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Bibliography

References are often given to cheap paperback reprints of standard works which are otherwise only accessible in large libraries.

Reference works

Annals of English Literature 1745-1950, 2nd edn (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1961). F. W. Bateson and Harrison T. Meserole, A Guide to English and American Literature, 3rd edn (Longman, London, 1976). Samuel Johnson, Dictionary (1755); 1 vol. selection by E. L. McAdam and George Milne (Gollancz, London, 1963). New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, ed. George Watson, vol. 2, 1660-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 1971). Oxford English Dictionary, 12 vols plus supplements. Restoration and 18th-Century Drama, introd. Arthur H. Scouten (Great Writers Library, Macmillan, London and Basingstoke, 1980). Restoration and 18th-Century Prose and Poetry, introd. Pat Rogers (Great Writers Library, Macmillan, London and Basingstoke, 1983).

History

Maurice Ashley, England in the Seventeenth Century, 3rd edn (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1961). D. M. George, England in Transition (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1953). Donald Greene, The Age of Exuberance: Backgrounds to Eighteenth• Century English Literature (Random House, New York, 1970). R. W. Harris, Reason and Nature in the Eighteenth Century (Blandford Press, London, 1968). A. R. Humphreys, The Augustan World, revised edn (Methuen, London, 1964). New Cambridge Modern History, relevant volumes. Oxford History of England, relevant volumes. J. H. Plumb, England in the Eighteenth Century, revised edn (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1963). Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1982). Pat Rogers, The Augustan Vision (Weidenfeld, London, 1974). Pat Rogers (ed.), The Context of English Literature: The Eighteenth Century (Methuen, London, 1978). BIBLIOGRAPHY 577

James Sambrook, The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1700-1789 (Longman, London and New York, 1986). John Summerson, Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830, 5th edn (Pelican History of Art, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1969). G. M. Trevelyan, Illustrated English Social History, vols 2 and 3, (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1964). A. S. Turberville, English Men and Manners in the Eighteenth Century, 2nd edn (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1929). A. S. Turberville (ed.), Johnson's England, 2 vols (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1933). Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530-1790, 4th edn (Pelican History of Art, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1978). Basil Willey, The Seventeenth Century Background (Chatto & Windus, London, 1934). Basil Willey, The Eighteenth Century Background (Chatto & Windus, London, 1940). Kathleen Williams (ed.), Backgrounds to Eighteenth-Century Literature (Chandler, Scranton and London, 1971).

Literary History

John Butt, The Mid-Eighteenth Century, ed. Geoffrey Carnall (Oxford History of English Literature, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1979). Cambridge History of English Literature, vols 8-10 (1911-13). Bonamy Dobree, English Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-1740 (Oxford History of English Literature, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1959). Boris Ford (ed.), From Dryden to Johnson (New Pelican Guide, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1982). Bruce King, Seventeenth-Century English Literature (Macmillan History of Literature, London and Basingstoke, 1982). Roger Lonsdale (ed.), Dryden to Johnson (Sphere, London, 1971). Maximillian E. Novak, Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Mac• millan History of Literature, London and Basingstoke, 1983). George Sherburn and Donald F. Bond, The Restoration and Eighteenth• Century, 2nd edn (Routledge, London; Meredith, USA, 1967). James Sutherland, English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century (Oxford History of English Literature, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1969).

Individual Genres

Poetry

Donald Davie, Purity of Diction in English Verse (Chatto, London, 1952). 578 BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dennis Davison, The Penguin Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse (Harmondsworth, 1973). H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1934). Ian Jack, Augustan Satire (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1952). Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets (modern selections). D. W. Lindsay (ed.), English Poetry 1700-1780 (Dent, London, 1974). Roger Lonsdale, The Poems of Gray, Collins, and Goldsmith (Longman, London, 1969). Roger Lonsdale, New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (Oxford University Press, 1984). Minor Poets of the Eighteenth Century (Dent, London, 1930). Charles Peake (ed.), Poetry of the Landscape and the Night (Arnold, London, 1967). V. de Sola Pinto, Poetry of the Restoration, 1653-1700 (Heinemann, London, 1966). Eric Rothstein, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780 (Routledge, London, 1981). James Sutherland, A Preface to Eighteenth Century Poetry (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1948). There are many authoritative modern texts from Oxford, others include the multi-volume California U. P. Dryden, the Yale Poems on Affairs of State and Methuen's Twickenham Pope (1 vol., 1963).

Fiction

Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction (University of Chicago Press, 1961). F. W. Bradbrook, jane Austen and her Predecessors (Cambridge University Press, 1966). A. D. McKillop, The Early Masters of English Fiction (University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 1956). Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel (Chatto and Windus, London, 1957). Major series include the Wesleyan Fielding, the Oxford English Novels, Everyman, the Penguin English Library, World's Classics.

Drama

F. W. Bateson, English Comic Drama 1700-1750 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1929). F. S. Boas, An Introduction to Eighteenth Century Drama (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1953). M. R. Booth, Revels History of Drama in English, vol. vi, 1750-1880 (1975). Everyman edition, The Beggar's Opera and Other Eighteenth-Century Plays (Dent, London, 1928). John Loftis, Comedy and Society from Congreve to Fielding (Stanford University Press, 1959). BIBLIOGRAPHY 579

John Loftis, Revels History of Drama in English, vol. v, 1660-1750 (1976). Allardyce Nicoll, A History of English Drama, vols 1-3, revised edn (Cambridge University Press, 1952). Covers 1660-1700, 1700-50, 1750-1800. Simon Trussler (ed.), Burlesque Plays ofthe Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, London, 1969).

