Students of poetical history will find it illuminating to read the passages in chronological order (irrespective of authorship); and in order to facilitate this method I have given in the table of contents the date of each poem. E. B. CONTENTS JOHN POMFRET THE CHOICE (1700) DANIEL DEFOE THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN (1701), ll. 119-132, 189-228, 312-321 A HYMN TO THE PILLORY (1703), STANZAS 1, 3, 5-6, 28-30 JOSEPH ADDISON THE CAMPAIGN (1704), ll. 259-292 DIVINE ODE (1712) MATTHEW PRIOR TO A CHILD OF QUALITY (1704) TO A LADY (1704) THE DYING HADRIAN TO HIS SOUL (1704) A BETTER ANSWER (1718) BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE THE GRUMBLING HIVE (1705, 1714), ll. 1-6, 26-52, 149-156, 171-186, 198-239, 327-336, 377-408 ISAAC WATTS THE HAZARD OF LOVING THE CREATURES (1706) THE DAY OF JUDGMENT (1709) O GOD, OUR HELP IN AGES PAST (1719) A CRADLE HYMN (1719) ALEXANDER POPE AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM (1711), ll. 1-18, 46-51, 68-91, 118-180, 215-423, 560-577, 612-642 THE RAPE OF THE LOCK (1714), CANTOS II AND III TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD, BOOK VI (1717), ll. 562-637 AN ESSAY ON MAN (1733-34), EPISTLE I; 11, 1-18; IV, 93-204, 361-398 MORAL ESSAYS, EPISTLE II (1735), ll. 1-16, 87-180, 199-210, 231-280 EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT (1735), ll. 1-68, 115-214, 261-304, 334-367, 389-419 FIRST EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED (1737), ll. 23-138, 161-296, 338-347 EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES (1738), DIALOGUE II, ll. 208-223 THE DUNCIAD (1728-43), BOOK i, ll. 28-84, 107-134; iv. 627-656 LADY WINCHILSEA TO THE NIGHTINGALE (1713) A NOCTURNAL REVERIE (1713) JOHN GAY RURAL SPORTS (1713), ll. 91-106 THE SHEPHERD'S WEEK: THURSDAY; OR, THE SPELL (1714), ll. 5-14, 49-60, 83-136 TRIVIA (1716), BOOK II, ll. 25-64 SWEET WILLIAM'S FAREWELL TO BLACK-EYED SUSAN (1720) MY OWN EPITAPH (1720) SAMUEL CROXALL THE VISION (1715), ll. 41-56 THOMAS TICKELL ON THE DEATH OF MR. ADDISON (1721), ll. 9-46, 67-82 THOMAS PARNELL A NIGHT-PIECE ON DEATH (1721), ll. 1-70 A HYMN OF CONTENTMENT (1721) ALLAN RAMSAY THE GENTLE SHEPHERD: PATIE AND ROGER (1721), ll. 1-52, 59-68, 135-202 AMBROSE PHILIPS TO MISS CHARLOTTE PULTENEY, IN HER MOTHER'S ARMS (1725) JOHN DYER GRONGAR HILL (1726) GEORGE BERKELEY VERSES ON THE PROSPECT OF PLANTING ARTS AND LEARNING IN AMERICA (WR. c. 1726; PUBL. 1752) JAMES THOMSON THE SEASONS (1726-30) WINTER, ll. 223-358 SUMMER, ll. 1630-1645 SPRING, ll. 1-113, 846-876 AUTUMN, ll. 950-1003 A HYMN RULE, BRITANNIA (1740) THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE (1748), STANZAS 1-11, 20, 57-59 EDWARD YOUNG LOVE OF FAME: SATIRES V-VI (1727-28), SATIRE V, ll. 227-246, 469-484; VI, 393-462 NIGHT-THOUGHTS (1742-45), NIGHT I, ll. 68-90; III, 325-342; IV, 201-233; VII, 253-323 ANONYMOUS THE HAPPY SAVAGE (1732) SOAME JENYNS AN ESSAY ON VIRTUE (1734), ll. 148-165, 170-183, 189-199