The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

by Damrosch, David; Sherman, Stuart; Manning, Peter; Schotter, Anne; Sharpe, William; Sherman, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780321067647
• ISBN10: 0321067649
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Volume 1C (The Eighteenth Century) of 6-volume splits of parent volumes.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xxi
Political and Religious Orders	xxv
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century	1978	(909)
Samuel Pepys	2003	(27)
The Diary	2004	(26)
[First Entries]	2004	(2)
[The Coronation of Charles II]	2006	(2)
[The Plague Year]	2008	(6)
[The Fire of London]	2014	(4)
Companion Reading John Evelyn: from Kalendarium	2018	(2)
[The Royal Society]	2020	(4)
[Theater and Music]	2024	(1)
[Elizabeth Pepys and Deborah Willett]	2025	(5)
Mary Carleton	2030	(9)
from The Case of Madam Mary Carleton	2030	(9)
Perspectives: The Royal Society and the New Science	2039	(19)
Thomas Sprat	2041	(3)
from The History of the Royal Society of London	2042	(2)
Philosophical Transactions	2044	(3)
from Philosophical Transactions	2044	(3)
Robert Hooke	2047	(7)
from Micrographia	2048	(6)
John Aubrey	2054	(4)
from Brief Lives	2055	(3)
Margaret Cavendish, Dutchess of Newcastle	2058	(16)
Poems and Fancies	2059	(1)
The Poetress's Hasty Resolution	2059	(1)
The Poetress's Petition	2060	(1)
An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book	2060	(1)
The Hunting of the Hare	2060	(3)
from A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life	2063	(5)
Observations upon Experimental Philosophy	2068	(2)
Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses	2068	(2)
The Description of a New Blazing World	2070	(4)
from To the Reader	2070	(1)
[Creating Worlds]	2071	(1)
[Empress, Duchess, Duke]	2072	(1)
Epilogue	2073	(1)
John Dryden	2074	(55)
Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem	2076	(27)
Companion Reading Charles II: His Majesty's Declaration	2101	(2)
Mac Flecknoe	2103	(6)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	2109	(1)
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew	2109	(5)
Alexander's Feast	2114	(5)
Fables Ancient and Modern	2119	(10)
from the Preface	2119	(8)
from The Cock and the Fox	2127	(2)
Aphra Behn	2129	(64)
The Disappointment	2130	(3)
To Lysander, On Some Verses He Writ	2133	(2)
To Lysander at the Music-Meeting	2135	(1)
A Letter to Mr. Creech at Oxford	2136	(2)
To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman	2138	(12)
Aphra Behn in Context: Coterie Writing	2139	(1)
Mary Lady Chudleigh To the Ladies	2139	(1)
To Almystrea	2140	(1)
Anne Finch Countess of Winchilsea The Introduction	2141	(2)
Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia	2143	(1)
A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London	2143	(2)
Mary Leapor The Headache. To Aurelia	2145	(2)
Advice to Sophronia	2147	(1)
An Essay on Woman	2147	(2)
The Epistle of Deborah Dough	2149	(1)
Oroonoko	2150	(43)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester	2193	(11)
Against Constancy	2194	(1)
The Disabled Debauchee	2195	(1)
Song (``Love a woman? You're an ass!'')	2196	(1)
The Imperfect Enjoyment	2196	(2)
Upon Nothing	2198	(1)
A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind	2199	(5)
George Etherege	2204	(76)
The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter	2205	(75)
The Man of Mode in Context: The Collier Controversy	2270	(1)
from A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage	2271	(2)
Jeremy Collier
The Spectator, No. 65	2273	(2)
Richard Steele
from A Defense of ``Sir Fopling Flutter''	2275	(5)
John Dennis
Mary Astell	2280	(9)
from Some Reflections upon Marriage	2280	(9)
Daniel Defoe	2289	(22)
A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal	2291	(13)
A True Relation in Context: Parallel Accounts	2297	(1)
Letter to her Aunt	2298	(1)
L. Lukyn
Letter to John Flamsteed	2299	(4)
Stephen Gray
An Interview with Mrs. Bargrave	2303	(1)
A Journal of the Plague Year	2304	(7)
[At the Burial Pit]	2304	(4)
[Encounter with a Waterman]	2308	(3)
Perspectives: Reading Papers	2311	(51)
News and Comment	2312	(8)
from Mercurius Publicus [Anniversary of the Regicide]	2312	(1)
from The London Gazette [The Fire of London]	2313	(1)
from Daily Courant No. 1 [Editorial Policy]	2314	(1)
from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 4, No. 21 [The New Union]	2315	(2)
Daniel Defoe
from The Craftsman No. 307 [Vampires in Britain]	2317	(3)