Criticism and Other Prose

J. W. H. Atkins, English Literary Criticism: 17th & 18th Centuries (Methuen, London, 1951). Scott Elledge (ed.), Eighteenth-Century Critical Essays, 2 vols (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1961). D. W. Jefferson (ed.), Pelican Book of English Prose, vol. 3, Eighteenth• Century Prose, 1700-1780 (Harmondsworth, 1956). Arthur Johnston, Enchanted Ground: The Study of Medieval Romance in the Eighteenth Century (Athlone Press, London, 1964). E. D. Jones (ed.), English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) (Oxford University Press, London, rept. 1963). Lawrence Lipking, The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England (Princeton University Press, 1970). J. E. Spingarn (ed.), Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, 3 vols (1908-9; rept. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1968). Peter Ure (ed.), Pelican Book of English Prose, vol. 2, Seventeenth• Century Prose, 1620-1700 (Harmondsworth, 1956). R. Wellek, The Rise of English Literary History (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1941). R. Wellek, History of Modern Criticism, vol. 1, The Later Eighteenth Century (Cape, London, 1955). W. K. Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, Literary Criticism: A Short History, vol. 2, Neo-Classical Criticism (Routledge, London, 1957).

Readers and Writers

Alexandre Beljame, Men of Letters and the English Public in the Eighteenth Century, 1660-1744 (1881; ed. Bonamy Dobrt!e, Kegan Paul, London, 1948). A. S. Collins, Authorship in the Days ofJohnson (1927). F. A. Mumby and I. Norrie, Publishing and Bookselling, 5th edn (Cape, London, 1974). Victor E. Neuburg, Popular Literature: A History and Guide (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1977). Isabel Rivers (ed.), Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (Leicester University Press, 1982). Pat Rogers, Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture (Methuen, London, 1972); (abridged 1980 as Hacks and Dunces: Pope, Swift and Grub Street). Also other Rogers works above. 580

Index of First Lines

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever 555 All human things are subject to decay 45 As Rochefoucault his maxims drew 147 As some fond virgin, whom her mother's care 230 Auld Reikie! wale o' ilka town 506

But most by numbers judge a poet's song 206

Careful observers may foretell the hour 108 Condemned to hope's delusive mine 368 Corinna, pride of Drury Lane 145

Farewell, too little and too lately known 51 For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry 415 From harmony, from heavenly harmony 52

Good people all, of every sort 449

Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlan ferlie! 547 He sung of God- the mighty source 418 Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can 461 How blessed is he who leads a country life 55

In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin 19 In these deep solitudes and awful cells 232 In vain to me the smiling mornings shine 387 Is there, for honest Poverty 557

Let observation with extensive view 311 Long-expected one and twenty 367

Nothing so true as what you once let fall 236 Now hardly here and there an hackney-coach 108 Now mirk December's dowie face 504 INDEX OF FIRST LINES 581

0 David, highest in the list 420 0 Thou that in the heavens does dwell! 544 0 mortal man, who livest here by toil 293 0 my Luve's like a red, red rose 556 Obscurest night involved the sky 467 Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ 535

'Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!' 394

See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs 208 'Shut, shut the door, good John!' fatigued, I said 244 St Andrews town may look right gawsy 509 Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain 451

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day 390 The earth was made so various, that the mind 465 The groves of Eden, vanished now so long 207 The night was winter in his roughest mood 466 The village life, and every care that reigns 530 Thou knowest my praise of nature most sincere 463 Three poets, in three distant ages born 54 Through all the employments of life 187 'Tis raging noon; and, vertical, the Sun 287 'Twas on a lofty vase's side 388

Were I (who to my cost already am 76 What dire offence from amorous causes springs 209 When chapman billies leave the street 549 When civil fury first grew high 1 When from the pallid sky the Sun descends 290 When lovely woman stoops to folly 450

Ye distant spires, ye antique towers 384 Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease 533 582

Index of Authors

Addison, Joseph 171 Johnson, Samuel 310 Aubrey, John 8 Austen, Jane 571 Lewis, Matthew 5 64

Beckford, William 559 Mackenzie, Henry 502 Boswell, James 488 Macpherson, James 4 70 Bunyan, John 10 Montagu, Lady Mary Burke, Edmund 437 Wortley 256 Burney, Fanny 524 Burns, Robert 544 Pepys, Samuel 67 Butler, Samuel 1 Pope, Alexander 205

Chesterfield, Earl of 279 Reynolds, Sir Joshua 430 Cibber, Colley 166 Richardson, Samuel 269 Congreve, William 156 Rochester, Earl of 76 Cowper, William 463 Crabbe, George 530 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 512 Dampier, William 83 Smart, Christopher 415 Defoe, Daniel 85 Smith, Adam 428 Dryden, John 18 Smollett, Tobias 407 Sprat, Thomas 72 Fergusson, Robert 504 Steele, Sir Richard 171 Fielding, Henry 295 Sterne, Laurence 3 70 Swift, Jonathan 98 Gay, John 187 Gibbon, Edward 474 Thomson, James 287 Goldsmith, Oliver 449 Gray, Thomas 384 Walpole, Horace 401 583

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