIEL DEFOE	22
MATTHEW PRIOR	25
ISAAC WATTS	28
LADY WINCHILSEA	65
SAMUEL CROXALL	69
THOMAS PARNELL	71
AMBROSE PHILIPS	75
GEORGE BERKELEY	77
A HYMN	83
EDWARD YOUNG	91
SOAME JENYNS	93
WILLIAM SOMERVILLE	94
PROLOGUE TO ‘GUSTAVUS VASA’	96
WILLIAM SHENSTONE	98
CHARLES WESLEY	103
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD	107
JOSEPH WARTON	111
WILLIAM COLLINS	114
THOMAS GRAY	124
SAMUEL JOHNSON	134
JOHN DALTON	137
CHARLES CHURCHILL	138
INTRODUCTION TO SONGS OF INNOCENCE	202

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