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Abridgment (Calamy), 463 Age of Reason, 423 Absalom and Achitophel (Dryden), 138, 141–2, Agnes de Castro (Behn), 91 180, 190–1, 206 Agriculture (Dodsley), 280 Account of the Life and Writings of Cowley Aikin, Anna Letitia, 314 (Sprat), 431 Akenside, Mark Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr David On Leaving Holland, 310 Brainerd, An (Edwards), 465 On Lyric Poetry, 310 Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa, Pleasures of Imagination, 302–3 An (Falconbridge), 734–5 Alarme to Unconverted Sinners (Alleine), 456 Acis and Galatea (Handel), 435 Albion and Albanius (Dryden), 120, 434 Act of Uniformity of 1662, 446 Alchemist, The (Jonson), 327 Act of Union (1707), 260, 278 Alcibiades (Otway), 117 Adams, John Quincy, 774 Aldrich, Henry, 48 Addison, Joseph, 175 Alexander, William, 381 advice poems by, 161 Alexander’s Feast (Dryden), 435 on country public houses, 72 Alfred (Blackmore), 202 on Gothic literature, 683 Algarotti, Francesco, 415 on literary criticism, 482, 485–7 Alleine, Joseph, 456 on old English ballads, 612 Allestree, Richard, 456 periodical essays by, 405–6, 538–9 All for Love (Dryden), 114, 150 political pamphlets by, 557 Allusion to Horace, An (Rochester), 45 travel narratives, 710–12 Alma, or the Progress of the Mind (Prior), 205 works almanacs, 70–1 The Campaign, 184 Ambitious Statesman, The (Crowne), 118 Cato, 120, 328 Amelia (Henry Fielding), 32 Essay on Virgil’s Georgics, 194 American Revolution, 519–20 The Pleasures of Imagination, 405–6 Ames, Richard, 190 Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry, Anacreon, 200 The (Dennis), 479 Analogy of Divine Wisdom (Barton), 397 Adventurer (Johnson), 544 Analogy of Religion, The (Butler), 398–9, 410, Adventures of a Bank-Note, The (Bridges), 573 792 Adventures of Five Hours, The (Tuke), 123 Anatomy of Atheism, An (Dawes), 196 advice and conduct books, 69–70 Ancient and Modern Learning (Temple), 48 Advice to a Young Student (Waterland), 453 Anderson, Robert Aeneas, 153 Epistle to Burns, 359–61 Aeneid, The, 201 Memoir, 358–9 Aeneis (Dryden), 147 Andrews, Joseph, 816 aesthetics, 487–8, 812 Annales Rerum Anglicarum (Camden), 366 Age of Louis XIV, 433 Annus Mirabilis (Dryden), 136–8, 151

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anonymity in poetry, 173–4 Aubin, Penelope, 99 Anson, George, 729 auction, 18 answer poem, 40 audience (theatre), 336–7 Anti-Pamela (Haywood), 102 Augustan writing, 503 Apollo and Daphne (Rich), 318 cultural crises in, 515 Apology, The (Churchill), 293–4 England in, 507 Apology for Poetrie (Sidney), 472 English commerce in, 504, 510–11 Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (Cibber), Georgic commerce in, 518 128, 662–4 translatio imperii in, 516–17 apprentice’s guide, 70 Aureng Zebe (Dryden), 114, 206 aquatint, 28 Austen, Jane, 673, 745 Architecture of Humanism, The: A Study in the authors and authorship, 37–60 History of Taste (Scott), 675–6 changing world of, 42–4 Armstrong, John clubs, 49–52 The Art of Preserving Health, 196, 283 coffee houses and the public sphere, 52–5 The Oeconomy of Love, 282–3 collaborations, 40–1 Arne, Thomas Augustine, 332 literary circles, 44–9 May Day, 332 manuscript and print cultures, 55–60 TheVillage Opera, 332 sale of manuscripts to booksellers, 33–4 Ars Poetica (Horace), 196, 692 social dimension of writing, 38–42 Artaxerxes (Arne), 332 Author’s Farce, The (Henry Fielding), 65, 80, Arte of English Poesie (Puttenham), 472 131, 320 Art of Cookery, The (King), 196 Authorship in the Days of Johnson (Collins), 43 Art of Dancing, The (Jenyns), 196 autobiographies, 649–72 Art of Dress, The (Breval), 196 characteristics of, 654–5 Art of English Poetry (Bysshe), 472 definition of, 654 Art of Life, The (Miller), 196 vs. diaries, 654–8 Art of Politicks, The (Bramstone), 196 and history, 373–4 Art of Preaching, The (Dodsley), 196 lives and deaths in, 669–72 Art of Preserving Health, The (Armstrong), 196, modesties and vanities in, 662–4 283 origins and trajectories, 650–4 Art of Printing, The (Grierson), 196 singularities and multiplicities in, 658–62 arts in poetry, 203 solitudes and sociabilities in, 664–9 Arulia; or the Victim of Sensibility, 573, 574 AVindication of the Rights of Woman Assignation, The: A Sentimental Novel, 588 (Wollstonecraft), 574 Assignation, The (Dryden), 122 Ayloffe, John, 190 Astell, Mary, 414 Reflections on Marriage, 415 Bacon, Francis Serious Proposal to the Ladies, 94 divine philosophy, 396 Astley, Philip, 82 Historie of the Reign of Henry VII, 366 Astraea Redux (Dryden), 134 Baillie, Joanna, 214 astrological almanacs, 71 Bailyn, Bernard, 506 Atheist, The (Otway), 122 Baker, Henry, 195 Athenae Oxonienses (Wood), 463 ballad operas, 130, 318–19, 330 Athenian Mercury (Dunton), 252, 529 ballads, 72–5, 161, 167 content and style, 529–30 Banks, John, 118 critics of, 530–1 Bannerman, Anne, 214 dependence on coffee houses and post Barbauld, Anna Laetitia office, 529 domestic poem by, 211 female readership, 530 on Elizabeth Singer Rowe, 213 Atlas Maritimus & Commercialis (Defoe), 730–1 on literary criticism, 496–7 Atterbury, Francis, 48 odes by, 314 attributions, 173–4 retirement poems by, 231

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works The Fair Vow-Breaker, 91 The British Novelists, 496–7 The History of the Nun, 91 Washing Day, 216 Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Barber, Mary, 176 Sister, 88–90 epilogues by, 226 TheLuckey Chance, 129 To Mrs Strangeways Homer, 215 Oroonoko: Or the Royal Slave, 91, 119, 576, publication of poems by, 211 594, 741–2 Barclay, Alexander, 425 The Rover, 123, 128 baroque tragedy, 112–20 Beljame, Alexander, 43 Barrett, Eaton Stannard, 574 Bennet, John, 280 Barthel´ emon,´ François-Hippolyte, 331 Bentham, Edward, 453 Barton, Richard, 397 Bentley, Richard, 48 Baskerville, John, 28 Berenice (Racine), 117 Bason, The (Coffey), 195 Berkeley, Bishop George, 175, 177, Battle of the Books, The (Swift), 237, 403 401–2 Baxter, Richard Bernbaum, Ernest, 324 A Christian Directory, 457–8 Betsy Thoughtless (Haywood), 755–8 Breviate of the Life of Margaret Baxter, 461 Bickerstaffe, Isaac, 331–2 A Call to the Unconverted, 456, 457–8 Lionel and Clarissa, 332 A Christian Directory, 456 Love in a Village, 331–2 ThePoor Man’s Family Book, 456, 457 The Maid of the Mill, 332 Bayly, Lewis, 455 Bickerstaff Papers, The (Swift), 71 Baynard, Edward, 195 biographies and memoirs, 369 Beadle, John, 651–2 Birch, Thomas, 463 Beattie, James Birkhead, Edith, 676 The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius, Birth of the Squire, The; An Eclogue (Gay), 304–5, 351–2 179 use of Scottish language by, 348 Blackmore, Richard Beau Defeated, The (Pix), 129 Alfred, 202 Beauties of Enfield, The (Baker), 195 Job, 202 Beauties of Sterne, The, 596 Prince Arthur, 202 beauty, philosophy of, 404–5 Satyr against Wit, 188 Beaux’ Stratagem, The (Farquhar), 127, 323 Blackwell, Thomas, 604 Beckford, William, 676 An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Bee, The (Goldsmith), 545 Homer, 488, 604 Beggar’s Opera, The (Gay), 74 Letters Concerning Mythology, 620 as first ballad opera, 130 Blair, Hugh origin of, 51 Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, political satire in, 250 496 songs in, 330, 435 on eloquence, 771 Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement, on history of manners, 380 The (Phelps), 803 Blake, William, 68, 620–1 Behn, Aphra, 87–8 Blamire, Susanna, 211 on Bernard Fontenelle, 416–17 authorship, 357–8 comedies by, 128–9 odes by, 223 epistles, 39 poetry of, 210 on literary criticism, 474 blank verse, 165, 167, 299–300 novels of amorous intrigue by, 90–1 Blasphemy Act of 1698, 447 satires by, 189 Bleinheim (Philips), 184 works ‘Bluestockings,’ 750 Agnes de Castro, 91 Boadicea, Queen of Britain (Hopkins), 118 The Dutch Lover, 474 Boileau-Despreaux,´ Nicolas The Fair Jilt, 91 on genres, 178, 179

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Boileau-Despreaux,´ Nicolas (cont.) Bridges, Thomas, 573 works Brief Lives (Aubrey), 159 Le Lutrin, 425 Briscoe, Sophia, 586 Reflexions´ critiques, 427 Britannia (Camden), 480 Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount, Henry St John, Britannia (Ogilby), 721 368, 378, 560–1 British America, 498–523 Bolingbroke and his Circle (Kramnick), 499 Augustan writings on, 503 Book of Common Prayer, 446 Country ideology, 502–3 bookseller-publishers, 25 Country opposition, 499 capital requirements, 29–30 and Excise Crisis of 1973, 502 determinants of profits, 35–6 Georgic commerce in, 505–6 experimentations in book presentation, 27 imperium issue in, 512–14 success of, 20–2 landscape in, 523 booksellers, 19 revolution in, 519–20 acquisition of manuscripts from authors, source of English oppression, 506 33–4 translatio imperii in, 517–18 commercial advertising, 31 British Novelists, The (Barbauld), 496–7 contracting out to printers, 19–20 British Princes, The (Howard), 45 credit terms, 33 broadsides, 70–5 Irish piracies and Scottish reprints, 24–5 Brome, Alexander, 203 marketing of poetry, 161, 169–70, 202–3 Brooke, Frances reprinting of classic works, 24 The History of Emily Montague, 746, 766–7 risks in financing publications, 22–3 Lady Julia Mandeville, 588, 592 sales of open market publications, 18–19 Letters from Lady Juliet Catesby, 576 subscription publishing, 34–5 Brooke, Henry trade discounts, 32–3 The Fool of Quality, 587, 592 bookselling. See publishing and bookselling Universal Beauty, 196 book trade, 35 Brothers Club, 50, 51 commodification of literature in, 36 Brougham, Henry Lord, 779 growth of, 15–16 Brown, Marshall, 764, 804–6 Boswell, James Bruce, James, 737 travel narratives, 713–14 Bruner, Jerome, 654 works Bruss, Elizabeth, 654 Curious Productions, 68 Brutus (Jacob), 202 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 381 Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of, The Life of Samuel Johnson, 66, 498, 666 44–5 writing style, 665–9 Budgell, Eustace, 540 Bouhours, Dominique, 426 Bunyan, John Bowles, William Lisle, 315 autobiographical writing of, 461, 656–7 Boyle, Charles, 48 readership, 176 Boyle, Roger, 114 social life, 38 Boyle, Sir Robert, 175 works, 458 Bracegirdle, Anne, 119 Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 461, Brady, Nicholas, 469 656–7 Bramston, James, 196 The Life and Death of Mr Badman, 457 Brereton, Jane The Pilgrim’s Progress, 458, 459, 461 epistle by, 217–18 Burke, Edmund friendship poems by, 229, 230 eloquence of, 768–93 publication of poems by, 211 allusions in, 790–1 retirement poems by, 231 education, 770 Breval, J. D., 196 and literary skills, 785–6 Breviate of the Life of Margaret Baxter, A satires in, 791–2 (Baxter), 461 Enlightenment writings, 444

