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