The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke Volume 1: The Early Writings

by Burke, Edmund; McLoughlin, T. O.; Boulton, James T.; Langford, Paul; Todd, William B.

• ISBN13: 9780198224150
• ISBN10: 019822415X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-18
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Volume 1 of the Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke presents Burke's early literary writings up to 1765, and before he became a key political figure. It is the first fully annotated and critical edition, with comprehensive notes and an authoritative introduction. The writings published here introduce readers to Burke's early attempts at a public voice.

Table of Contents

List of Short Titles	xiii
Introduction	1	(22)
Textual Procedures	23	(2)
The Texts
Miscellaneous Verse and Prose	25	(1)
`On Doctor Taylor' 1745	26	(1)
`To John Damer Esq' 1747	27	(3)
`To Dr H---n' 6--19 February 1747/8	30	(8)
`On fortunatos nimium, &c. paraphras'd' 1748	38	(6)
`On a Bad Poet's Turning Critick' 1748	44	(1)
`The Muse Divorced' November 1750?	45	(4)
`An Epistle to Doctor Nugent' 1752?	49	(5)
`Phidippus' post-1750	54	(2)
`A Funeral Oration on the Inspector to be Pronounced in the Bedford Coffee House by Mr Macklin' 1752?	56	(3)
`The Character of [Jane Burke]' post-1757?	59	(2)
`The Character of a Fine Gentleman' n.d.	61	(4)
The Reformer 1748	65	(64)
A Vindication of Natural Society 1756	129	(56)
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 1757	185	(136)
Fragment: An Essay towards an History of the Laws of England c. 1757	321	(11)
An Essay towards an Abridgment of the English History 1757--?	332	(221)
Hints for an Essay on the Drama c. 1761	553	(11)
Appendix A: List of Burke's Poems	564	(2)
Appendix B: List of Burke's Essays and `Characters'	566	(1)
Appendix C: Collation of Texts	567	(4)
Index	571