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9780874139389

The Poems Of Patrick Delany Comprising Also Poems About Him by Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, and Other Friends and Enemies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780874139389

  • ISBN10:

    0874139384

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-06-01
  • Publisher: University of Delaware Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $96.00

Table of Contents

Preface 11(6)
Abbreviations and Sources Frequently Cited 17(4)
Introduction 21(22)
Note on the Text 43(4)
Biography and Background 47(2)
Principal Prose Works by Delany 49(4)
The Poems
To Thomas Sheridan
53(1)
My Pedagogue Dear, I Read with Surprise (Sheridan)
54(1)
On Dan Jackson's Picture Cut in Paper
55(2)
On the Same (Sheridan)
57(1)
Another Picture of Dan (Sheridan)
57(1)
Another (Rochfort)
58(1)
In Vindication of Poor Dan's Picture (Swift or Jackson)
59(2)
Assist Me, My Muse, Whilst I Labor to Limn Him (Delany?)
61(2)
from To Mr. Delany (Swift)
63(2)
Verses to Dean Swift on His Birthday
65(2)
From My Much Honored Friend at Heldelville (Delany or Richard Helsham)
67(1)
Upon the Author (Delany or Sheridan)
68(2)
Written on the Deanery Window of St. Patrick's, Dublin (with Esther Johnson)
70(2)
Another
72(1)
Apollo to the Dean (Swift)
72(5)
News from Parnassus
77(3)
An Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of Mr. Demar, the Famous Rich Man, Who Died on the 6th of This Inst. July, 1720 (Delany, with Swift, Sheridan, and Esther Johnson)
80(4)
On Gaulstown House, the Seat of George Rochfort, Esq.
84(1)
To the Right Honorable Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, and Viscount Valencia, September 25th, 1721
85(1)
A Description of Doctor Delany's Villa (Sheridan)
86(3)
Verses Written on One of the Windows at Delville (Sheridan?)
89(1)
On the Great Buried Bottle
90(1)
Epitaph
91(1)
To the Duchess of Grafton
91(2)
Sent by Dr. Delany to Dr. Swift, In Order to be Admitted to Speak to Him
93(1)
Upon Seeing Himself in the Glass
94(1)
The Birth of Manly Virtue, from Callimachus
94(8)
A Poem Inscribed to the Author of The Birth of Manly Virtue (Anonymous)
102(1)
To His Excellency the Lord Carteret, Occasioned by Seeing a Poem Entitled The Birth of Manly Virtue (Mary Barber)
103(1)
An Apology to the Lady Carteret
104(6)
The Linnet and the Jay
110(2)
A Third Riddle by the Revd. Doctor Delany
112(2)
A Riddle by the Revd. Doctor Delany, Inscribed to the Lady Carteret
114(3)
Another Riddle by the Revd. Doctor Delany, Inscribed to the Lady Carteret
117(1)
Answered by the Reverend Dean S-----t (Swift)
118(2)
from An Epistle in Behalf of Our Irish Poets to the Right Hon. Lady C-----t (Anonymous)
120(1)
The Invitation to Doctor Delany, at Delville, MDCCXXIX (Matthew Pilkington)
120(3)
Delville, the Seat of the Rev. Dr. Delany (Laetitia Pilkington)
123(1)
Refined Delight
124(1)
An Epistle to His Excellency John Lord Carteret
125(4)
An Epistle upon an Epistle from a Certain Doctor to a Certain Great Lord: Being a Christmas-Box for D. D-----Y (Swift)
129(6)
An Answer to the Christmas-Box (Sheridan?)
135(3)
A Letter of Advice to the Reverend Dr. D-----LA-----Y, Humbly Proposed to the Consideration of a Certain Great Lord (Anonymous)
138(2)
A Libel on the Reverend Dr. Delany and His Excellency John, Lord Carteret (Swift)
140(9)
To Dr Delany, on the Libels Writ against Him (Swift)
149(6)
To a Friend Who Had Been Much Abused in Many Inveterate Libels (Swift)
155(1)
The Pheasant and the Lark
156(6)
An Answer to Dr. Delany's Fable of the Pheasant and the Lark (Swift)
162(4)
Peg Radcliffe the Hostess's Invitation to Dean Swift
166(2)
The Goddess Envy to Doctor D-----I-----Y (Constantia Grierson)
168(2)
Mighty Thomas, A Solemn Senatus I Call
170(1)
The Lost Muse (Matthew Pilkington)
171(2)
Longford's Glen
173(8)
Verses Left with a Silver Standish, on the Dean of St. Patrick's Desk, on His Birthday
181(2)
On Dr. Delany's Life of King David (Anonymous)
183(1)
Let Others Gain from Power a Titled Name (Constantine Barber)
183(1)
To Doctor Delany, on His Book Entitled Observations on Lord Orrery's Remarks (Anonymous)
184(1)
Thou Modest Rose, of Blushing Bloom
184(1)
I'm an Emblem of Marriage
185(2)
Appendix: Poems of Doubtful Attribution 187(2)
A Song 189(5)
Biographical Index 194(10)
Index of Titles 204(2)
Index of First Lines 206(2)
General Index 208

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