Book description
CONTENTS:
Introduction
John Pomfret The Choice
John Philips The Splendid Shilling
Isaac Watts The Day of Judgement
Ambrose Philips To the Earl of Dorset
John Gay Trivia
Thomas Parnell A Night-Piece on Death
Matthew Prior Alma
Allan Ramsay Lucky Spense’s Last Advice
John Dyer Grongar Hill
Richard Savage The Bastard
Edward Young Of Life, Death and Immortality
William Shenstone The Schoolmistress
John Byron A Dialogue between Sir John Jobson and Harry Homespun
James Macpherson Oithona
Charles Churchill The Rosciad
Christopher Smart A Song to David
John Cunningham Newcastle Beer
Mark Akenside The Pleasures of the Imagination, Book IV
Thomas Chatterton An Excelente Balade of Charitie
Robert Fergusson Hallow-fair
John Langhorne The Country Justice, Part II