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on Gothic literature, 691 Butt, John, 800 political pamphlets by, 565–6, 567–9, 776 Butterfield, Herbert, 398 printed letters, 777–8 Byng, John, 707 procedure of analogy, 792–3 Byrd, William, 513–14 on Samuel Johnson, 500 Byron, Harriet, 482 speeches, 776–7 Bysshe, Edward, 472 audience, 774–6 British polity, 771 Calamy, Edmund, 463 on conciliation with American colonies, Call to the Unconverted, A (Baxter), 456, 457 522, 772–3 Camden, William impeachment of Warren Hastings, 770–1 Annales Rerum Anglicarum, 366 loco-descriptive poetry in, 788–90 Britannia, 480 prospect view, 787 Campaign, The (Addison), 184 publication of, 777 Campbell, George, 392–3, 773–4, 779 on tragedy as a political genre, 786 Candide (Voltaire), 441–2 travel narratives, 732 Canetti, Elias, 699 works Canning, George, 574 On Conciliation with the Colonies, 522 Canterbury Tales, The (Tyrwhitt), 495 Letters on a Regicide Peace, 789 Careless Husband, The (Cibber), 327 APhilosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Carey, Henry, 330 Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 487, Carlyle, Thomas, 369 813 Carolaides (Howard), 201 Reflections on the Revolution in France, 551–2, Carter, Elizabeth 567–9, 785, 786–7 education of, 219 Speech on American Taxation, 777 poems by, 229 Thoughts on the Cause of the Present publication of poems by, 211 Discontents, 776, 777 translations, 414 burlesques, 320 use of dialogue by, 415–16 burlettas, 330–1 Castle of Andalusia, The (O’Keefe), 333 Burnet, Gilbert Castle of Indolence, The (Thomson), 348 History of His Own Time, 372–3 Castle of Otranto, The (Walpole), 495, 673–4, History of My Own Times, 253 701, 704–5 History of the Reformation of the Church of Catholics, 447 England, 372–3 Cato (Addison), 120, 328 Burnet, Thomas, 399–400 Cato’s Letters, 559–60 Burnett, James, 407 Cavalier poets, 176 Burney, Frances, 34, 665–9, 751, 761–3 Cavendish, Margaret, 176 Burns, Robert, 340–2 autobiographical writing of, 649–50, admiration outside of Scotland, 361 669–70 alternative perspective from, 342 on literary criticism, 476 criticisms in subsequent centuries, 349 writing style of, 659–60 influence of, 359–61 Cecil, William, 114 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 345 censorship, 317, 321–2 preference for natural composition, Centlivre, Susanna, 129, 323 341–2 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 688 use of metaphor by, 345 Chambers, Sir William, 729–30 use of Scottish language by, 344–6, 348–9 Cyclopedia, 443 Bussy D’Ambois (Chapman), 110 Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, 729–30 Busy Body, The (Centlivre), 129 Chandler, Mary Butler, Joseph, 453 The Description of Bath, 195 TheAnalogy of Religion, 398–9, 410, 792 poems by, 211 Butler, Samuel, 44, 166 publication of poems by, 211 Hudibras, 166, 188 changeable sceneries, 335–6

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chapbooks, 64 Circuit of Apollo (Finch), 226–7 for adults, 68 Citizen of the Word, The (Goldsmith), 546–7 crime stories in, 66 Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud), 91 heroic adventures and romances, 64–5 civil wars, 178, 278 history and biography in, 66 Clandestine Marriage, The (Garrick), 325 jestbooks, 65–6 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 44, 369–72 religious publications, 66–7 Clarissa (Richardson), 582–6, 705 songbooks, 65 Clarke, Charlotte, 128 Chapman, George, 110 Clarke, Samuel, 452–3 chapmen, 18 Cleomenes (Dryden), 41 Chapone, Hester, 211, 381 Clifford, Martin, 44 Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions and clubs, 49–52 Times (Shaftesbury), 404, 578 Cobb, James, 333 Character of a Coffee House, 54 Cockburn, Catherine Trotter Charke, Charlotte, 662–4 poems by, 218–19 Charles II, 423 publication of poems by, 211 Chatterton, Thomas, 616–17 writing style, 221 Cheap Repository of Moral and Religious Tracts coffee houses, 52–5 (More), 66–7 Coffey, Charles, 195, 318–19 Chesterﬁeld, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 635–9 Colemira: A Culinary Eclogue (Shenstone), 195 children’s books, 67–8 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 315 Chinese shadows, 82 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People chinoiserie, 729–30 called Methodists, A (Wesley), 468 Christ Church wits, 48–9, 51 Collection of Old Ballads, A, 612 Christian Behaviour,(Baxter), 458 Collection of Poems, For and Against Christian Directory, A (Baxter), 456, 457–8 Dr Sacheverel, 170 Christian Library, A (Wesley), 455 Collection of Psalms and Hymns, A (Wesley), 468 Christmas Tale, A (Garrick), 332 Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments Chudleigh, Mary, 174 (Richardson), 583 To Eugenia. On her Pastoral, 229 Collier, Jeremy, 121, 478 poems by, 210 AShortView of the Immorality and Churchill, Charles, 293–7 Profaneness of the English Stage, 478 The Apology, 293–4 Collier, Mary, 213, 218–19 The Ghost, 294–5 Collins, A. S. Gotham, 296–7 Authorship in the Days of Johnson, 43 Night, 294 Collins, William TheProphecy of Famine, 293 odes by, 312, 602–3 TheRosciad, 293 Persian Eclogues, 272–3 Church of England, 445–6 Collyer, Mary, 576 danger of enthusiasm, 449 Colman, George, 210 and Evangelical Revival, 447–8 Colonel Jack (Defoe), 576 high churchmen, 446 comedies, 121–31 latitudinarians, 445 in 1730s, 319–20 nonconformists, 446–7 dominant forms of, 323–4 practical books, 455–6 in mid and late eighteenth century, 323–8 and Roman Catholics, 447 sentimental comedies, 317 Cibber, Colley, 662–4 types of, 323 Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, 128, 662–4 comic dramatists, 324–5 The Careless Husband, 327 comic operas, 331–2 Love’s Last Shift, 128 Common Sense (Paine), 517, 540, 561, 784 The Provok’d Husband, 127, 323 Compleat History of England (Smollett), 366, 376 Cicero, 769–70 Compleat Servant-Maid, The; or The Young Cid, le, 425 Maiden’s Tutor (Wolley), 69

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Complete View of the Manners, Customs, Arms, court poets, 176, 203 Habits etc. of the Inhabitants of England Covent Garden Journal, 540–1 (Strutt), 381 Covent Garden Theatre, 316–17, 322 Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage Cowley, Abraham, 44, 171, 199 (Johnson), 500 Cowper, William, 297–9 Comus (Milton), 330 hymn books by, 470 Concannen, Matthew, 195 works; 285, 307–9 Conduct of the Allies (Swift), 254, 550, 551, 556–7 Epigram, 298 conger system, 14, 35 TheModern Patriot, 297 Congreve, William, 127 Moral Satires, 297 practice, 176 The Negro’s Complaint, 297–8 works Pity for Poor Africans, 298 The DoubleDealer, 127, 327 Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, 298 Incognita, 494–5 Table-Talk, 298 Love for Love, 127 The Task, 285, 298, 307–9, 467, 603 The Mourning Bride, 119 Yardley Oak, 286 The Old Batchelour, 127 writing style of, 646–8 The Way of the World, 127, 337 Crabbe, George, 306–7 Works, 111 Craftsman, The, 384, 502, 560 Conjectures on Original Composition (Young), Crichton, Alexander, 694 816 Cricket (Dance), 195 Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, The crime stories, 66 (Dryden), 114 Crispe, Henry, 184 Conscious Lovers, The (Steele), 128, 320, 323, Critic, The (Sheridan), 85, 326 394 Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian Considerations on the Present German War, 552, (Blair), 496 563 Critical History of England (Oldmixon), 384 Cook, James, 737–41 criticism. See literary criticism Cooke, Thomas, 176 Critique of Judgment (Kant), 408 Cooper, Anthony Ashley, 404 cross-rhyme, 167 Cooper’s Hill (Denham), 195, 279 Crowne, John, 117–18 copper-plate methods, innovations in, 28–9 The Country Wit, 125 copyrights Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, division in shares, 23 114, 117–18 laws, 23–4 Crumble-Hall (Leapor), 189, 217, 292 value of, 23 Cry, The (Fielding and Collier), 581–2 Corneille, Pierre, 424 Cumberland, Richard, 327 Coste, Pierre, 430 The Jew, 327 Country Gentleman, The (Buckingham and TheWest Indian, 327 Howard), 45 Curious Productions (Boswell), 68 Country Gentlemen of England, To the, Curse of Sentiment, The (Dodd), 573, 576 (Akenside), 310 Cyclopedia (Chambers), 443 country-house poem, 279 Cyder (Philips), 49, 278–9 Country ideology, 499–500 Cymon (Garrick), 332 celebration of trade in, 505 and fate of traditional society, 502–3 Dacier, Andre,´ 426 and National Debt, 507–10 Daily Courant, 527 Country Wife, The (Wycherley), 124 Dampier, William, 731 Country Wit, The (Crowne), 125 Dance, James, 195 couplets, 166–7, 300 Darwall, Mary Whateley, 213 Course on Lectures on Principal Subjects in domestic poems by, 215 Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity friendship poems by, 230 (Doddridge), 453 ThePower of Destiny, 220

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D’Avenant, William, 424 Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian Gondibert, 111, 155 (Crowne), 114, 117–18 The Playhouse to be Let, 130 Devil to Pay, The (Coffey–Motley), 318–19 Davideis (Cowley), 202 devotional literature, 455, 459 David Simple (Sarah Fielding), 592, 751, 752–3 Dialogue on Beauty (Stubbes), 392, 397, 410 Death of Knowledge, The (‘W.C.’), 196 dialogues, 40 decasyllabic couplets, 166 Dialogues of the Dead (Fontenelle), 394 Defoe, Daniel, 87 Diaper, William, 176, 271–2 autobiographical writing of, 650–1 diaries, 649–72 domestic conduct book by, 69 vs. autobiographies, 654–8 historicity of ﬁctions by, 377–8 characteristics of, 654–5 last novel by, 99–100 lives and deaths in, 669–72 periodical essay by, 531–2 modesties and vanities in, 662–4 political pamphlets by, 554–5 origins and trajectories, 650–4 political poems by, 186 singularities and multiplicities in, 658–62 travel narratives, 723–5, 730–1, 742–3 solitudes and sociabilities in, 664–9 works Diary (Pepys), 655–6 Atlas Maritimus & Commercialis, 730–1 Dibdin, Charles, 332 Colonel Jack, 576 The Padlock, 332 Family Instructor, 69 Poor Vulcan, 331 Legion’s Memorial, 554 Dictionary of British and American Women APlanoftheEnglish Commerce, 504 Writers – (Todd), 806 Reformation of Manners, 188 Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson), The Review, 531–2, 555 32, 314, 395, 490 Robinson Crusoe, 650–1, 742–3 didactic poetry, 187–8 Roxana, 99–100 See also poetry ATourThro’ the Whole Island of Great after death of Alexander Pope, Britain, 723–5 299–309 TheTrue-Born Englishman, 186, 480, 554 blank verse, 299–300 as writer-poet, 175 varieties and sizes of, 193–4, 196 Delacour, James, 176 Diderot, Denis, 443 Delicate Distress, The (Grifﬁth), 751 Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), 434 Denham, 195, 279 Digression sur les anciens et les modernes Dennis, John (Fontenelle), 427 on criticism, 478–80 Discorsi (Machiavelli), 116 practice, 175 Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of works Satire, A (Dryden), 153 TheAdvancement and Reformation of Modern Discours sur la nature de l’eglogue´ (Fontenelle), Poetry, 479 261 TheGrounds of Criticism in Poetry, 467, 479 Discovery of New Worlds, A (Fontenelle), The Impartial Critic, 426, 479 416–17 The Usefulness of the Stage, 479 discursive poetry, 299–309 Dent, Arthur, 457 Dispensary, The (Garth), 188, 193–4 Description of Bath, The (Chandler), 195 dissenters, 218 Description of the Morning (Swift), 270 Dissertatio de Carmine Pastorali (Rapin), 261 Deserted Daughter, The (Holcroft), 327 Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (Chambers), Deserted Village, The (Goldsmith), 284–5, 729–30 305–6, 522–3 divine analogy, 397 design, 396–7 divine philosophy, 396, 407 directions of, 403–6 Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language, for the divine analogy in, 397–8 Use of Children (Watts), 67 as hypothesis about order, 402–3 Dixon, Sarah, 176, 211–12, 216–17 masculine beauty in, 400–1 Dodd, Charles, 573, 576

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Doddridge, Philip as theorist and apologist for contemporary Course on Lectures on Principal Subjects in literature, 148–53 Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity, 453 theory of translation, 151, 152–3 Lectures on Preaching, 454–5 translations of Virgil by, 146–8, 151–2, 156 Rise and Progress, 460 works Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Absalom and Achitophel, 138, 141–2, 180, Honorable Col. James Gardiner, 465 190–1, 206 Dodsley, James, 21 Albion and Albanius, 120, 434 Dodsley, Robert, 171 Alexander’s Feast, 435 Agriculture, 280 All for Love, 114, 150 The Art of Peaching, 196 Annus Mirabilis, 136–8, 151 Collection, 226 The Assignation, 122 Dodsley Miscellanies, 171 Astraea Redux, 134 The King and the Milles of Mansﬁeld, 321 Aureng Zebe, 114, 206 poems by, 210 Cleomenes, 41 Dodsley Miscellanies (Dodsley), 171 The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, 114 domestic poetry, 216–18 ADiscourse Concerning the Original and Don Carlos (Otway), 117 Progress of Satire, 153 Donn, Rob, 356 Don Sebastian, 114, 146 Don Sebastian (Dryden), 114, 146 The Duke ofGuise, 139 Double Dealer, The (Congreve), 127, 327 Essay of Dramatic Poesy, 40, 111, 132, 134–5, Douglas, 328 425, 474–6 Douglas, Gavin, 344 An Essay Upon Satyr, 46 Dragon of Wantley, The (Carey-Lampe), 330 An Evening’s Love, 122 Drake, Judith, 414 Examen Poeticum, 41, 477–8 drama. See theatre Fables Ancient and Modern, 142, 155 dramatists, women, 128 Heroic Stanzas, 134, 157 Drapier’s Letters, The (Swift), 245, 558 The Hind and the Panther, 138, 142, 144–5, drolls, 75–6 154 Drury Lane Theatre, 318 TheIndian Emperor, 114 hiring of Henry Fielding, 320 TheIndian Queen, 114 mainpieces, 316–17 The Kind Keeper; or Mr Limberham, 112 one-composer dialogue opera, 332 King Arthur, 120, 434 patent, 321 MacFlecknoe, 138, 139–40, 189, 206 reopening of, 322 Marriage a-la-Mode` , 115, 122, 123 Dryden, John, 132–59 TheMedal; A Satyr against Sedition, 190 comedies by, 122 Oedipus, 139 contributions to English prose, 155–6 Religio Laici, 138, 143–4, 206 criticisms from theatrical rivals, 149–50, Secret Love, 114, 122 476–8 TheState of Innocence, 114 dedications, 58 Sylvae, 41, 151 elegies and odes by, 138 Tyrannic Love, 40, 114 heroic drama by, 149 Works ofVirgil, 34–5, 147 heroic plays and tragedies by, 114–15 Dryden Miscellanies, 171 idioms of art by, 153–9 Dubos, AbbeJ´ ean Baptiste, 426 last years of, 205–6 Duchess of Malﬁ, The (Webster), 118 mastery of irony by, 156–8 Duck, Stephen membership in Royal Society, 431 as poet, 174 opera by, 434 works pastorals by, 262–3 The Shunamite, 347 poetry by, 135–48 TheThresher’s Labour, 274, 277 portrait of, 133 writing style of, 346–7 social world of, 38–9 Duenna, The (Sheridan–Linley), 332–3

