English Poets of the Eighteenth Century eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 437 pages of information about English Poets of the Eighteenth Century.

English Poets of the Eighteenth Century eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 437 pages of information about English Poets of the Eighteenth Century.

JAMES MACPHERSON

  “TranslationsFrom Ossian
   Fingal, an epic poem (1762), book VI, Sec.Sec. 10-14
   The songs of Selma (1762), Sec.Sec. 4-8, 20-21

Christopher smart
  A song to David (1763), ll. 451-516

Oliver Goldsmith
  the traveller (1764), ll. 51-64, 239-280, 423-438
  The deserted village (1770)
  retaliation (1774), ll. 29-42, 61-78, 93-124, 137-146

James Beattie
  the minstrel, book I (1771), stanzas 4-5, 16, 22, 32-33, 52-55

Lady Anne Lindsay
  auld robin gray (WR. 1771)

Jean Adams
  there’s nae luck about the house (c. 1771)

Robert Fergusson
  the Daft days (1772)

Anonymous
  absence (c. 1773?)

John Langhorne
  the country justice, part I (1774), ll. 132-165

Augustus montagu TOPLADY
  rock of ages (1775)

John Skinner
  Tullochgorum (1776)

Thomas Chatterton
  songs from AELLA (1777)
      the boddynge flourettes bloshes atte the lyghte
      O, synge untoe mie roundelaie
  an EXCELENTE BALADE of Charitie

Thomas day
  this desolation of America (1777), ll. 29-53, 279-299,
      328-335, 440-458, 489-501

George Crabbe
  the library (1781), ll. 1-12, 99-110, 127-134,
    And A commonly omitted passage following l. 594
  The village (1783), book I, ll. 1-78, 109-317; II, 63-100

John Newton
  A vision of life in death (1779?)

William Cowper
  table talk (1782), ll. 716-739
  Conversation (1782), ll. 119-162
  To A young lady (1782)
  the shrubbery (1782)
  the task (1785), book I, ll. 141-180; II, 1-47, 206-254;
      III, 108-l33; iv, 1-41; V, 379-445; VI, 56-117, 560-580
  on the receipt of my mother’s picture (1798)
  to Mary (WR. c. 1795, PUBL. 1803)
  The castaway (WR. c. 1799, PUBL. 1803)

William Lisle Bowles
  evening (1789)
  Dover cliffs (1789)

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