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Eighteenth-century English labouring-class poets. Volume I, 1700-1740
Title
Eighteenth-century English labouring-class poets. Volume I, 1700-1740 / edited by William Christmas.
ISBN
0429350171
1000741753
1000744949
1000748138
9780429350177
9781000741759
9781000744941
9781000748130
9781138752894
Publication
London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1288 pages)
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"First published 2003 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited."
Includes indexes.
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Biographical / Historical Note
William Christmas,
Summary
Poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were popular and important in their day but few are available today. This is a collection of some of those poems from the 18th century.
Variant and related titles
1700-1740
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Contents
Contents of Volume I
Acknowledgements
General Editor's introduction
Introduction
Chronology
Note on the Text
EDWARD WARD (1667
1731)
From A Journej to He/k or, a Visit paid to the Devil. A Poem (1700)
The Preface
Part I. Canto I [The Poet Visits Hades]
Part I. Canto VI [The Physicians in Hades]
Part 11. Canto VI [The Poets in Hades]
Part IL Canto VII [The Printers and the Booksellers in
Hades]
From A Collection of Historical and State Poems, Sayrs, Songs, and Epigrams (1717)
The Character of a certain rattling Whig
The Tobacco Sot. An Epigram
Truth without Dissembling: or, A Merry Ballad on the Times
From The Delights of the Bottle: or, The Comp leaf Vintner (1720)
Canto II: The Compleat Vintner
Canto III: The Description of a Tavern
JANE HOLT (ft 1682?-1717)
A Fairj Tale Insøib'd, to the Honourable Mn. W___With other Poems (1717)
[A Fairy Tale] Sent with a pair of China Basons
To the Ilonourable Mrs. Egcrton on her Marriage, February the 16th, 1717
To Colin from a Masquerade
In the Habit of a Gipsy to the Right Honourable the LadyD
To a Lady from the Country in 1709
On a Bird
To the Honourable Mrs. Skipwith from the Isle of Ely
A Letter to a Lady
To Mr. Wren my Valentine Six Year Old
HENRY NELSON (fl. 1725-29)
A Poem, In the Honour of the Antient and Loyal Socitey of the Journy-Men-Taylors, who are to Dine at the King's-Inns, on Monday the 25th Inst, Juy, 1726
Poem on the Procession of Journeymen Taylors, July the 28th, 1729
EDWARD CHICKEN (1698-1747)
The Collier's Wedding. A Poem [c1729]
ROBERT DODSLEY (1703-1764)
Servitude [1729]
The Preface
Servitude
From A Muse in Livery: or, the Footman's Miscellany (1732)
[Dedication]
Effigies Authoris: or, the Mind of the Frontispiece
Ode
An Epistle to Stephen Duck
The Wish
The Footman. An Epistle to my Friend Mr. Wright
The Petition
An Epistle to my Friend J.B.
Religion. A Simile
Upon finding the two following lines transcrib'd by a Lady
The Guardian Angel
The Advice
An Epistle to my Friend Mr. H
An Epistle to Mr. Pope, Occasion d by his Essay on Man (1734)
ANONYMOUS (c. 1730)
Poem desptive of the Manners of the Clothiers, wiitten about the jear 1730
STEPHEN DUCK (1705?-56)
From Poems on Several Subjects, seventh edition (1730) Some Account of the Author's life
Poems on Several Subjects, first edition (1730)
The Shunamite
The Thresher's Labour
On Poverty
[Untitled Epistle]
From Poems on Several Occasions (1736) On Richmond Park, and Royal Gardens Occasion'd by a Dispute with a Lady
A Description of a Journey to Marlborough, Bath, Portsmouth, &c.