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Duffet, Thomas, 130 Emma: or, The Unfortunate Attachment. A Duke of Guise, The (Dryden), 139 Sentimental Novel (Spencer), 589 Duke’s Company, 109, 112 Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle (Smith), 233, Dunciad, The (Pope), 73 765 catalogues of transgressive generation in, Empress of Morocco, The (Settle), 118, 130 77 Englands Helicon, 266–7 redactions of, 189 English history, rewriting of, 480–2 as response to material aestheticism, 250 English literature and thought, 423–44 Dunciad Variorum (Pope), 40, 51 Charles Saint-Evremond and the Dunton, John Huguenot connection, 428–33 Athenian Mercury, 529 competition with French classicism, 424–8 The Life and Errors of John Dunton, 252 operas, 433–6 Durfey, Thomas, 112 Voltaire, 436–44 AFondHusband, 112 English operas, 332–3, 434 Madame Fickle, 125 engraving, innovations in, 28–9 Dutch Lover, The (Behn), 474 Enlightenment, 98, 412, 426 Dyce, Alexander, 212 Enlightenment histories, 383–4 Dyer, John, 176, 281 Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, An TheFleece, 281, 283–4, 504 (Hume), 408, 411–12 Grongar Hill, 195 Enquiry concerning Social Justice, An (Godwin), Ruins ofRome, 515–16 571 Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, An Ecclesiastes, 403 (Hume), 579 Edwards, Jonathan, 465 Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer, An An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend (Blackwell), 488, 604 Mr David Brainerd, 465 Enthusiast, The: Or the Lover of Nature An Extract of the Life of the Late Rev. Mr David (Warton), 273 Brainerd, 465 Entretiens sur la pluralite´ des mondes Edwards, Thomas, 314 (Fontenelle), 416–17 Egerton, Sarah Fyge epics, 200–2 poems by, 210 Epigram (Cowper), 298 as poet, 176 epigrams, 166 writing style of, 221 epilogues, 39–40, 111, 164, 165 Eighteenth-Century English Romantic Poetry Epistles, 151 (Partridge), 803 Epistles of Phalaris, 482 Eighteenth-Century Women Poets (Lonsdale), Epistle to a Lady, An (Leapor), 292 224, 806 Epistle to Artemisia, An (Leapor), 292 eight-syllable couplets, 166 Epistle to Augustus (Pope), 191 Elegiac Sonnets and Other Essays (Smith), 224, Epistle to Bathurst (Pope), 503 231, 315 Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (Pope), 192, 220, 223 elegies, 166 Epistle to Lady Bowyer, An (Jones), 291 Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard (Gray), Epistle to William Hogarth, An (Churchill), 273, 303–4 296 Elements´ de la philosophie de Newton (Voltaire), Epitaph, An (Prior), 182 439 Epsom-Wells (Otway), 122 Elements of Criticism (Kames), 487 Equiano, Olaudah Elinor James’s Advice to the King and Parliament autobiography, 660–2 (James), 73 Interesting Narrative, 521, 735–6 Eliot, T. S., 301 travel narratives, 735–6 Eliza (Blackmore), 202 Errors of Sensibility, The, 573 Ellwood, Thomas, 462 Essai sur l’etudedelalitt´ erature´ (Gibbon), 378 Emblematical Print of the South Sea Scheme Essay concerning Human Understanding, An (Hogarth), 85 (Locke), 451–2

922

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Essay of Dramatic Poesy (Dryden), 132, 134–5, False Count, The (Shadwell), 129 474–6 False Delicacy (Kelly), 326 Essay on Criticism, An (Pope), 483–5 Familiar Letters (Richardson), 69 Essay on Dramatick Poesie (Dryden), 40 Family Instructor, The (Defoe), 69 Essay on Happiness, An (Nugent), 196 family letters, 124 Essay onMan(Pope), 196 Family Secrets (Melmoth), 689 Essay on Pope (Warton), 501 Fane, Francis, 123 Essay on Reason, An (Harte), 196 Fantastic, The: A Structural Approach to a Essay on Taste, An (Gerard), 485 Literary Genre (Todorov), 695–6 Essay on the History of Civil Society (Ferguson), farces, 79–80, 323 367, 380 Farmer, The (O’Keefe), 333 Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope Farquhar, George, 79, 127 (Warton), 489 The Beaux’ Stratagem, 127, 323 Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear The Recruiting Ofﬁcer, 127 (Montagu), 489 TheStage Coach, 79, 323 Essay on Virgil’s Georgics (Addison), 194 Fatal Curiosity (Lillo), 319 Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste Fatal Dowry, The (Massinger), 119 (Alison), 485 Fatal Marriage, The (Southerne), 119, 319 Essay Upon Satyr, An (Dryden and Mulgrave), Fate of Capua, The (Southerne), 120 46 Fate of Villainy, The (Walker), 319 Esther (Handel), 435 Fawcett, Benjamin, 458 Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Feingold, Richard, 504 Times (Brown), 764 Female Advocate, The; A Poem (Barbauld), 211 Etherege, George, 125–6 Female Fire-Ships, The; A Satyr against Whoring Eunomous, or Dialogues concerning the Law and (Ames), 190 Constitution of England (Wynne), 402 Female Prelate, The (Settle), 118 Euphemia (Lennox), 746 Female Quixote, The (Lennox), 753–5 Evangelical Revival, 447–8 Female Spectator (Haywood), 93, 417, 486 Evelina (Burney), 34, 761–3 Female Tatler, The, 536 Evening’s Love, An (Dryden), 122 feminism in novels, 92–4 Evergreen, The: A Collection of Scots Poems Ferguson, Adam (Ramsay), 354, 612 Essay on History of Civil Society, 367, 380 Examen Poeticum (Dryden), 41, 477–8 on Gaelic language, 611–13 Excessive Sensibility, 573 Fergusson, Robert, 344 Excise Crisis of 1793, 502 Fielding, Henry Exclusion crisis, 119, 140–1 farces by, 79 exemplary comedies, 323 on literary criticism, 472 Extract of the Life of the Late Rev. Mr David as one of fathers of English novel, 87 Brainerd, An (Edwards), 465 periodical essays by, 540–1 political satires by, 320, 561–2 Fable of the Bees, The (Mandeville), 510, 578 travel narratives, 708–9 fables, 227–8 works Fables Ancient and Modern (Dryden), 142, 155 Amelia, 32 Faction Detected (Perceval), 552 The Author’s Farce, 65, 80, 131, 320 Fair Jilt, The (Behn), 91 TheHistorical Register, 131, 320, 321 Fair Penitent, The (Rowe), 119, 319 TheIntriguing Chambermaid, 130, 318–19 fairs, 75–7 Joseph Andrews, 102–3 Falconar, Maria, 214 Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, 131, Falconbridge, Alexander, 734–5 320, 331 Fall, The (Thurston), 196 The Lottery, 130 Fall of Bajaset, The (Settle), 76 The MockDoctor, 80, 130 Fall of Mortimer, The, 321 TheModern Husband, 319–20 False Alarm, The (Johnson), 501, 507, 566–7 Pasquin, 131, 320

923

Index

Fielding, Henry (cont.) formula fiction, 91–2, 94–5 Shamela, 102 Fox, George, 462 Tom Jones, 32, 34, 95, 374, 592, 769 Fox, Joseph, 677 Tom Thumb, 320, 331 Free Thinker, 540 The Universal Gallant, 319 Freind, Robert, 48 TheWelsh Opera, 130, 320 French Academy, 425 Fielding, Sarah French classicism, 424–8 The Cry, 581–2 Freud, Sigmund, 91 David Simple, 592, 751, 752–3 Friendship in Fashion (Otway), 122 TheGoverness; or Little Female Academy, 746 friendship poems, 228–30 Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia, 764 as poet, 750–1 Gamester, The (Centilivre), 323 Fiennes, Celia, 721–3 Gamester, The (Moore), 328 Filmer, Robert, 142 Garden and the City, The (Mack), 499 Finch, Anne Garrick, David, 333–5 domestic situations of, 214 acting style, 81–2 fables by, 227–8 works friendship poems by, 228–9 A Christmas Tale, 332 odes and Horatian poems by, 224–5, 227 The Clandestine Marriage, 325 as one of Mary of Modena’s court Cymon, 332 poets, 47 Harlequin’s Invasion, 337 poems by, 212 The Jubilee, 332 publication of poems by, 210 APeep Behind the Curtain, 331 works Garth, Samuel, 188, 193–4 Circuit of Apollo, 226–7 Gassendi, Pierre, 429 Life’s Progress, 211, 224–5 Gay, John, 179, 267–9 Miscellany Poems, 41, 225 The Beggar’s Opera, 51, 74, 130, 250, 330, 435 Nocturnal Reverie, 212 The Birth of the Squire: An Eclogue, 179 The Spleen, 210 Rural Sports, 194 writing style of, 224–7, 231 Shepherd’s Week, 267 Fingal (Macpherson), 610–11 Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of Five Pastoral Eclogues (Warton), 273 London, 179, 194 Flatman, Thomas, 203 The What D’Ye Call It, 50, 80 Fleece, The (Dyer), 281, 283–4, 504 General, The (Boyle), 114 Fletcher, John, 110 General, The (Orrery), 424 TheKnight of the Burning Pestle, 130 genres, 177–8 TheProphetess, 120 ambivalence toward, 178 Valentinian, 120 hierarchy of, 183 folklore, 602–21 and neoclassicism, 179 definition of, 602 in poetry, 179–80 Ossianic poetry, 603–5 Gentleman’s Journal, 56 Fond Husband, A (Durfey), 112 Gentleman’s Magazine, The, 209–10 Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de Gentlewoman’s Companion, The (Wolley), 69 pastorals by, 261–2 Genuine History of the Britons Asserted works (Whitaker), 382 Dialogues of the Dead, 394 George III, 507, 562–3 Digression sur les anciens et les modernes, 427 Georgic commerce, 505–6, 518 Discours sur la nature de l’eglogue´ , 261 Georgic poetry, 260–1 Entretiens sur la pluralite´ des mondes, 416–17 defining text of, 275 Fool of Quality, The (Brooke), 587, 592 founding text of, 274–5 Foote, Samuel, 325 Industrial Revolution in, 283–4 For Children: The Gates of Paradise (Blake), 68 as instructive poetry about work, 194–5 Fordyce, David, 577 pentameter couplets in, 166

