Includes poems by:
Joseph Addison
Mark Akenside
John Armstrong
Robert Blair
Robert Bloomfield
William Broome
Isaac Hawkins Browne
Richard Owen Cambridge
James Cawthorn (2 poems)
Henry Carey
Thomas Chatterton
William Cowper
George Crabbe (2 poems)
John Cunningham (2 poems)
Erasmus Darwin
Robert Dodsley
John Dyer (2 poems)
David Garrick
John Gay (3 poems)
Oliver Goldsmith
James Hurdis (2 poems)
Soame Jenyns (6 poems)
Samuel Johnson
William King
John Langhorne
Robert Lloyd (3 poems)
Lord George Lyttelton
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (3 poems)
Edward Moore
Thomas Parnell
Cristopher Pitt
Alexander Pope "The Rape of the Lock" and 5 other poems
Nicholas Rowe
John Scott
William Somerville (3 poems)
Jonathan Swift (2 poems)
Thomas Tickell
Isaac Watts
Thomas Wharton
William Whitehead (4 poems)
Edward Young (2 poems)
….. and many others