Periodical Personae	2320	(12)
from Tatler No. 1 [Introducing Mr. Bickerstaff]	2321	(3)
Richard Steele
from Spectator No. 1 [Introducing Mr. Spectator]	2324	(2)
Joseph Addison
from Female Spectator No. 1 [The Author's Intent]	2326	(2)
from Tatler No. 18 [The News Writers in Danger]	2328	(1)
Richard Steele
from Tatler No. 155 [The Political Upholsterer]	2328	(2)
Joseph Addison
from Spectator No. 10 [The Spectator and Its Readers]	2330	(2)
Joseph Addison
Getting, Spending, Speculating	2332	(9)
Spectator No. 69 [Royal Exchange]	2334	(3)
Joseph Addison
Spectator No. 11 [Inkle and Yarico]	2337	(3)
Richard Steele
from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 1, No. 43 [Weak Foundations]	2340	(1)
Daniel Defoe
Advertisements from the Spectator	2341	(1)
A Bubbler's Medley	2341	(6)
from Historical Register for the Year 1720	2343	(1)
A Song on the South Sea	2344	(1)
Anne Finch
The Hubble Bubbles	2344	(1)
Thomas D'Urfey
from The Weekly Journal	2345	(1)
Thomas Read
from The Craftsman No. 47 [Usbeck to Rica at Ispahan]	2346	(1)
Nicholas Amhurst
Women and Men, Manners and Marriage	2347	(15)
from Tatler No. 25 [Duellists]	2347	(2)
Richard Steele
from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 9, No. 34 [A Duellist's Conscience]	2349	(2)
Daniel Defoe
from The Athenian Mercury	2351	(3)
from Tatler No. 104 [Jenny Distaff Newly Married]	2354	(1)
Richard Steele
Spectator No. 128 [Variety of Temper]	2355	(2)
Joseph Addison
from The Female Spectator, Vol. 1, No. 1 [Seomanthe's Elopement]	2357	(3)
Eliza Haywood
from The Female Spectator, Vol. 2, No. 10 [Women's Education]	2360	(2)
Eliza Haywood
Jonathan Swift	2362	(97)
A Description of the Morning	2364	(1)
A Description of a City Shower	2365	(2)
Stella's Birthday, 1719	2367	(1)
Stella's Birthday, 1727	2368	(2)
The Lady's Dressing Room	2370	(4)
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.	2374	(13)
Journal to Stella	2387	(4)
Letter 10	2387	(4)
Gulliver's Travels	2391	(60)
Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa	2392	(1)
Chapter 5	2392	(5)
Chapter 10	2397	(5)
Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms	2402	(45)
Companion Readings
Letters on Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope	2447	(1)
Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift	2448	(1)
John Gay to Jonathan Swift	2448	(2)
Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope	2450	(1)
``The Prince of Lilliput'' to Stella	2450	(1)
A Modest Proposal	2451	(8)
Companion Reading from Political Arithmetic	2457	(2)
William Petty
Alexander Pope	2459	(98)
An Essay on Criticism	2461	(17)
Windsor-Forest	2478	(11)
The Rape of the Lock	2489	(20)
The Iliad	2509	(3)
from Preface [On Translation]	2509	(2)
from Book 12 [Sarpedon's Speech]	2511	(1)
Eloisa to Abelard	2512	(8)
Epistle 4. To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington	2520	(6)
An Essay on Man	2526	(9)
Epistle 1	2526	(1)
To the Reader	2526	(1)
The Design	2527	(1)
Argument	2528	(7)
An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot	2535	(11)
The Dunciad	2546	(11)
Book the Fourth	2546	(1)
[The Goddess Coming in Her Majesty]	2547	(1)
[The Geniuses of the Schools]	2548	(1)
[Young Gentlemen Returned from Travel]	2549	(1)
[The Minute Philosophers and the Consummation of All]	2550	(7)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	2557	(14)
The Turkish Embassy Letters	2558	(5)
To Lady---[On the Turkish Baths]	2558	(2)
To Lady Mar [On Turkish Dress]	2560	(3)
Letter to Lady Bute [On Her Granddaughter]	2563	(2)
Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to her Husband	2565	(2)
The Lover: A Ballad	2567	(1)
The Reasons That Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room	2568	(3)
John Gay	2571	(45)
The Beggar's Opera	2573	(43)
William Hogarth	2616	(10)
A Rake's Progress	2618	(8)
Perspectives: Mind and God	2626	(31)
Isaac Newton	2627	(3)
from Letter to Richard Bentley	2628	(2)
John Locke	2630	(5)
from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	2631	(4)
Isaac Watts	2635	(5)
A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy	2635	(1)
The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders	2636	(1)
Against Idleness and Mischief	2637	(1)
Man Frail, and God Eternal	2638	(1)
Miracles Attending Israel's Journey	2639	(1)
Joseph Addison	2640	(1)
Spectator No. 465	2640	(1)
George Berkeley	2641	(3)
from Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous	2642	(2)
David Hume	2644	(6)
from A Treatise of Human Nature	2644	(3)
