CONTENTS
Preface ...... VII
I. Ars Poetica
Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism (Part I) ...... 1 Jonathan Swift: On Poetry: A Rapsody ...... 7
n. Pastoral and Georgic Traditions Alexander Pope: Spring (The First Pastoral)...... 22
John Gay: Saturday or The Flights (from The Shepherd’s Week) .... 26 Jonathan Swift: A Description of a City Shower ...... 29 Jonathan Swift: Strephon and Chloe ...... 31 James Thomson: Winter. A Poem...... 40
III. The Mock-Heroic Poem
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock ...... 53
IV. Satires
Daniel Defoe: The True-Born Englishman - A Satyr (Introduction) .. 76 Jonathan Swift: A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous Ge¬ neral ...... 78 Jonathan Swift: The Beasts Confession to the Priest...... 79 Alexander Pope: Fragment of a Satire...... 85 Alexander Pope: The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated ...... 87 Anonymous: The Vicar of Bray...... 91 Samuel Johnson: London...... 93
V. Songs and Ballads
William Congreve: A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret...... 102 William Congreve: Song ...... 102 William Congreve: Song ...... 103 Anne Countess of Winchilsea: A Song...... 103 Matthew Prior: Cupid Mistaken...... 103 Matthew Prior: To Phillis ...... 104
V Matthew Prior: ’Since we your husband daily see’...... 105 Matthew Prior: [Answer to Cloe Jealous]...... 105 Thomas Parnell: Song...... 106 John Gay: A Ballad...... 107 John Gay: Sweet William’s Farewell to Black-Ey’d Susan...... 108 John Gay: Newgate’s Garland...... 110 Thomas Tickell: Colin and Lucy...... 112 Henry Carey: The Ballad of Sally in our Alley...... 114 Anonymous: A New Song Entitled the Warming Pan ..'...... 116
VI. Memorial Verse Matthew Prior: Jinny the Just...... 118 Alexander Pope: Epitaph on Charles Earl of Dorset ...... 121 Alexander Pope: Epitaph on Sir William Trumbull...... 122 Richard Savage: Epitaph on a Young Lady...... 122 James Thomson: To the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton...... 123
VII. Hymns Joseph Addison: An Ode...... 129 Isaac Watts: Hymn ...... 130 Isaac Watts: A Cradle Hymn...... 130 Henry Needier: A Vernal Hymn, in Praise of the Creator...... 132
Textual Sources ...... 137 Bibliography...... 139
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