924

Index

themes in, 276 concept of sublime in, 690–3 trade and industry in, 280–1 and English poetry, 684–5 variety of topics in, 275 ethnography, 678–9 Georgics (Virgil), 275, 277–8, 279, 281–2 fight-or-flight response to, 698–702 Gerard, Alexander, 485 and Gothic architecture, 682, 689–90 Ghost, The (Churchill), 294–5 in Italian Renaissance, 679–80 Gibbon, Charles, 388–90 literary criticism of, 673–4 Gibbon, Edward aims and methods, 677 autobiography, 671–2 anti-Romantic view, 677–8 travel narratives, 712–13 in early seventeenth century, 680–1 works in early twentieth century, 676–7, 686 Essai sur l’etude´ de la litterature´ , 378 in early late seventeenth and early History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman eighteenth century, 680 Empire, 379, 383 feminist critics, 696–7 Gildon, Charles in Italian Renaissance, 679–80 as poet, 175 medieval history in, 763–4 works myth-making in, 681–2 The Complete Art of Poetry, 179 popularity of, 687–9 New Collection of Poems on Several Occasions, as a repressive cultural phenomenon, 210 705–6 Gilpin, William, 495 solecisms in, 702–3 Glorious Revolution, 505 supernatural in, 693–5 Glover, Richard, 176 themes in, 695–6 Leonidas, 201 Gould, Elija, 519 London: or, the Progress of Commerce, 518–19 The Persistence of Empire, 519 Godwin, William, 571 Gould, Robert, 176 Goff, The (Mathison), 195 The Playhouse, 190 Golden Pippin, The (O’ Hara), 331 ASatyr against Wooing, 190 Goldsmith, Oliver Governess, The; or Little Female Academy (Sarah comedies by, 326 Fielding), 746 periodical essays by, 545–7 Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners poems by, 284–5, 293, 305–6, 522–3 (Bunyan), 461, 656–7 works Grainger, James, 275, 281, 504, 520–1 The Citizen of the World, 546–7 Granville, Mary, 727 The Deserted Village, 284–5, 305–6, 522–3 Gray, Thomas, 289 TheGood-Natur’d Man, 326 elegies and odes by, 303–4, 310–12 The History of England (1777), 376 Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard, 273, History of England in Series of Letters from a 303–4 Nobleman to his Son, 377 as literary critic and historian, 496 Retaliation, 293 pastorals by, 273 She Stoops to Conquer, 324, 326 satires by, 293 The Traveller, 305 sonnets by, 289, 314, 811–12 Gondibert (D’Avenant), 111, 155 Grecian Daughter, The (Murphy), 328 Good-Natur’d Man, The (Goldsmith), 326 Grierson, Constantia, 211 Gordian Knot, The (Griffith), 751 The Art of Printing, 196 Gordon, Thomas, 559–60 practice, 177 Gotham (Churchill), 296–7 Griffith, Elizabeth, 751 Gothic novels, 673–706 TheDelicate Distress, 751 See also novels TheGordian Knot, 751 arousal of readers, 695, 697–8 Grongar Hill (Dyer), 195 authors of, 674 Grounds of Criticism in Poetry, The (Dennis), Britishness of, 684 467, 479 comparison to pornography, 703 Grover, Thomas, 28

925

Index

Gulliver’s Travels (Swift) The History of JemmyandJennyJessamy, basis for, 51 758–9 exile in horseland, 255–6, 257–8 Love in Excess, or, The Fatal Inquiry: a Novel, money and trade in, 254–5 91, 96, 418–19 narrators, 256 The Mercenary Lover, 420–1 payment received by Swift for, 34 as writer-poet, 175 play of words in, 256–7 Hazlitt, William, 780–2 Scriblerian material in, 253 Health, a Poem. Shewing How to Procure, state trials in, 254 Preserve, and Restore It (Baynard), 195 systems satire in, 254–6 Heaney, Seamus, 359 travel narratives in, 743–4 Henley, John, 83–4 values among Houhynmhnms, 248 Henry, Robert, 379 Guthrie, William, 573 Henry and Emma (Prior), 205 Gwynn, Nell, 40 Herbert, George, 17, 468 heroic couplet, 166 Habermas, Jurgen,¨ 52–3, 549 heroic drama, 149 Haggart, Esther, 73 heroic plays, 112–20 Hamilton, Alexander Heroic Stanzas (Dryden), 134, 157 Familiar Epistles, 342–3 Heroides, 233 Itinerarium, 506 Heroine, The (Barrett), 574 Handel, George Frideric, 434–6, 467 Herringman, Henry, 21 Acis and Galatea, 435 Hervey, James, 467 Esther, 435 Hervey, John, 559 Rinaldo, 434 Hesiod, 274, 276 Hands, Elizabeth, 213, 217 Higgons, Bevil, 184 Hanoverians, 249 high churchmen, 446 Hanway, Jonas, 590 Hill, Aaron, 176, 540 Harison, William, 195 Hill, John, 69 Harlequins, 81–2 Hind and the Panther, The (Dryden), 138, 142, Harlequin Shepard (Thurmond), 75 144–5, 154 Harlequin’s Invasion (Garrick), 337 Histoire d’Angleterre (Rapin-Thoyras), 366 Harley, Robert, 177 Histoire de l’Academie´ franc¸aise Harlot’s Progress, A (Hogarth), 86 (Pellison-Fontanier), 431 Harriot Stuart (Lennox), 746 Historical Disquisition on India (Robertson), 367 Harris, Joseph, 195 Historical Register, The (Henry Fielding), 131, Harrison, Susanna, 213 320, 321 Harte, Walter, 176, 196 historical writing, 366 Hastings, Warren, 783 autobiographies, 373–4 Haunted Tower, The (Storace-Cobb), biographies and memoirs, 369 333 narrative, 366–8 Havard, William, 321 novels, 377–8 Haydn, Joseph, 436 reader identiﬁcation with characters in, Haywood, Eliza, 128 375–7 didactic novels by, 755–9 rise of specialist historians, 368 on literary criticism, 486 single-author histories, 366 novels of amorous intrigue by, 91 truth in, 378 periodical essays, 540 Historie of the Reign of Henry VII (Bacon), 366 popular philosophy in novels, 417–20 Histories of Some of the Penitents in the as progenitor of early novels, 414 Magdalen-House, The, 590–1 works History and Fall of Casius Marius, The (Otway), Anti-Pamela, 102 117 Betsy Thoughtless, 755–8 history and literature (1660–1780), 365 Female Spectator, 93, 417, 486 autobiographies, 373–4

926

Index

biographies and memoirs, 369 History of the Nun, The; or, the Fair Vow-Breaker Enlightenment histories, 383–4 (Behn), 91 historical truth in, 378 History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in historical writing, 366 England (Clarendon), 369–72 history of manners, 380–3 History of the Reformation of the Church of narrative histories, 366–8 England (Burnet), 372–3 national history, 382–3 History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V novels, 377–8 (Robertson), 380, 383 reader identiﬁcation with characters, 375–7 History of the Royal Society (Sprat), 431 rise of specialist historians, 368 History of Women from the Earliest Antiquity to single-author histories, 366 the Present Time (Alexander), 381 History and Present State of Virginia, The Hoadly, Benjamin, 324 (Beverley), 514–15 Hogarth, William History of America, The (Robertson), 383 epistle to, 296 History of Britain (Milton), 366 print series by, 85–6 History of Emily Montague, The (Brooke), 746, subscription tickets as works of art, 85 766–7 works History of England, The (1777) (Goldsmith), 376 Emblematical Print of the South Sea Scheme, 85 History of England (1754–62) (Hume), 366, AHarlot’sProgress, 86 375–6, 383, 384 The Idle ’Prentice Executed at Tyburn, 61–3 History of England (1763–83) (Catherine Industry and Idleness, 63, 70, 73 Macaulay), 366, 385–7 Southwark Fair, 76, 78 History of England (1849)(Thomas Babington Holcroft, Thomas Macaulay), 42–3 The Deserted Daughter, 327 History of England from the Revolution to the The Road to Ruin, 327 Present Time, in a Series of Letters (1778) Holland, 430 (Macaulay), 377, 385, 386–7 Holy Living (Taylor), 455–6 History of England in Series of Letters from a Holy War, The, 458 Nobleman to his Son (1764) Home, John, 328 (Goldsmith), 377 Hop-Garden, The (Smart), 275 History of English Drama, – (Nicoll), Hopkins, Charles, 118 317 Horace, 196, 692 History of English Poetry (1774–81)(Warton), Horae Lyricae (Watts), 467, 468 381, 617–18 Horatian epistles, 217–18 History of George Ellison (Scott), 760 Horatian Ode (Marvell), 154 History of Great Britain, Written on a New Plan Howard, Edward, 176, 201 (1771–93) (Henry), 379 The British Princes, 45 History of His Own Time (Burnet), 372 Carolaides, 201 History of Insipids, The (Ayloffe), 190 Howard, Sir Robert, 148 History of Jamaica (Long), 732–3 Howard, Sir Robert, and George Villiers, History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, The 1st Duke of Buckingham (Haywood), 758–9 The Country Gentleman, 45 History of Joseph (Rowe), 201 Hudibras (Butler), 166, 188 History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (Newbery), Hughes, John, 176, 435 67 humane comedies, 323 History of My Own Times (Burnet), 253 Human Happiness. A Poem. Adapted to the History of Scotland (Robertson), 366, 376, 383 Present Times (Jacob), 196 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Hume, David Empire (Gibbon), 379, 383 autobiographical writing, 670 History of the Four Last Years of Queen Anne defence of popular philosophical writing, (Swift), 254 411–12 History of the Life of Thomas Elwood, The on eloquence, 772 (Elwood), 462 historical writing, 366, 384–5

927

Index

Hume, David (cont.) Introduction to the History of Great Britain and on inferential reason, 409–10 Ireland (Macpherson), 382 on materialisation of philosophical Irene (Johnson), 328 medium, 410 Iron Chest, The (Colman), 333 on metaphysics, 409 Island Princess, The (Motteux), 329 on morality in sentimental ﬁction, 578–9 Itinerarium (Hamilton), 506 on two kinds of philosophers, 408 works Jacob, Giles, 196 An Enquiry concerning Human Jacob, Hildebrand, 176, 201, 202 Understanding, 408, 411–12 Jacobites, 353 An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Jacobite’s Journal (Henry Fielding), 540–1 Morals, 579 Jacques le Fataliste (Diderot), 443 History of England, 366, 375–6, 383, 384 James, Elinor, 73 Treatise of Human Nature, 375, 408 Elinor James’s Advice to the King and Humphry Clinker (Smollett), 601 Parliament, 73 Hundred Merrie Tales, 65 James, Nicholas, 195 Hurd, Bishop, 619, 687–8 James Watson’s Choice Collection of Comic and Hutcheson, Francis, 405–6, 487, 578 Serious Scots Poems, 353–4 Hutchinson, Lucy, 369 Jane Shore (Rowe), 119 Huygens, Christiaan, 430 Jenyns, Soame Hymn Book (Madan), 210 The Art of Dancing, 196 Hymns and Sacred Poems (Wesley), 468 Thoughts on the National Debt, 508–10 Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Fasts and Jerusalem (Tasso), 213 Festivals oftheChurch of England, 469 jestbooks, 65–6 Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Watts), 468 Jew, The (Cumberland), 327 Hymns (Watts), 32 Job (Blackmore), 202 Joe Miller’s Jests, 65–6 Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Johnson, Samuel, 375 (Bailyn), 501–2, 506 antipathy to England’s Country vision, 501 Idle ’Prentice Executed at Tyburn, The on historical writing (Hogarth), 61–3 on literary criticism, 471, 490–2 Idler, 544 personal letters, 628 Iliad, 35, 201 political pamphlets by, 566–7 Imitation of Christ (Kempis), 455 publication of Rambler, 541–3 Imitations of Horace (Pope), 188 satires by, 290–1 Impartial Critic, The (Dennis), 426, 479 on sonnets, 314 Inchbald, Elizabeth, 327 on speech, 350 Incognita (Congreve), 494–5 tragedies by, 328 Indian Emperor, The (Dryden), 114 travel narratives, 725–6 Indian Queen, The (Dryden), 114 works, 492–3 Industry and Idleness (Hogarth), 63, 70, 73 Dictionary of the English Language, 32, 314, Infant Expiring Second Day of its Birth, To An 395, 490 (Wright), 190 The False Alarm, 501, 507, 566–7 inferential reason, 409–10 Irene, 328 Inﬁdelity; or, The Victims of Sentiment, 573, 574 Lives of the Poets, 424–5, 501 Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty London, 290 and Virtue, An (Hutcheson), 406–7, 487 The Patriot, 567 Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Plays of William Shakespeare, 490 Equiano (Equiano), 521, 735–6 Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, 395, 441–2, 609 Intriguing Chambermaid, The (Henry Fielding), Taxation No Tyranny, 498–9, 501, 567 130, 318–19 Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Introduction, The (Finch), 227 Falkland’s Islands, 567 Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Bentham), 453 The Vanity of Human Wishes, 291

928

Index

Jones, Mary Lady Julia Mandeville (Brooke), 588, 592 publication of poems by, 211 Lady’s Dressing Room, The (Swift), 271 works La Henriade (Voltaire), 436 Of Desire. An Epistle to Honorable Miss L’Allegro ed il Penseroso (Milton), 435 Lovelace, 291 Lamb, Charles, 121 An Epistle to Lady Bowyer, 223 Lampe, John Frederick, 330 Miscellanies, 291 lampoons, 56, 161 writing style, 216 Laocoon¨ (Lessing), 404 Jones, Sir William, 313–14, 496 Lapraik, John, 340–1 Jonson, Ben, 44, 216 La Princesse de Cleves` (Madame de Lafayette), Joseph Andrews (Henry Fielding), 102–3 576 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Boswell), 381 La serva padrona (Pergolesi), 331 Journal orDiaryofaThankful Christian Last Instructions to a Painter (Marvell), 170 (Beadle), 651–2 latitudinarians, 445 Jovial Mercury (Dunton), 531 Law, William, 459–60 Jubilee, The (Garrick), 332 Lawes, Henry, 44 Judgment of Paris, The (Barthel´ emon),´ 331 lazzi, 129 Julia de Roubigne´ (Mackenzie), 588 Leapor, Mary, 176 Julian, Robert, 56 domestic poems by, 217 Julia (Williams), 234 effect-based verses by, 814–15 Junius, 564–5 fables by, 228 Juvenal and Persius (Dryden), 41 friendship poems by, 229 poems by, 189, 211 Kames, Henry satires by, 291–3 Elements of Criticism, 487 works Sketches of the History of Man, 380 Crumble-Hall, 189, 217, 292 Kant, Immanuel, 408 Poems on Several Occasions, 168, 292 Keach, Benjamin, 176 Le Bossu, Rene,´ 178, 426 Kelly, Hugh, 326, 590 Lectures on Poetry (Trapp), 179, 472 False Delicacy, 326 Lectures on Preaching (Doddridge), 454 Memoirs of a Magdalen, 590 Lectures on the Sacred Poesy of the Hebrews Kelly, John, 319, 590 (Lowth), 467, 496 Kemble, John Philip, 334 Lee, Nathaniel, 113, 115–17 Kempis, Thomas a,` 455 Lucius Junus Brutus Father of His Country, Ken, Thomas, 176 115, 116 Kensington Gardens (Tickell), 197 The Massacre of Paris, 115, 116–17 Killigrew, Anne, 47 Nero, 112, 115 Killigrew, Thomas, 109–10, 128 Oedipus, 139 Kind Keeper, The; or Mr Limberham (Dryden), Sophonisba, 115, 319 112 Theodosius, 116 King, William Lee, Sophia, 765 TheArt of Cookery, 196 Legion’s Memorial (Defoe), 554 in Christ Church wits, 176 Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 431–2 as satirist, 48 Leighton-Stone-Air (Harris), 195 King and the Milles of Mansﬁeld, The (Dodsley), Leland, John, 410 321 Le Lutrin (Boileau), 425 King Arthur (Dryden), 120, 434 Lennox, Charlotte King Charles the First (Havard), 321 poems by, 211 King’s Company, 109, 112 publication of poems by, 211 Kingsmill, Anne, 47 works Kit Cat Club, 49–50 Euphemia, 746 Knight of the Burning Pestle, The (Fletcher), 130 The Female Quixote, 753–5 Kramnick, Isaac, 499 Harriot Stuart, 746

