Enlightenment and English Literature : Prose and Poetry of the 18th Century

by John L. Mahoney

• ISBN13: 9781577660811
• ISBN10: 1577660811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Waveland Press

Table of Contents

General Introduction	1	(14)
Alexander Pope
Introduction	15	(98)
from Pastorals	29	(1)
Autumn: The Third Pastoral, or Hylas and AEgon	29	(1)
Windsor Forest	30	(5)
An Essay on Criticism	35	(10)
The Rape of the Lock	45	(10)
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady	55	(1)
Eloisa to Abelard	56	(4)
Essay to Man	60	(1)
Epistle I	60	(4)
Epistle II	64	(3)
Epistle III	67	(4)
Epistle IV	71	(6)
from Moral Essays	77	(1)
Epistle II	77	(3)
Epistle IV	80	(4)
from Satires	84	(1)
Prologue--Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot	84	(5)
The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace	89	(3)
The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace	92	(6)
from The Dunciad	98	(1)
Book the First	98	(5)
Book the Fourth	103	(10)
Jonathan Swift
Introduction	113	(82)
from A Tale of a Tub	123	(38)
The Battle of the Books	161	(13)
An Argument Against the Abolishing of Christianity in England	174	(6)
A Modest Proposal	180	(5)
A Description of the Morning	185	(1)
A Description of a City Shower	185	(1)
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.	186	(9)
Samuel Johnson • James Boswell
Introduction	195	(12)
Samuel Johnson
The Vanity of Human Wishes	207	(4)
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet	211	(1)
from The Rambler
No. 4, March 31, 1750	212	(2)
No. 60, October 13, 1750	214	(2)
No. 117, April 30, 1751	216	(3)
No. 134, June 29, 1751	219	(2)
No. 148, August 17, 1751	221	(2)
No. 154, September 7, 1751	223	(2)
No. 155, September 10, 1751	225	(2)
No. 183, December 17, 1751	227	(1)
No. 184, December 21, 1751	228	(2)
No. 208, March 14, 1752	230	(2)
Preface to Shakespeare	232	(22)
from The Lives of the Poets	254	(1)
from The Life of Pope	254	(12)
from The Life of Gray	266	(2)
from The Life of Milton	268	(9)
from The Life of Cowley	277	(2)
from The Life of Savage	279	(2)
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia	281	(48)
James Boswell
from The Life of Samuel Johnson	329	(36)
Edmund Burke
Introduction	365	(82)
from A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful	370	(14)
from Speech on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies	384	(30)
from Reflections on the Revolution in France	414	(33)
A Selection of Key Eighteenth-Century Minor Poetry
Introduction	447	(4)
John Dyer
Grongar Hill	451	(2)
James Thomson
from The Seasons	453	(1)
Winter	454	(13)
Isaac Watts
The Day of Judgment	467	(1)
Edward Young
from The Complaint, or Night Thoughts	468	(1)
Night I	468	(5)
Robert Blair
from the Grave	473	(5)
Mark Akenside
from The Pleasures of Imagination	478	(1)
Book the First	478	(7)
Joseph Warton
The Enthusiast: or, The Lover of Nature	485	(3)
William Collins
Ode on the Poetical Character	488	(1)
Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland	489	(4)
Thomas Gray
Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West	493	(1)
Ode on a Distant prospect of Eton College	493	(1)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	494	(2)
The Progress of Poesy	496	(2)
The Bard	498	(2)
Oliver Goldsmith
The Traveller	500	(6)
The Deserted Village	506	(6)
Thomas Chatterton
An Excelente Balade of Charitie	512	(2)
William Cowper
from Olney Hymns	514	(1)
Praise for the Fountain Opened	514	(1)
The Happy Change	514	(1)
The Shrubbery	514	(1)
The Castaway	515	(1)
Robert Burns
The Cotter's Saturday Night	516	(3)
To a Mouse	519	(1)
To a Mountain Daisy	520	(1)
Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous	520	(1)
Of A' the Airts	521	(1)
Afton Water	522	(1)
A Red, Red Rose	522	(1)
For A' That and A' That	522	(1)
George Crabbe
from The Village	523	(6)
A Selection of Critical and Philosophical Prose
Introduction	529	(4)
John Locke
from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	533	(1)
Book I	533	(2)
Book II	535	(14)
Joseph Addison
from The Spectator	549	(1)
True Wit [No. 62, May 11, 1711]	549	(3)
Defects in Paradise Lost [No. 297, February 9, 1712]	552	(2)
The Pleasure of the Imagination, I [No. 411, June 21, 1712]	554	(2)
The Pleasure of the Imagination, II [No. 412, June 23, 1712]	556	(2)
The Pleasure of the Imagination, III [No. 413, June 24, 1712]	558	(1)
The Pleasure of the Imagination, IV [No. 416, June 27, 1712]	559	(2)
The Pleasure of the Imagination, VIII [No. 418, June 30, 1712]	561	(2)
Thomas Rymer
from short View of Tragedy	563	(1)
from Chapter VII, Othello	563	(5)
Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury
from Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times	568	(1)
The Moralists, A Philosophical Rhapsody	568	(4)
Soliloquy: or Advice to the Author	572	(4)
Joseph Warton
from an Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope	576	(5)
Thomas Warton
from Observations on the Fairy Queen	581	(6)
Edward Young
from Conjectures on Original Composition	587	(2)
David Hume
from Four Dissertations	589	(1)
Of Tragedy	589	(3)
Of the Standard of Taste	592	(10)
Richard Hurd
from Letters on Chivalry and Romance	602	(2)
William Duff
from An Essay on Original Genius	604	(9)
Sir Joshua Reynolds
from Discourses on Art	613	(1)
from Discourse VI	613	(1)
Discourse XIII	614	(9)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines	623