English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 9

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AMBROSE PHILIPS TO MISS CHARLOTTE PULTENEY, IN HER MOTHER'S ARMS (1725)

JOHN DYER GRONGAR HILL (1726)

GEORGE BERKELEY VERSES ON THE PROSPECT OF PLANTING ARTS AND LEARNING IN AMERICA (WR. c. 1726; PUBL. 1752)

JAMES THOMSON THE SEASONS (1726-30) WINTER, ll. 223-358 SUMMER, ll. 1630-1645 SPRING, ll. 1-113, 846-876 AUTUMN, ll. 950-1003 A HYMN RULE, BRITANNIA (1740) THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE (1748), STANZAS 1-11, 20, 57-59

EDWARD YOUNG LOVE OF FAME: SATIRES V-VI (1727-28), SATIRE V, ll. 227-246, 469-484; VI, 393-462 NIGHT-THOUGHTS (1742-45), NIGHT I, ll. 68-90; III, 325-342; IV, 201-233; VII, 253-323

ANONYMOUS THE HAPPY SAVAGE (1732)

SOAME JENYNS AN ESSAY ON VIRTUE (1734), ll. 148-165, 170-183, 189-199

PHILIP DODDRIDGE SURSUM (1735?)

WILLIAM SOMERVILLE THE CHASE (1735), BOOK II, ll. 119-171

HENRY BROOKE UNIVERSAL BEAUTY (1735), BOOK III, ll. 1-8, 325-364; V, 282-297, 330-339, 361-384 PROLOGUE TO GUSTAVUS VASA (1739) CONRADE, A FRAGMENT (WR. 1743?, PUBL. 1778), ll. 1-26

MATTHEW GREEN THE SPLEEN (1737), ll. 89-110, 624-642

WILLIAM SHENSTONE THE SCHOOLMISTRESS (1737), STANZAS 6, 8, 18-20, 23, 28 WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY (1764)

JONATHAN SWIFT THE BEASTS' CONFESSION (1738), ll. 1-128, 197-220 VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT (1739),