929

Index

Leonidas (Glover), 201 quality and historicity of literature, 809–17 L’Estrange, Roger, 13 quantity and quality, 806–9 letters, personal. See personal letters rubrics, 799–800 Letters Concerning Mythology (Blackwell), literary circles, 44–9 620 literary criticism, 471–97 Letters Concerning the English Nation (Voltaire), aesthetics in, 487–8 436, 438–9 and diversity of readers, 474 Letters from Lady Juliet Catesby (Brooke), 576 and human nature, 473–4 Letters on a Regicide Peace (Burke), 789 orientation of, 472–3 Letters on Chivalry and Romances (Hurd), 619, periodicals, 472 687–8 power of critics, 496–7 Letters on England (Voltaire), 489 progressive and Romantic views, 494–5 Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (Hester), and rewriting of English history, 480–2 381 and rise of British empire, 495–6 Letters on the Study and Use of History and roots of English poetry, 488–9 (Bolingbroke), 368, 378 and war between Ancients and Moderns, Letter to a Noble Lord, A (Burke), 789 482–5 Lettres portugaises (Guilleragues), 576 Little Haymarket Theatre, 318, 320 Lewis, Matthew, 685, 692 Little Pretty Pocketbook, A (Newbery), 67 Liberty (Thomson), 196, 501, 681 Little Review, 532–3 libraries, 29 Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (Sarah Fielding), Licensing Act of 1695, 169, 320–2 764 licensing laws, 14, 23–4 Lives of the Poets (Johnson), 424–5, 501 Life and Death of Mr Badman, The (Bunyan), Locke, John, 451–2 457 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (Henry 451–2 Fielding), 131 Reasonableness of Christianity, 452 Life and Errors of John Dunton Late Citizen of London Cuckolds, The (Ravenscroft), 123 London (Dunton), 252 London (Johnson), 290 Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of London Merchant, The (Lillo), 120, 319 Robinson Crusoe, The (Defoe), 650–1, London Mercury, 531 742–3 London: or, the Progress of Commerce (Glover), Life of Madame de Beaumount, a French Lady 518–19 (Aubin), 99 Long, Edward, 732–3 Life of Samuel Johnson, The (Boswell), 66, 498, Longinus, 774 666 Lonsdale, Roger, 806–9 Life of the Most Reverend Dr John Tillotson Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, 224, 806 (Birch), 463 New Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse, 806–7 Life’s Progress (Finch), 211, 224–5 Lottery, The (Henry Fielding), 130 Lillo, George, 319 Louis XIV, 423 Fatal Curiosity, 319 Loutherbourg, Philippe de, 82–3 The London Merchant, 120, 319 Love alaMode` (Macklin), 325 Lintot, Bernard, 171 Love for Love (Congreve), 127 Lionel and Clarissa (Bickerstaffe), 332 Love in a Village (Bickerstaffe), 331–2 literacy rates, 162 Love in Excess, or, The Fatal Inquiry: a Novel literary change, in mid and late eighteenth (Haywood), 91, 96, 418–19 century, 797–823 Love in the Dark, or the Man of Bus’ness (Fane), analysis of, 822–3 123 convenience in, 800–3 Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister dates, 799 (Behn), 88–90 overview, 797–800 Love of Fame (Young), 188 persistence of preromanticism, 803–6 Lover’s Vows (Inchbald), 327 quality and change, 818–22 Love’s Last Shift (Cibber), 128

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Lowth, Robert, 467 magic lanterns, 82 Lectures on the Sacred Poesy of the Hebrews, Maidens Complaint against Coffee, or the Coffee 467, 496, 605 House Discovered, 54 Praelectiones de Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum, 467, Maid of the Mill, The (Bickerstaffe), 332 605 Maid’s Last Prayer, The (Southerne), 126 Lucius Junus Brutus Father of His Country (Lee), Maizeaux, Pierre des, 429–30 115, 116 Mandeville, Bernard Luckey Chance, The (Behn), 129 The Fable of the Bees, 510, 578 Luctus Britannici; or the Tears of the British and Scottish Englightenment, 441 Muses: for the Death of John Dryden, 170 Manley, Delariviere, 128 Ludlow Masque (Milton), 261 New Atalantis, 91, 96 Lusiad (Camoens), 511 Secret History of Queen Zarah and the Lycidas (Milton), 261 Zarazians, 373, 471 lyrics, 197–200, 309–15, 467–8 manners, history of, 380–3 Manners: A Satyr, 190 Macaulay, Catherine Man of Failing, The, 601 History of England (1763–83), 366 Man of Feeling, The (Mackenzie), 598–9, 600 History of England from the Revolution to the Man of Mode, The (Etherege), 125–6 Present Time, 385–7 Man of Sensibility, The (Scott), 760 History of England from the Revolution to the Man of Taste, The (Miller), 319 Present Time, in a Series of Letters (1778), Man of the World, The (Mackenzie), 588, 377, 385, 386–7 599–601 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 42–3 Man of the World, The (Macklin), 326 MacCodrum, Iain, 356 manuscripts, 56–60 MacDonald, Alexander, 356 production and circulation of, 16 MacFlecknoe (Dryden), 138, 139–40, 189, 206 sale of, 33–4 MacIntyre, Duncan Ban, 356 as vehicle for poetry, 164, 165 Mack, Maynard, 499 Marlborough, Duke of, 184 Mackenzie, Henry, 572 Marriage a-la-Mode` (Dryden), 115, 122, 123 The Man of Feeling, 598–9, 600 Married Libertine, The (Macklin), 326 The Man of the World, 588, 599–601 Married Philosopher, The (Kelly), 319 Macklin, Charles, 325–6 Martin, Benjamin, 413 Love alaMode` , 325 The Universal Grammar, 396 The Man of the World, 326 Young Gentleman and Ladies Philosophy, 413 TheMarried Libertine, 326 Marvell, Andrew Macpherson, James, 382 and Restoration literature, 38, 153 criticisms of, 607 works defenders of, 607 Horatian Ode, 154 Ossian poems by, 604–5 Last Instructions to a Painter, 170 acceptance into canon, 611 Upon Appleton House, 154, 279 fragments, 606, 608 writing style, 166 popularity, 608–9 Mary, Queen of Scots, 376 translations, 605–6 Mary of Modena, 47–8 preface to Fingal, 610–11 Mary; or, The WrongsofWoman works, 609 (Wollstonecraft), 574 Fingal, 610–11 masques, 121 Introduction to the History of Great Britain Massacre of Paris, The (Lee), 115, 116–17 and Ireland, 382 Massinger, Philip, 119 Madame Fickle (Durfey), 125 Master of the Revels, 109 Madan, Judith Cowper, 211 Masters, Mary, 176 domestic poems by, 216 Marinda poems by, 230 publication of poems by, 209 publication of poems by, 211 Maggots (Wesley), 176 satires by, 228

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Match at Football, The (Concannen), 195 Miscellany (Lintot), 171 Mathison, Thomas, 195 Miscellany Poems (Finch), 41, 225 Maturin, Charles, 685–6 Miss Melmoth: or, The New Clarissa (Briscoe), Mauduit, Israel, 563 586 May Day (Arne), 332 Mock Doctor, The (Henry Fielding), 80, 130 Mayer, Robert, 377 Mock-Tempest, The (Duffet), 130 Medal, The; A Satyr against Sedition (Dryden), Modern Husband, The (Henry Fielding), 319–20 190 Modern Patriot, The (Cowper), 297 Medall, The, 138 Modest Proposal, A (Swift), 241–2, 558 Meditations and Contemplations (Hervey), 467 Monk, The (Lewis), 685, 692 Melmoth, Courtney, 689 Montagu, Elizabeth, 489 Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin), 685–6 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley Memoir on the Appearance of Spectres or on Gothic literature, 684 Phantoms Occasioned by Disease pastoral poetry by, 269 (Nicolai), 694 personal letters, 631–5 memoirs, 369 publication of poems by, 211 Memoirs of a Magdalen (Kelly), 590 travel narratives, 715–18 Memoirs of Sidney Bidulph (Sheridan), 761 works Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Essay on the Writings and Genius of Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus (Pope, Shakespear, 489 Swift, Arbuthnot et al.), 50–1, 253 Town Eclogues, 179, 269–70 Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson as writer-poet, 175 (Hutchinson), 369 writing style of, 212, 213 Men of Letters and the English Public in the Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Eighteenth Century (Beljame), 43 Baron de, 429, 442–3 Mercenary Lover, The (Haywood), 420–1 Moore, Edward, 328 Merlimus Liberatus (Partridge), 71 Moore, Francis, 71 Mersenne, Marin, 430 Moral Essays (Pope), 188 metaphysics, 409 Moral Satires (Cowper), 297 mezzotint, 28–9 More, Hannah Mickle, William Julius, 511 education of, 219 Midas (O’Hara), 331 publication of poems by, 211, 213 Milbourne, Luke, 177 works Millenium Hall (Scott), 759–60 Cheap Repository of Moral and Religious Miller, James Tracts, 66, 67 The Art of Life, 196 Sensibility, 574–5 The Man of Taste, 319 More Priestcraft (Ward), 190 Milton, John, 171–2 Morning Dream, The (Cowper), 297–8 friends of, 38 Mourning Bride, The (Congreve), 119 works Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 436 Comus, 330 Muralt, Beat´ de, 442 History of Britain, 366 Murphy, Arthur, 328 L’Allegro ed il Penseroso, 435 Murry,Ann, 214 Ludlow Masque, 261 musicals, 120–1 Lycidas, 261 music in poetry, 203 Paradise Lost, 34, 253, 261, 466–7, 684, 691 Mysteries of Udolpho (Radcliffe), 685, 692, 697 Minor, The (Foote), 325 Minstrel, The; or, The Progress of Genius narrative histories, 366–8 (Beattie), 304–5, 348, 351–2 in mid eighteenth century, 368 minute philosophy, 392 rearrangement or break-up in, 379–80 miscellanies, 169–71, 174–7 national history, 382–3 Miscellanies (Pope and Swift), 40 natural philosophy, 396, 407–8 Miscellanies (Tonson), 263 Natural Religion (Wilkins), 450–1

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Index

Natural Theology (Paley), 397 female readers of, 97–8 Nature and Origin of Mental Derangement feminism in, 92–4 (Crichton), 694 formula ﬁction, 91–2, 94–5 Nature and Society (Feingold), 504 and historical writings, 377–8 Necromancer, The; or Harlequin Dr Faustus improvement of, 98–100 (Rich), 318 as literary form, 104–5 Negro’s Complaint, The (Cowper), 297–8 philosophy in, 410–11, 419–20 Nemoianu, Virgil, 805 publication of, 26–7 neoclassicism, 178–9, 412 reading of, 95–8 Nereides: or Sea-Eclogues (Diaper), 271–2 Nugent, Robert, 196 Nero (Lee), 112, 115 New Arcadia (Sidney), 233 Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser New Atalantis (Manley), 91, 96 (Warton), 489, 619 Newbery, John Observations upon the United Provinces of the New Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse Netherlands (Temple), 430 (Lonsdale), 806–7 Occasionalism, 170 New Collections of Poems on Several Occasions octosyllabic couplets, 166 (Gildon), 210 Ode for St Cecilia’s Day (Dryden), 435 news-pamphlets, 653 Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands newspaper publishing, 30–1 of Scotland (Collins), 312 Newton, Isaac, 431–2 odes, 199–200, 309–10, 467–8 Newton, John Odes on Various Subjects (Warton), 309–10, 617, autobiography, 465–6 618–19 Olney Hymns, 470 Ode to Spring (Barbauld), 314 Newtonianism, 439 Odyssey, The (Homer), 35, 201 Newtonianismo per le dame (Algarotti), 415 Oeconomy of Love, The (Armstrong), 282–3 New Version of the Psalms of David, A (Tate and Oedipus (Dryden and Lee), 139 Brady), 469 Of Desire. An Epistle to Honorable Miss Lovelace New Voyage round the World, A (Dampier), 731 (Jones), 291 Nicolai, Cristoph Friedrich, 694 Of Dramatic Poesie (Dryden), 111, 425 Nicoll, Allardyce, 317 Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion Night (Churchill), 294 (Wilkins), 450–1 Night Thoughts (Young), 34, 300, 301–2, 467 Ogilby, John, 721 Nine Living Muses of Great Britain, The O’Hara, Kane, 331 (Samuel), 367 O’Keefe, John Nine Muses, The. Or, Poems Written by Nine The Castle of Andalusia, 333 several Ladies upon the Death of the late The Farmer, 333 Famous John Dryden, 170 ThePoor Soldier, 333 Nocturnal Reverie (Finch), 212 Old Batchelour, The (Congreve), 127 nonconformists, 446, 456–7 Oldenburg, Henry, 432 Non-Juror, The (Cibber), 323 Old English Baron, The (Reeve), 495, 765 Noon-Piece; or, The Mowers at Dinner (Smart), Oldham, John, 176 274 Oldmixon, John, 175 Norris, John, 174, 529 Critical History of England, 384 Northanger Abbey (Austen), 673, 745 propaganda by, 557 North Briton, The (Wilkes), 563–4 Old Mortality (Scott), 374 Norton Anthology, 801–2 Old Woman’s Oratory (Smart), 84 novelists, women. See women novelists Olney Hymns (Newton and Cowper), 470 novels, 87–105 On Conciliation with the Colonies (Burke), 522 of amorous intrigue, 87–95 On Leaving Holland (Akenside), 310 anti-novel discourse in early eighteenth On Lyric Poetry (Akenside), 310 century, 96 On the Esthetic Education of Mankind (Schiller), emergence in eighteenth century, 104 444

