PHILIP DODDRIDGE
SURSUM (1735?)
WILLIAM SOMERVILLE
THE CHASE (1735), BOOK II, ll. 119-171
HENRY BROOKE
UNIVERSAL BEAUTY (1735), BOOK III, ll. 1-8, 325-364;
V, 282-297, 330-339, 361-384
PROLOGUE TO GUSTAVUS VASA (1739)
CONRADE, A FRAGMENT (WR. 1743?, PUBL. 1778), ll. 1-26
MATTHEW GREEN
THE SPLEEN (1737), ll. 89-110, 624-642
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
THE SCHOOLMISTRESS (1737), STANZAS 6, 8, 18-20, 23, 28
WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY (1764)
JONATHAN SWIFT
THE BEASTS' CONFESSION (1738), ll. 1-128, 197-220
VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT (1739),
ll. 39-66, 299-338, 455-482
CHARLES WESLEY
FOR CHRISTMAS-DAY (1739)
FOR EASTER-DAY (1739)
IN TEMPTATION: JESU, LOVER OF MY SOUL (1740)
WRESTLING JACOB (1742)
ROBERT BLAIR
THE GRAVE (1743), ll. 28-44, 56-84, 750-767
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD
ON RIDICULE (1743), ll. 27-52, 153-171, 225-226, 233-236, 287-301
THE ENTHUSIAST (1754)
MARK AKENSIDE
THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION (1744), BOOK I, ll. 34-43, 113-124;
III, 515-535, 568-633
JOSEPH WARTON
THE ENTHUSIAST; OR, THE LOVER OF NATURE (1744),
ll. 1-20, 26-38, 87-103, 167-244
JOHN GILBERT COOPER
THE POWER OF HARMONY (1745), BOOK II, ll. 35-51, 125-140, 330-343
WILLIAM COLLINS
ODE WRITTEN IN 1746 (1746)
ODE TO EVENING (1746)
ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER (1746)
THE PASSIONS (1746)
ODE ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS
(WR. 1749, PUBL. 1788)
THOMAS WARTON
THE PLEASURES OF MELANCHOLY (1747), ll. 28-69, 153-165, 196-210
THE GRAVE OF KING ARTHUR (1777), ll. 31-74
SONNET WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF DUGDALE'S MONASTICON (1777)
SONNET WRITTEN AT STONEHENGE (1777)
SONNET TO THE RIVER LODON (1777)
THOMAS GRAY
AN ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE (1747)
HYMN TO ADVERSITY (1748)
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD (1751)
THE PROGRESS OF POESY (1757)
THE BARD (1757)
THE FATAL SISTERS (1768)
ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE (1775)
SAMUEL JOHNSON
THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES (1749), ll. 99-118,
133-160, 189-220, 289-308, 341-366
RICHARD JAGO
THE GOLDFINCHES (1753), STANZAS 3-10
JOHN DALTON
A DESCRIPTIVE POEM (1755), ll. 222-227, 238-257, 265-272, 279-290
JANE ELLIOT
THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST (WR. 1756)
CHARLES CHURCHILL
THE ROSCIAD (1761), ll. 963-986
THE GHOST (1762), BOOK II, ll. 653-676
JAMES MACPHERSON
"TRANSLATIONS" FROM OSSIAN
FINGAL, AN EPIC POEM (1762), BOOK VI, §§ 10-14
THE SONGS OF SELMA (1762), §§ 4-8, 20-21
CHRISTOPHER SMART
A SONG TO DAVID (1763), ll. 451-516
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
THE TRAVELLER (1764), ll. 51-64, 239-280, 423-438
THE DESERTED VILLAGE (1770)
RETALIATION (1774), ll. 29-42, 61-78, 93-124, 137-146
JAMES BEATTIE
THE MINSTREL, BOOK I (1771), STANZAS 4-5, 16, 22, 32-33, 52-55
LADY ANNE LINDSAY
AULD ROBIN GRAY (WR. 1771)
JEAN ADAMS
THERE'S NAE LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE (c. 1771)
ROBERT FERGUSSON
THE DAFT DAYS (1772)
ANONYMOUS
ABSENCE (c. 1773?)
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