An Epigram
The Vision (1737)
Evey Man in his Own Way (1741)
JOHN BANCKS (1709-51)
From The Weaver's Miscellany: or, Poems On Several Subjects (1730)
The Introduction
To Mr. D.G. An Essay
Lycon. A Pastoral
The Happy Man. Made at a Friend's Desire
The Wish
Damon. A Tale
A Resolution
To Delia, upon Thyrsis's leaving her
Taffy and Shonny. A Tale
To Delia, offended at his calling a Kiss no Favour
To Mr. John Winship at Greenwich, Excuse for not coming to see him
From Poems on Several Occasions: Consisting of Tales, Epistles, Songs,
Odes, Epigrams, and other Miscellaneous Pieces, upon subjects of
Humour, and Gallantry [1733]
Poetical Knighthood. An Epistle
A Caution to Critics
The Diurnal, An Epistle to Mr. B.G.
Fragment of an Ode to Boreas, made while the Author sold Books in an Alley
From Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose (1738)
The Progress of Petitioning; in Three Epistles to Mr. Pope. To which is added, a Fourth Epistle, containing the Author's Picture
JOHN FRIZZLE (ft 1733)
An Irish Miller, to Mr. Stephen Duck
MARY MASTERS (1694?-1771)
From Poems on Several Occasion5 (1733)
The Preface
To a Gentleman who questioned my being the Author of the foregoing Verses
On Beauty
Maria, in Affliction
A Journey from Otley to Wakefield
To Clemene, on her Birth-day
To my Self
The Vanity of Human Life
From Familiar L4ter.c and Poems on Several Occasions (1755)
Preface
On the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour
On Friendship
My Love describ'd to Camilla
The various Pursuits of Mankind. Hot B. i. Ode I. To Maecaenas
An Extempore Thought
On the Peace
To the Author of the Epistle to Mrs Masters and her Readers
Short Ejaculations
[Untitled I], from Letter XVIII, To [Untitled II], from Letter XVIII, To
PETER ARAM (1667-1735)
Studley-Park. A Poem (1733)
[Preface]
[Dedication]
Studley-Park
ROBERT TATERSAL (fl. 1734-5)
From The Bricklajerr Miscellany: or, Poems on Several Subjects (1734) [Dedication]
To the New Year, 1733
On a Bee. Wrote Extempore, at the Request of some Scholars of Baleol College, Oxford
On Cambridge, A Panegyrick
That we should not regret our Misfortunes, but bear them with a calm and even Temper
To Death, 1733
To a Young Lady
To Stephen Duck, The famous Threshing Poet
The Bricklayers Labours
The Author's Wish
The BrickJayer Miscellany. The Second Part. Containing Poems on Several Subjects (1735)
[Dedication]
The Introduction, to Mr. Stephen Duck To Mr. George Ba
bee, on the Death of his Paramour, Mrs. Jane He_I)?
Temperance
The Folly and Danger of immoderate Love
Fortune, as it is represented in the Fable of Cebes
To Mrs. M.S k, on her faithless Inconstancy
The Way of the World
The Humours of the Club of Bacchus
Elegy on a Bricklayer; written by himself
A Paraphrase on the 104th Psalm
MARY COLLIER (1688?-1762)
The Woman r Labour: An Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck, in answer to his late Poem, called The Tbresher's Labour. To whith are added, The Three Wise Sentences, taken from The First Book of Esdras, Cb. iii. and IV(1739)
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The Woman's Labour: To Mr. Stephen Duck The Three Wise Sentences, From the First Book of Esdras, Chap. III. and TV
From Poems, on Several Occasions (1762)
Some Remarks of the Author's Life drawn by herself An EpistoLary Answer To an Exciseman, Who doubted her being the Author of the Washerwoman's Labour
The Happy Husband, and the Old Batchelor. A Dialogue A Gentleman's Request to the Author on Reading The Happy Husband and the Old Batchelor
The First and Second Chapters of the First Book of Samuel Versified
An Elegy Upon Stephen Duck
An Elegy, on the much lamented Death of Norton Powlett Esq; Who departed this life at Petersfield June the 4th 1741
Spectator Vol. the Fifth. Numb. 375
Versified On the Marriage of George the Third. Wrote in the Seventy-Second Year of her Age
Notes
Thematic Index
Index of First Lines
Index of Titles.
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