933

Index

On the Sublime (Longinus), 427, 774 Parliamentary Union of 1707, 353 opera buffa, 331, 332 Parnell, Thomas, 176, 259 operas, 329–33, 433–6 Partiarcha (Filmer), 142 opera seria, 331 Partridge, Eric, 803 Opie, Amelia, 214, 234 Partridge, John, 71 Oracles of Empire (Shields), 504 Pasquin (Henry Fielding), 131, 320 orations, 83–4 pasticcio, 331 Oroonoko: Or the Royal Slave (Behn), 91, 119, Pastoral Ballad (Shenstone), 274 576, 594, 741–2 Pastoral Dialogue (Swift), 270–1 Orphan, The (Otway), 117 pastoral poetry, 166 Orphan of China, The (Murphy), 328 anti- or mock pastorals, 267–8 Orpheus Caledonius (Thomson), 356 development of, 261 Osborne, Thomas, 21 French theory on, 261–2 Ossianic poetry, 603–5 Golden Age theory on, 266–7, 274 Otway, Thomas, 117, 122 ironies of, 284–6 Alcibiades, 117 landscapes in, 274 TheAtheist, 122 limitation of place, time and action in, 269 Don Carlos, 117 persistence of, 259–60 Epsom-Wells, 122 singing shepherd in, 273–4 Friendship in Fashion, 122 Pastorals (Pope), 57, 179, 263–4 The History and Fall of Casius Marius, 117 patent theatres, 320 TheOrphan, 117 Patriot, The (Johnson), 567 TheSouldier’s Fortune, 122 patriot drama, 319 ATrueWidow, 122 patronage, 203 Venice Preserved, 117 patrons, 41 The Virtuoso, 122 Payne, Henry Nevile, 114 Ovids Epistles, 41 Peep Behind the Curtain, A (Garrick), 331 Oxford History of English Literature, The (Butt), Pellison-Fontanier, Paul, 431 800 Penhurst, To (Jonson), 279 pentameter couplets, 166, 167 Padlock, The (Dibdin), 332 Pepys, Samuel, 655–6, 672 Paine, Thomas Perceval, John, 552 Common Sense, 517, 784 Percy, Thomas Rights of Man, 553, 569–70, 784 correspondences, 615–16 Paley, William, 397 interest in old ballads and Chinese Pamela, orVirtueRewarded (Richardson), 100–5 literature, 496 and development of sentimental ﬁction, on old English ballads, 613–15 751–2 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 613–15 disguise scene in, 101 Peri Bathous (Pope), 51 moral issues in, 69–70 periodical essays (eighteenth century), 527–48 moral philosophy in, 401 from The Athenian Mercury to The Tatler, as a novel of amorous intrigue, 100–1 529–35 origin of, 635 autobiographical writing in, 653 plot of, 100 brief history, 527 in print market, 101–2 characteristics of, 528 responses to, 102 end of the genre, 544–8 success in elevation of novel reading, 103–4 and periodical publication, 527–8 Pamela Censured, 102 readers of, 528 pamphlets, inﬂuence on public opinion, 552–3 from TheSpectator to The Rambler, 535–44 panegyrics, 184–5, 203 periodicals, publication of, 527 pantomimes, 80–3, 318 Perrault, Charles, 433 paper production, 27 Perseus and Andromeda (Rich), 318 Paradise Lost (Milton), 34, 253, 261, 466–7, 691 Persian Eclogues (Collins), 272–3

934

Index

Persistence ofEmpire, The (Gould), 519 Plaine Mans Path-way to Heaven, The (Dent), personal letters, 625–48 457 acts of writing in, 626 Plan of the English Commerce, A (Defoe), 504 authors of, 626–7 Playhouse, The (Gould), 190 Alexander Pope, 627–30 Playhouse to be Let, The (D’Avenant), 130 Hester Thrale Piozzi, 643–6 Plays of William Shakespeare (Johnson), 490 Horace Walpole, 639–43 playwrights, 111–12, 338 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 631–5 Pleasures of Imagination, The (Addison), Philip Dormer Stanhope, 635–9 405–6 Samuel Johnson, 628 Pleasures of Imagination, The (Akenside), William Cowper, 646–8 302–3 diversity of subjects and styles in, 626 Pocock, J. G. A., 511 liminalities and paradoxes of, 625–6 Pococke, Richard, 736–7 of women in eighteenth century, 631 poems Phelps, William Lyons, 803 miscellanies, 169–71 Philips, Ambrose, 264–5, 540 and music, 203 Philips, John standards for rhythm and rhyme in, 203 Bleinheim, 184 varieties and forms, 167–9 Cyder, 49, 278–9 Poems, Chieﬂy in the Scottish Dialect (Burns), epitaphs, 49 345 Philips, Katherine Poems and Songs (Flatman), 203 accessibility of poetry by, 56, 165 Poems by Eminent Ladies, 211 poems by, 47 Poems on Affairs of State, 41, 170 by profession, 174 Poems on Several Occasions (Leapor), 168, 292 Philosophical Dictionary (Voltaire), 438 Poems on Several Occasions (Rowe), 213 Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our poetry, 165–6 Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, A accessibility across social and economic (Burke), 487 groups, 163 Philosophical Transactions (Keill), 432 access to, 162 philosophy and literature, 391–422 manuscripts, 164, 165 design argument in, 396–7 miscellanies, 169–71 disciplinary distinctions in, 393–4 theatre, 164–5 divisions of philosophy, 395–412 after death of Alexander Pope, 287–315 empiricism in, 392–3 didactic/discursive poetry, 299–309 novels in, 410 lyric poetry, 309–15 problem of popular philosophy, 412–22 satiric poetry, 290–9 vs. rhetorics, 394–5 and arts, 203 women in, 414–15 and canon of the period, 163–4 Philosophy of Rhetoric, The (Campbell), 392, collections of, 171–2 773–4, 780 Gothic inﬂuence, 684–5 Piety in Patterns (Foote), 325 popular subjects of, 160–1 Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan), 458, 459, 461 publishing and marketing of, 161–2 Pilkington, Laetitia, 211, 220 readership, 163 Pindar, 200 from Restoration to death of Alexander Pinkerton, John, 382, 611 Pope, 160–208 Pinkethman’s Jests, 65 access to poetry, 164–72 Piozzi, Hester Thrale, 643–6, 718–19 changes and trends, 202–8 piracies, 24–5 didactic and satirical poetry, 187–96 Pity for Poor Africans (Cowper), 298 epic, 200–2 Pix, Mary, 128 genres, 177–83 The Beau Defeated, 129 lyrics, 197–200 Pizarro (Sheridan), 338 poetic identities and careers, 172–7 Plain Dealer, The (Wycherley), 124–5, 225 public and political poetry, 183–7

935

Index

poetry (cont.) Pope, Alexander and Romanticism, 160 accessibility of poetry by, 162–3, 165 roots of, 488–9 childhood of, 207–8 Scottish. See Scottish poetry on couplets, 300 urban themes in, 204 dominance of, 205 poets, 174–7 epistles, 39 anonymity of, 173–4 influence on other poets, 287 attributions, 173–4 inner circle of, 208 collections, 171–2 on literary criticism, 483–5 demographics of, 202 manuscripts, 57–60 identity of, 172–3 miscellanies, 171 offhand and occasional, 175–6 pastorals by, 263–4, 268 by profession, 174 personal letters, 627–30 of special public occasions, 176–7 on political poetry, 185 women poets, 209–34 portrait of, 288 in eighteenth century, 210–14 spoof essay by, 266 collections of poems by, 210 subscription publishing by, 35 domestic situations of, 214–22 works education of, 218 TheDunciad, 73, 77, 189, 250 fables by, 228 Dunciad Variorum, 40, 51 identity of, 221–2 Epistle to Augustus, 191 Jonathan Swift’s influence on, 216 Epistle to Bathurst, 503 life and literary styles of, 213 Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 192, 220, 223 number of publications by, 209 An Essay on Criticism, 483–5 reasons for writing poems by, 222–4 An Essay on Man, 196 satires by, 188–9 Imitations of Horace, 188 in Scotland, 357–8 Miscellanies, 40 significance of, 231–4 Moral Essays, 188 sonnets by, 231–4 Pastorals, 57, 179, 263–4 writers as, 174–5 Peri Bathous, 51 Political Justice, 196 The Rape of the Lock, 41, 59–60, 188, 190 political pamphlets, 549–71 Works, 57 articulation of arguments in, 552 writing of heroic couplets by, 222 characteristics of, 550–1 popular culture, 63 constitutional issues in, 553 popular entertainment, 61 by John Wilkes, 562–7 advice and conduct books, 69–70 in opposition to Robert Walpole, 559–62 almanacs, 70–1 and political parties, 553, 558 broadsides, 70–5 on Revolution of 1688, 567–71 chapbooks, 63–8 political parties, 549–50 farces, 79–80 political poetry, 183–7, 290 orations, 83–4 political prose, 768–93 pantomimes, 80–3 accessibility of, 783 Portrait, The (Arnold), 331 eloquence and literary expression, 785–93 Posthumous Memoirs (Wraxall), 790 eloquence and oratory, 779–85 Power of Destiny, The (Darwall), 220 eloquence of, 769–79 Practice of Christian Graces, 456 literary criticism of, 780–2 Practice of Pietie (Bayly), 455 political satires, 191–2, 320 Praelectiones de Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum Polly Peachum’s Jests, 65 (Lowth), 467, 605 Pomfret, John, 176, 196 Praelectiones Poeticae (Trapp), 472 Poor Man’s Family Book (Baxter), 456, 457 Prefaces to the English Poets (Johnson), 492–3 Poor Soldier, The (O’Keefe), 333 Prince Arthur (Blackmore), 202 Poor Vulcan (Dibdin), 331 print culture, 55–6

936

Index

printers, 19–20 Purney, Thomas, 271 Printing Acts, 14 Puttenham, George, 472 print market, 101–2 prints, 85–6 Quaker’s Opera, The; or, The Escapes of Jack Prior, Matthew, 174 Sheppard (Walker), 75 Alma, or the Progress of the Mind, 205 Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, An Epitaph, 180, 182 427, 482–5 Henry and Emmas, 205 Queen Anne, death of, 247 poems by, 205 Prison-Breaker, The; or, the Adventures of John Racine, Berenice, 117 Sheppard, 75 Radcliffe, Ann, 676 Profession of English Letters, The (Saunders), 43 Gothic novels by, 694 Progress of Romance, The (Reeve), 87, 96–7, 381, Mysteries of Udolpho, 685, 692, 697 495 Rambler The, 541–3 prologues, 39–40, 111, 164, 165 Ramsay, Allan Prometheus Unbound (Shelley), 299 The Evergreen, 354–5, 612 Prophecy of Famine, The (Churchill), 293 verse correspondence with Alexander Prophetess, The (Fletcher), 120 Hamilton, 343–4 prospect poem, 279 Rape of Proserpine, The (Rich), 318 Protestant Christiniaty, Post-Reformation, Rape of the Lock, The (Pope), 41, 59–60, 188, 190 396 Rapin, Rene,´ 425 Provok’d Husband, The (Vanbrugh and Dissertatio de Carmine Pastorali, 261 Cibber), 127, 323 Reflexions sur la poetique´ d’Aristote, 425 Provoked Wife, The (Vanbrugh), 126 Rapin-Thoyras, Paul de, 366 Psalms of David imitated in the Language of New Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (Johnson), 395, Testament, The (Watts), 468 441–2, 609 Psyche Debauch’d (Duffet), 130 Ravenscroft, Edward, 123 Psyche (Shadwell), 120 Ray, John, 397, 402 public poetry, 183–7 Reasonableness of Christianity, The (Locke), 452 public sphere, 52–5, 185, 549 Reason (Pomfret), 196 publishers, 19 Recess, The (Lee), 765 publishing and bookselling, 13–36 Recruiting Officer, The (Farquhar), 127 capital requirements, 29–30 Reeve, Clara commercial advertising, 31 Gothic novel by, 765 commodification of literature in, 36 historical writing, 381 copies per book editions, 31–2 novel of amorous intrigue by, 87, 96, 495 credit terms, 33 poems by, 213 dominance of London in, 25–6 on women writers, 222 growth of, 15–16 works newspaper publishing, 30–1 The Old English Baron, 495, 765 novels, 26–7 The ProgressofRomance, 87, 96–7, 381, 495 printed publication growth rates, 16–17 Reflections on Marriage (Astell), 415 Printing Acts, 14 Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke), protectionism in, 15 551–2, 567–9, 785, 786–7 religious works, 17 Reflexions´ critiques (Boileau), 427 reprinting rights, 23, 24 Reflexions sur la poetique´ d’Aristote (Rapin), 425 and Restoration government, 13 Reformation of Manners (Defoe), 188 retailing, 18 reform comedies, 323 specialisms of different districts in, 26 Rehearsal, The (Buckingham), 40 subscription publishing, 34–5 direction of, 111 technological innovations, 15 mimicry of John Dryden’s mannerisms in, trade discounts, 32–3 149–50 Purcell, Henry, 434 writers of, 45

