CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION
JOHN DRYDEN Mac Flecknoe
CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET To Mr. Edward Howard, on His Plays
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER A Letter from Artemida in the Town to Cloe in the Country
JONATHAN SWIFT A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
The Day of Judgement
ANON The Vicar of Bray
ALEXANDER POPE An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot
SOAME JENYNS The Modern Fine Gentleman
SAMUEL JOHNSON The Vanity of Human Wishes. The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated
CHARLES CHURCHILL The Author
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Retaliation
ROBERT BURNS Holy Willie’s Prayer
Epitaph on Holy Willie
JOHN WOLCOT ("PETER PINDAR")A Poetical and Congratulatory Epistle to James Boswell Esq. on His Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with the Celebrated Doctor Johnson
JOHN COURTENAY A Poetical and Philosophical Essay on the French Revolution Addressed to the Right Hon. Edmund Burke
WILLIAM GIFFORD Epistle to Peter Pindar
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON The Vision of Judgement. By Quevedo Redivivus