The English Poets

THE, ENGLISH POETS - SELECTIONS WITH CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS BY VARIOUS WRITERS AND A GENERAL INTRODUCTION BY MATTHEW ARNOLD EDITED BY THOMAS HUMPHRY WARD, M. A. Late Fellow of Brascnose College, Oxford VOL. Ill THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1921 CONTENTS. PAGB JOSEPH ADDISON 1672-171 Extract from The Letter from Italy 3, , The Campaign 4 WILLIAM WALSH 1663-1708 . Edmund W. Gosse 6 To His Book 1691 8 Sonnet ., . g The Despairing Lover . . WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670-1729 Austin Dobson ro Amoret .., .. 12 Song . 12 SIR SAMUEL GARTH 1660-1718 . . . . George Saintsbury 13 Extracts from The Dispensary 14 MATTHEW PRIOR 1664-1721 Austin Dobson 17 The Secretary ...,20 To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old 21 A Song To a Lady 22 An Ode . . . 33 Cupid Mistaken . 24 A Better Answer, ., 34 A Simile, . 35 Epigram .... 26 Another ...., ... 96 For my own Tombstone ., , . 26 LADY WINCHILSEA 1660 about.-i ao, . Edmund W. Gosse 27 To the Nightingale, . . . . . 39 The Tree ., ., 30 A Nocturnal Reverie 31 VOL. III. vi CONTENTS FAOK Extract from An Ode to the Spleen . . . 32 In Answer to Mr. Pope ... 33 JONATHAN SWIFT 1667-1745 .... Prof. y. Nichol 34 A Description of the Morning . 39 Horace, Book IV, Ode IX. Addressed to Archbishop King, 1718 . 39 Apollos Edict. Occasioned by News from Parnassus ... 40 Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa 42 The Beasts Confession ......... 44 The Day of Judgement 50 Extracts from Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift v . .50 ALEXANDER POPE i688-j 744 Mark Pattison 55 Extract from The Essay on Criticism .... 70 The Rape of the Lock, Canto II ... .... 73 M Canto III ....... 77 Extract from The Iliad, Book VIII ....... 8a Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 83 Extracts from the Essay onMan Book I 85 Book IV 91 Moral Essays, I .......... 97 Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 103 From the First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace imitated. To Augustus 114 Extract from the Epilogue to the Satires ., . ., x3 M from the Dunciad, Book IV ...... ia6 Conclusion of the Dunciad, .,127 AMBROSE PHILIPS 1671-1749 .... Edmund W Gosse 130 Extract from the Ode to Miss Carteret 131 To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her mothers arms .... 132 THOMAS PARNELL 1679-1718 .... Edmund W. Gossc 133 Extract from A Night-Piece on Death ..... 235 A Hymn to Contentment 136 The Hermit 138 JOHN GAY 1688-1732 Austin Dobson 145 Extract from The Shepherds Week ....... 148 A Ballad 149 The Hare with many Friends 150 Black-eyed Susan . 152 THOMAS TICKELL 1686-1740 .... Edmund W. Gosse 154 To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison, . 156 CONTENTS. vii PAGE ALLAN RAMSAY 1686-1758 Prof. W. Minto 159 Extracts from The Gentle Shepherd Jenny and Peggy ..., , ., .. 163 Patie and Peggy 165 Through the Wood, Laddie 166 An thou were my am thing . 167 JAMES THOMSON 1700-1748 George Saintsbury 168 Extracts from The Seasons A Snow Scene, from Winter 173 The Sheep-washing, from Summer 174 The Coming of the Rain, from Spring, ., .. 175 Storm in Harvest, from Autumn 176 To her I love 178 Extracts from the Castle of Indolence. Book I .... 178 JOHN ARMSTRONG 1709-1779 .... George Saintsbury 183 Extract from The Art of Preserving Health, Book III ... 185 Book IV ... 185 Taste, an Epistle to a Young Critic .... 187 WILLIAM SOMERVILLE 1677-1742 ., . Edmund W Gosse 189 Extract from The Chase, Book I ....... 191, , Book II, ..... 192 MATTHEW GREEN 1696-1737 ..... Austin Dobson 194 Extracts from The Spleen 197 On Barclays Apologyfor the Quakers 203 JOHN DYER i698-i7S8 . Prof. E. Dowden 206 Grongar Hill . 210 Extracts from The Fleece, Book I 214 ROBERT BLAIR 1699-1746 George Saintsbury 217 Extracts from The Grave Self Murder 219 Omnes eodem cogimur 219 The Resurrection, .., , , .. 221 EDWARD YOUNG 1684-1765 ..... George Saintsbury 222 Extract from The Last Day, Book I ...... 225 The Old Coquette from Satire V, on Women . . . .225 Extracts from Night thoughts Procrastination, from Night I .........

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