937

Index

Relapse, The (Vanbrugh), 126 Rinaldo (Handel), 434 Religio Laici (Dryden), 138, 143–4, 206 Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, The Religion the Only Happiness, 196 (Doddridge), 460 religious literature, 445–70 Rise of the Novel, The (Watt), 87 categories, 449–50 Rival Ladies, The (Dryden), 424 Christian experience, 460–6 Rival Queens, The (Lee), 115–16 Christian songs, 466–70 Rivals, The (Sheridan), 326 defence and deﬁnition of religion, 450–3 Rival Wives, The, 191 devotional literature, 455 Road to Ruin, The (Holcroft), 327 guides of Christian life, 454–60 Robertson, William, 387 publication of, 17, 66–7 Historical Disquisition on India, 367 religious spectrum, 445–50 The History of America, 383, 496 sermons, 454 History of Scotland, 366, 376, 383, 496 theological and philosophical issues, History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V, 448–9 380, 383, 496 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Percy), Robinson, George, 23 613–15 Robinson, Mary, 213, 233 Reliquiae Baxterianae (Baxter), 462 Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 650–1, 742–3 reprinting rights, 15, 23 Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of Restoration theatre, 109–31 court poets of, 45–6 actors in, 121–31 pastorals by, 40 buildings and sceneries, 109–10 Satyr against Reason and Mankind, 188 comedies, 121–31 Roman Catholics, 447 heroic play and baroque tragedy, 112–20 Roman Father, The (Whitehead), 328 ideological conﬂicts in, 113–14 Romantic poetry, 160 musicals, 120–1 Rorty, Richard, 400 pace of playing in, 110 Rosciad, The (Churchill), 293 playwrights, 111–12 Ross, William, 356 women dramatists, 128 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 443 women in, 109, 110 Routledge History of Literature in English, The, Retaliation (Goldsmith), 293 818 retirement poems, 230–1 Rover, The (Behn), 123, 128 Review, The (Defoe), 531–2, 555 Rowe,Elizabeth Singer Revolution of 1688, 567–71 poems by, 176, 212–13 Rey, Marc-Michel, 430 publication of poems by, 210 rhymes, 165 works Rich, John, 81, 320 History of Joseph, 201 Apollo and Daphne, 318 Poems on Several Occasions, 213 Necromancer, The; or Harlequin Dr Faustus, Rowe,Nicholas, 119 318 The Fair Penitent, 119, 319 Perseus and Andromeda, 318 Jane Shore, 119 The Rape of Proserpine, 318 Roxana (Defoe), 99–100 Richardson, Samuel, 87, 582–6 Royal Society, 432 Clarissa, 704–5 Ruins ofRome(Dyer), 515–16 Collection of the Moral and Instructive Rule, Britania (Thomson), 298 Sentiments, 583 Rural Sports (Gay), 194 Familiar Letters, 69–70 Rymer, Thomas, 476–8 Pamela, 635, 751–2 AShortView of Tragedy, 426, 477 Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, 69–70, 100–2, TheTragedies of the Last Age Considered, 103–4, 105, 401, 635, 751–2 476–7 Sir Charles Grandison, 482, 582–6 Richelieu, Armand Jean, 425 Sacred Theory of the Earth, The (Burnet), Rights of Man (Paine), 553, 569–70, 784 399–400

938

Index

Saint-Evremond, Charles, 428 Scottish poetry, 340 comparison with Voltaire, 429 See also poetry and Enlightenment, 429–30 ballads, 355–6 exile to England, 428 effect of union with England, 352–3 favourite authors, 429 issue of nationhood in, 352 on operas, 433 language, 347–8, 350–1 philosophy of, 428–9 poets of eighteenth century, 356 Sir Politick Would-Be, 429 regional culture in, 359 Sanderson, Robert, 463 reprint of older poetry, 355–6 Santa Maria; or the Mysterious Pregnancy (Fox), songs, 356–8 677 women poets, 357–8 Sappho and Phaon (Robinson), 233 Scriblerians, 249–50 satires, 188 Scriblerus Club, 50–1 after death of Alexander Pope, Seasons, The (Thomson), 167, 195, 276, 281–2, 290–9 788 contemporary habits and manners in, Secret History of Queen Zarah and the Zarazians, 189–90 The (Manley), 373, 471 decline of, 204 Secret Love (Dryden), 114, 122 defences of, 192 Secular Masque, The (Dryden), 206 as opposite of panegyrics, 184–5 Select Society, 350 pentameter couplets in, 166 Sensibility (More), 574–5 political, 191–2, 320 sentimental comedies, 317, 323, 324 social, 192–3 Sentimental Deceiver, The, 573 satiric comedies, 323 sentimental ﬁction, 572–601 Saturday Club, 50 See also novels Satyr against Reason and Mankind, A in 1780s, 573–4 (Rochester), 188 benevolence in, 586–94 Satyr against the French, A, 190 by Laurence Sterne, 594–8 Satyr against Wit (Blackmore), 188 Restoration and eighteenth-century Satyr against Wooing, A (Gould), 190 divinity in, 577 Sault, Richard, 529 by Samuel Richardson, 582–6 Saunders, James, 43 self-gratiﬁcation in, 587–8 Savage, Mary, 214 sensibility in, 598–601 Schaw, Janet, 733–4 sympathy and moral sense in, 576–82 Schiller, Friedrich, 444 Sentimental History of Chimney Sweepers, A School for Lovers, The (Whitehead), 326 (Hanway), 590 School for Scandal, The (Sheridan), 324, 326, Sentimental Journey, A (Sterne), 596–8, 707 332 Sentimental Magazine, 573 Scotland Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, A (Law), literacy rates in, 162 459 paper production, 27 serious comedies, 327 political issue of nationhood, 352 Serious Proposal to the Ladies, A (Astell), 94 union with England, 352–3 sermons, 454 Scots Musical Museum, The, 356 Settle, Elkanah Scott, Geoffrey, 675–6, 677 TheEmpress of Morocco, 118, 130 Scott, Mary, 211 The Female Prelate, 118 Scott, Sarah, 593 The Siege of Troy, 76 Millenium Hall, 759–60 St George for England, 76 Sir George Ellison, 593 Seven Years War (1756–63), 563 Scott, Thomas, 466 Seward, Anna, 211 Scott, Sir Walter, 374 education of, 219 Scottish literature and the Scottish people, prominence in 1790s, 214 350 sonnets by, 233

939

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Shadwell, Thomas, 123 hymn books by, 469 The False Count, 129 odes by, 313 Psyche, 120 parodies by, 84 The Sullen Lovers, 123 pastorals by, 274 Shaftesbury, rd Earl of (Cooper), 404 works Shakespeare, William, 329, 489–92, 683–4 TheHop-Garden, 275 Shamela (Henry Fielding), 102 Old Woman’s Oratory, 84 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 299 ASongtoDavid, 313, 469 Shenstone, William ATranslation of the Psalms of David, 469 Colemira: A Culinary Eclogue, 195 Smellie, William, 350 Pastoral Ballad, 274 Smith, Adam, 579–80 pastoral eclogues, 273 TheTheory of Moral Sentiments, 579–80 use of analogies by, 615 The Wealth of Nations, 397, 504 Shepherd’s Week, The (Gay), 267 Smith, Charlotte, 211, 213 Sheppard, Jack, 74–5 domestic life of, 215 Sheridan, Frances, 586, 760–1 Elegiac Sonnets and Other Essays, 224, 231, 315 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 326 Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, 233, 765 The Critic, 85, 326 fables by, 228 as manager of Drury Lane Theatre, 337–8 Gothic novel by, 765 Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, 761 sonnets by, 224, 231–3 The Rivals, 326 Smith, Edmund, 176 TheSchool for Scandal, 324, 326, 332 Smith, John Harrington, 123 speeches, 782–3 Smith, Marshall, 184 on Warren Hastings, 783 Smollett, Tobias Sheridan and Linley, 332–3 Compleat History of England, 366, 376 She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith), 324, 326 Humphry Clinker, 601 Shields, David, 504 Travels through France and Italy, 709 Short Account of God’s Dealings with the writing style, 581 Reverend Mr George Whiteﬁeld Social Contract (Rousseau), 443 (Wesley), 464 social readings, 41–2 Shortest-Way with the Dissenters, The (Defoe), social satires, 192–3 554 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of (SPCK), 456 the English Stage, A (Collier), 478 Solomon on the Vanity of the World (Cowley), Short View of Tragedy, A (Rymer), 426, 477 201 Shunamite, The (Duck), 347 Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Sidney, Philip, 472 Honourable Col. James Gardiner Apology for Poetrie, 472 (Doddridge), 465 Sidney Bidulph (Sheridan), 586 songbooks, 65 Siecle` de Louis XIV (Voltaire), 433 Songs and other Poems (Brome), 203 Siege of Belgrade, The (Storace-Cobb), 333 Song to David, A (Smart), 313, 469 Siege of Constantinople, The (Payne), 114 Sonnet on the Death of Richard West (Gray), 289 Siege of Rhodes, The (Davenant), 424 sonnets, 231–4, 314–15 Siege of Troy, The (Settle), 76 Sonnets, Written Chieﬂy on Picturesque Spots signboards, 85 (Bowles), 315 Sinews of Power, The (Brewer), 507 Sons of Ben, 44 Sir Charles Grandison (Richardson), 482, 582–6 Sophonisba (Lee), 115, 319 Sir George Ellison (Scott), 593 Sorbiere,` Samuel, 430–1 Sir Politick Would-Be (Saint-Evremond), 429 Souldier’s Fortune, The (Otway), 122 Sketches of the History of Man (Kames), 380 Southerne, Thomas, 126 Smart, Christopher The Fatal Marriage, 119, 319 children’s literature by, 68 The Fate of Capua, 120 Georgics by, 275–6 TheMaid’s Last Prayer, 126

940

Index

The Spartan Dame, 120 Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce (Cowper), 298 The Wives’Excuse, 126, 128 Swieten, Baron Gottfried van, 436 Southwark Fair (Hogarth), 76, 78 Swift, Jonathan Spartan Dame, The (Southerne), 120 on Alexander Pope, 628 SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian animosity towards John Dryden, 157–8 Knowledge), 456 on beliefs and supernatural, 240 Specimens of British Poetesses (Dyce), 212 four-stress couplets by, 166 Spectator, The, 54–5, 537–40, 653 on ignorance about Ireland, 726 Speech on American Taxation (Burke), 777 inﬂuence on women poets, 216 Spencer, Georgia, 589 inner circle of, 249 Spender, Dale, 806 on literary criticism, 483 Spenser, Edmund, 261 pastoral poetry by, 270–1 Spleen, The (Finch), 210 on people who write low-life memoirs, Sprat, Thomas, 44 251–2 Account of the Life and Writings of Cowley, political pamphlets by, 555–8 431 portrait of, 236 History of the Royal Society, 431, 652–3 on religion, 239–40 response to Sorbiere,` 431 resistance to new trends, 235 Stage Coach, The (Farquhar), 79, 323 short verses by, 169 Stamp Act of 1712, 533 strategies and themes, 237–8 stanzas, 165 systems satires, 235–58 State of Innocence, The (Dryden), 115 perspective with his friends, 247–53 Stationers’ Company, 13, 14 satiric practitioner, 241–6 Steele, Richard satiric vision, 235–41 The Conscious Lovers, 128, 320, 323, 394 Scriblerians, 253–6 on literary criticism, 481 travel narratives, 743–4 in Spectator, 539–40 works Whig propaganda by, 557 The Battle of the Books, 237, 403 Sterne, Laurence, 594–8 The Bickerstaff Papers, 71 travel narratives, 708 Conduct of the Allies, 254, 550, 551, 556–7 works Description of the Morning, 270 ASentimental Journey, 816 TheDrapier’s Letters, 245, 558 Tristram Shandy, 254, 295, 576, 594–5 Gulliver’s Travels, 34, 51, 248, 253, 254–8, St George for England (Settle), 76 743–4 stipple, 28 History of the Four Last Years of Queen Anne, Storace, Stephen, 333 254 Stowe, The Gardens (West), 195 The Lady’s Dressing Room, 271 Strahan, William, 21 Miscellanies, 40 Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere AModest Proposal, 241–2, 558 (Habermas), 52–3 Pastoral Dialogue, 270–1 Strutt, Joseph, 381 ATaleofaTub, 187, 238, 240, 252, 483 Stubbes, George, 392, 397, 410 Thoughts on Various Subjects, 237–8, 239, 240, Sturrock, John, 659 243 Sublime and the Beautiful, The (Burke), 813 Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, subscription publishing, 34–5 253 Sugar-Cane, The: A Poem (Grainger), 275, 281, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, 242–6 504, 520–1 Sylvae (Dryden and Tonson), 41, 151 Sullen Lovers, The (Shadwell), 123 systems satire, 250–1 Summers, Montague, 122 Summum Bonum, The; or Wisest Philosophy Table-Talk (Cowper), 298 (Welsted), 196 Tale of a Tub, A (Swift), 187, 238, 240, 252, Surveyor of the Press, 109 483 Suspicious Husband, The (Hoadly), 324 Tales and Quicke Answers, 65