from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding	2647	(3)
Christopher Smart	2650	(3)
from Jubilate Agno	2650	(3)
William Cowper	2653	(4)
Light Shining out of Darkness	2654	(1)
from The Task	2654	(1)
The Cast-away	2655	(2)
James Thomson	2657	(20)
Winter. A Poem	2658	(4)
[Autumn Evening and Night]	2658	(3)
[Winter Night]	2661	(1)
The Seasons	2662	(4)
from Autumn	2662	(4)
Rule, Britannia	2666	(11)
The Seasons in Context: Poems of Nightfall and Night	2667	(1)
A Nocturnal Reverie	2668	(1)
Anne Finch
from The Complaint	2669	(2)
Edward Young
Ode to Evening	2671	(2)
William Collins
Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson	2673	(1)
from The Task	2674	(3)
William Cowper
Thomas Gray	2677	(12)
Letters To Horace Walpole, 16 April 1734	2678	(1)
To Richard West, December 1736	2679	(1)
To Horace Walpole, 12 June 1750	2680	(1)
To Horace Walpole, 11 February 1751	2680	(1)
To Horace Walpole, 20 February 1751	2681	(1)
Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West	2682	(1)
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College	2682	(2)
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes	2684	(1)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	2685	(4)
Samuel Johnson	2689	(76)
The Vanity of Human Wishes	2692	(8)
A Short Song of Congratulation	2700	(1)
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet	2701	(1)
The Rambler
No. 4 [On Fiction]	2702	(3)
No. 5 [On Spring]	2705	(3)
No. 60 [On Biography]	2708	(3)
No. 170 [On Misella, a Prostitute]	2711	(2)
No. 171 [Misella Continues]	2713	(3)
No. 207 [Beginnings, Middles, and Ends]	2716	(3)
from A Review of Soame Jenyns' A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil	2719	(5)
The Idler
No. 31 [On Idleness]	2724	(1)
No. 32 [On Sleep]	2725	(2)
No. 84 [On Autobiography]	2727	(2)
No. 97 [On Travel Writing]	2729	(1)
A Dictionary of the English Language	2730	(14)
from Preface	2731	(6)
[Some Entries]	2737	(7)
Rasselas	2744	(9)
[The History of Imlac]	2745	(8)
The Plays of William Shakespeare	2753	(12)
from Preface	2754	(8)
[Selected Notes on Othello]	2762	(3)
Travel Writing	2765	(31)
Letter to Hester Thrale (21 September 1773)	2765	(5)
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	2770	(8)
Anoch	2770	(3)
Glensheals	2773	(1)
The Highlands	2774	(3)
Glenelg	2777	(1)
from Skye. Armidel	2778	(1)
Lives of the Poets	2778	(10)
from The Life of Milton	2779	(2)
from The Life of Pope	2781	(7)
from Annals [Infancy and Childhood]	2788	(4)
Letters
To Lord Chesterfield (7 February 1755)	2792	(1)
To Hester Thrale (19 June 1783)	2793	(2)
To Hester Thrale Piozzi (2 July 1784)	2795	(1)
To Hester Thrale Piozzi (8 July 1784)	2795	(1)
James Boswell	2796	(33)
London Journal	2797	(8)
[A Scot in London]	2797	(3)
[Louisa]	2800	(5)
[First Meeting with Johnson]	2805	(1)
An Account of My Last Interview with David Hume, Esq.	2805	(4)
from A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Dr. Samuel Johnson	2809	(4)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.	2813	(16)
[Introduction; Boswell's Method]	2813	(2)
[Conversations about Hume]	2815	(2)
[Dinner with Wilkes]	2817	(6)
[Conversations at Streatham and the Club]	2823	(6)
Hester Salusbury Thrale Piozzi	2829	(14)
The Family Book	2830	(5)
[On Her Daughter's Progress]	2830	(1)
[On the Death of Her Son]	2831	(3)
[On Her Marriage and Household]	2834	(1)
Thraliana	2835	(8)
[First Entries]	2835	(3)
[The Death of Henry Thrale; Marriage to Gabriel Piozzi]	2838	(4)
[The Death of Johnson]	2842	(1)
Oliver Goldsmith	2843	(14)
The Deserted Village	2844	(13)
Companion Readings
from The Village	2854	(2)
George Crabbe
from The Parish Register	2856	(1)
George Crabbe
Perspectives: Landscape, Pleasure, Power	2857	(30)
Sir John Denham	2858	(9)
Cooper's Hill	2859	(8)
Joseph Addison	2867	(5)
from Spectator No. 412 [The Great, the Uncommon, the Beautiful]	2867	(2)
Spectator No. 414 [Nature, Art, Gardens]	2869	(3)
Alexander Pope	2872	(2)
Letter to Edward Blount [Grotto and Garden]	2872	(2)
Horace Walpole	2874	(1)
Letter to Sir Horace Mann [The Garden at Strawberry Hill]	2874	(1)
Edmund Burke	2875	(7)
from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful	2875	(7)
Thomas Gray	2882	(1)
from A Journal-Letter to Thomas Wharton [The Sublime and the Beautiful in the Lake District]	2882	(1)
William Gilpin	2883	(4)
from On Picturesque Travel	2884	(3)
Money, Weights, and Measures	2887	(2)
Glossary of Literary and Cultural Terms	2889	(24)
Bibliography	2913	(12)
Credits	2925	(2)
Index	2927