941

Index

Task, The (Cowper), 285 Theory of Moral Sentiments, The (Smith), 579–80 as one of best-selling poems of eighteenth Thomas, Elizabeth, 176 century, 467 Thomaso (Killigrew), 128 primitivism in, 603 Thompson, Isaac, 274 satire in, 298 Thomson, Derrick, 607 subject of, 307–9 Thomson, James Tasso, Torquato, 213 The Castle of Indolence, 348 Tate, Nahum, 469 Liberty, 196, 501, 681 Tatler,The, 533–5, 536–7, 653 Orpheus Caledonius, 356 Taxation No Tyranny (Johnson), 498–9, 501, 567 Rule, Britania, 298 Taylor, Jeremy, 455–6 The Seasons, 167, 195, 276, 281–2, 788 Tea-Table Miscellany, The (Ramsay), 356 Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents Teft, Elizabeth, 220 (Burke), 776, 777 Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 329 Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Temple, The (Herbert), 17, 468 Falkland’s Islands (Johnson), 567 Temple, William, 175 Thoughts on the National Debt (Jenyns), 508–10 on decline of Holland, 430 Thoughts on Various Subjects (Swift), 237–8, 239, historical writing, 368 240, 243 on Quarrel of the Ancients and the Thoughts upon the Four Last Things: Death; Moderns, 48, 427 Heaven; Judgment; Hell (Trapp), 196 on six recurrent motives for poetry, 299 ThreeDialogues between Hylas and Philonous works (Berkeley), 401–2 Ancient and Modern Learning, 48 Three Essays (Gilpin), 495 Observations upon the United Provinces of the Three Hours After Marriage (Gay, Pope, Netherlands, 430 Arbuthot), 50 ten-syllable couplets, 166 Thresher’s Labour, The (Duck), 274, 277 tetrameter couplets, 166 Thurmond, 75 theatre (mid and late eighteenth century), Thurston, Joseph, 196 316–39 Tickell, Thomas, 176, 197, 265–6 in 1730s, 318–21 Tillotson, John access to poetry in, 164–5 as Archbishop of Canterbury, 447 Age of Garrick, 333–7 sermons, 450 acting styles in, 335 writing style, 454 changeable sceneries in, 335–6 Timber (Jonson), 155 analytical history of, 317 Times, The, 293 audience, 336–7 Timoleon, 319 censorship, 317, 321–2 title pages, 172, 173 comedies and tragedies, 323–8 Todd, Janet, 806 competition in, 318 Todorov, Tzvetan, 695–6 criticisms of, 329–30 Toleration Act of 1689, 446 impact of Licensing Act, 321–2 Tollet, Elizabeth monopoly and commercialism, 337–9 education of, 219 musical dramas, 329–33 poems by, 211 ballad operas, 330 publication of poems by, 211 burlettas, 330–1 Tom Jones (Henry Fielding) comic operas, 331–2 eloquence in, 769 English operas, 332–3 historical writing in, 374 playwrights, 338 novel writers in, 95 theatre verse, 225 number of copies printed, 32 Themistocles (Madden), 319 payment received by Fielding for, 34 Theobald, Lewis, 490 sentimentalism in, 592 Theocritus, 261 Tompkins, J. M. S., 676 Theodosius (Lee), 116 Tom Thumb (Henry Fielding), 320, 331

942

Index

Tonson, Jacob True Widow, A (Otway), 122 collaboration with John Dryden, 41, 153 Tuke, Sir Samuel, 123 success as bookseller, 21 Tunbridge-Miscellany, The, 170 works Tutchin, John, 176 Miscellanies, 263 Tyrannic Love (Dryden), 40, 114 Sylvae, 41, 151 Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 495 Tonson Miscellanies, 171 Tonson Miscellanies (Tonson), 171 Unhappy Favourite, The (Banks), 118 Tour in Ireland, A (Young), 727–8 Union, Act of (1707), 260, 278 Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain, A Universal Beauty (Brooke), 196 (Defoe), 723–5 Universal Gallant, The (Henry Fielding), Town Eclogues (Montagu), 179, 269–70 319 trade discounts, 32–3 Universal Grammar, The (Martin), 396 tragedies, 319, 328 Universal Register Ofﬁce, 70 Tragedies of the Last Age Considered, The Upon Appleton House (Marvell), 154, 279 (Rymer), 476–7 Usefulness of the Stage, The (Dennis), 479 Traitedupo´ eme` epique (Le Bossu), 426 Utrecht, Peace of, 184 translatio imperii, 516 in American colonies, 517–18 Valentinian (Fletcher), 120 in Augustan writings, 516–17 Vanbrugh, John and liberty, 517 The Provok’d Husband, 127, 323 Translation of the Psalms of David, A (Smart), TheProvoked Wife, 126 469 The Relapse, 126 transparencies, 82–3 Vanity of Human Wishes, The (Johnson), 291 Trapp, Joseph, 174 Venice Preserved (Otway), 117 Lectures on Poetry, 179, 472 Venus and Adonis, 434 Praelectiones Poeticae, 472 Virgilian progression model, 183 Thoughts upon the Four Last Things: Death; Verses on the Death of Dr Swift (Swift), 242–6 Heaven; Judgment; Hell, 196 Vico, Giambattista, 429 Traveller, The (Goldsmith), 305 Village, The (Crabbe), 306–7 travel literature in eighteenth century, 707–44 Village Opera, The (Arne), 332 British Isles and Ireland, 720–8 Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A, 414, 574, European travel, 710–14 747 global travel, 728–44 Virgil racial stereotypes in, 731–3 Georgics, 275, 277–8, 279, 281–2 women travellers, 714–20 georgics by, 194 Travels into Several Nations of the World. See John Dryden on, 151–2 Gulliver’s Travels translations, 146–8, 156 Travels toDiscover the Source of the Nile (Bruce), Virgin Unmasked, The (Henry Fielding), 737 318–19 Treatise of Human Nature (Hume), 375, 408 Virtue, Commerce, and History (Pocock), Trenchard, John, 559–60 511 tributes, 226 Virtuoso, The (Otway), 122 Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 254, 295, 576, Virtuous Orphan, The (Collyer), 576 594–5 Voltaire, Franc¸ois-Marie Arouet, 436–7 Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind comparison with Charles Saint-Evremond, (Swift), 253 429 Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London on English literature, 489 (Gay), 179, 194 on English philosophy, 439 Trotter, Catherine, 128 and Enlightenment, 440–1 True-Born Englishman, The (Defoe), 186, 480, on freedom of thought, 437–8 554 political activities, 441 True Patriot (Henry Fielding), 540–1 travel narratives, 439–40

943

Index

Voltaire, Franc¸ois-Marie Arouet (cont.) Washing Day (Barbauld), 216 works Waterland, Daniel, 453 Candide, 441–2 Watson, James, 353–4 La Henriade, 436 Watt, Ian, 87 Letters Concerning the English Nation, 436 Watts, Isaac, 176, 468 Letters on England, 489 Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language, for Vox Stellarum (Moore), 71 the Use of Children, 67 Voyage Round the World (Anson), 729 Horae Lyricae, 467, 468 Hymns, 32 Walker, John, 463 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 468 The Fate of Villainy, 319 The Psalms of David imitated in the Language TheQuaker’s Opera; or, The Escapes of Jack of New Testament, 468 Sheppard, 75 Way of the World, The (Congreve), 127, 337 Waller, Edmund, 171 Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 397, 504 Walpole, Horace Webster, John, 118 The Castle of Otranto, 495, 673–4, 701, Wedlock. A Satyr (Wright), 190 704–5 Welsh Opera, The (Henry Fielding), 130, 320 on comedies, 327 Welsted, Leonard, 196 Gothic novels by, 674–5, 704–5 Werter (Goethe), 233 personal letters, 639–43 Wesley, Charles, 468, 469 on tragedies, 328 Wesley, John, 464 Walpole, Robert publication of autobiographies, criticism of, 191 464–5 Jonathan Swift on, 250 publication of religious writings, opposition to, 248, 499, 559–62 458–9 Warburton, William, 490 works Ward,Ned, 175, 190 A Christian Library, 455 Warton, Joseph A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People blank verse poems, 299 called Methodists, 468 works A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, 468–9 The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature, Wesley, Samuel, 176, 529 273 West, Gilbert, 195 Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, West Indian, The (Cumberland), 327 489 Wharton, Anne, 47–8 Odes on Various Subjects, 309–10 Wharton, Thomas, 273 Warton, Thomas What D’Ye Call It, The (Gay), 50, 80 blank verses by, 300 Whig interpretation of history, 398 on English literary history, 493–4 Whitaker, John, 382 on Gothic literature, 688 Whiteﬁeld, George, 464 historical writing, 381 Whitehead, Paul, 176, 190 on history of English poetry, 617–20 Whitehead, William, 326, 328 on opposition to Robert Walpole, 501 Whole Booke of Psalmes, The (Sternhold, revisionary poetry by, 489 Hopkins, et al.), 469 sonnets by, 314 Whole Duty of Man, The (Allestree), 69, 456 works Wilberforce, William, 575 Essay on Pope, 501 Wild, Robert, 176 Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, Wilkes, John 489 political campaigns, 768 Five Pastoral Eclogues, 273 publication of The North Briton, 563–4 History of English Poetry, 381, 617–18 Wilkes’ Jest Book; or the Merry Patriot, 66 Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser, Wilkins, John 489, 619 on Jewish people, 399 Odes on Various Subjects, 617, 618–19 role in Royal Society, 432

944

Index

works fables by, 228 Natural Religion, 450–1 identity of, 221–2 Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Jonathan Swift’s inﬂuence on, 216 Religion, 450–1 life and literary styles of, 213 Williams, Helen Maria, 213 number of publications by, 209 Julia, 234 reasons for writing poems by, 222–4 odes by, 310 satires by, 188–9 Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester in Scotland, 357–8 epigrams, 38 signiﬁcance of, 231–4 Restoration poems, 165 sonnets by, 231–4 Windsor Forest (Pope), 212 Wood, Anthony, 463 Alexander Pope’s political friends in, 59 Woodman, Thomas, 804 celebration of Peace of Utrecht in, 184, 279 Woodstock Park (Harison), 195 Country ideology in, 505 Woolf, Virginia, 687 Georgic commerce in, 195, 279–80 Wordsworth, William Wine (Gay), 194 on Thomas Gray’s sonnets, 289, 811–12 Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the works Creation (Ray), 397 Lyrical Ballads, 299 Wives’ Excuse, The (Southerne), 126, 128 Thorn, 814–15 Wolley, Hannah, 69 Work andDays(Hesiod), 274, 276 The Compleat Servant-Maid; or The Young Works ofVirgil (Dryden), 34–5, 147 Maiden’s Tutor, 69 Works (Pope), 57 The Gentlewoman’s Companion, 69 World, 544–5 Wollstonecraft, Mary Wotton, William, 427 Mary; or, The WrongsofWoman, 574 Wraxall, Nathanial, 790 travel narratives, 719–20 Wrestling (James), 195 AVindication of the Rights of Woman, 574, Wright, Mehetabel 747, 784–5 To An Infant Expiring Second Day of its Birth, Woman’s Labour, The (Collier), 218–19 216 women dramatists, 128 Wedlock. A Satyr, 190 women novelists, 745–67 writing, social dimension of, 38–42 and access to books, 749–50 Wycherley, William colonial plots by, 765–6 The Country Wife, 124–5 comparison to male authors, 759 The Plain Dealer, 124–5, 225 courtship plots by, 759–63 Wyndham, William, 502 economic status of, 748–9, 750–1 Wynne, Edward, 402 empire plots by, 764–7 feminist vindications in, 747 Yardley Oak (Cowper), 286 innovative plots by, 746–7 Yearsley, Ann, 213 literary authority of, 751–2 Young, Arthur moral ideology of, 748 ATourinIreland, 727–8 patronage of, 750 travel narratives, 708 revision interest in, 745–6 Young, Edward satires by, 752 Conjectures on Original Composition, 816 women poets, 209–34 Love of Fame, 188 in eighteenth century, 210–14 Night Thoughts, 34, 300, 301–2, 467 collections of poems by, 210 Young Gentleman and Lady’s Philosophy domestic situations of, 214–22 (Martin), 413 education of, 218 Young Secretary’s Guide, The (Hill), 69

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