The Oxford Anthology of English Literature Volume III: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

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ISBN: 9780195016147 | 0195016149
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Copyright: 4/5/1973

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The authors represented in this volume include Congreve (The Way of the World), Gay (The Beggar's Opera), Dryden (Absalom and Achitophel and MacFlecknoe), Swift, Pope, Boswell, and Samuel Johnson.

THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

(764)

Samuel Butler

(12)

Hudibras

Part I, Canto I

(11)

John Bunyan

(8)

The Pilgrim's Progress

From This World to That Which Is To Come

(7)

Marquess of Halifax

(13)

George Savile

The Character of a Trimmer

[The Laws]

(6)

[Liberty and the Constitution]

(3)

[Conclusion]

(3)

Earl of Rochester

(6)

John Wilmot

A Satire Against Mankind

(5)

John Dryden

(69)

Absalom and Achitophel

(27)

Mac Flecknoe

(6)

Religio Laici

(5)

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

(1)

Lines on Milton

(1)

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady

(6)

Mrs. Anne Killigrew

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687

101

(2)

Alexander's Feast

103

(6)

Translations

108

(1)

Preface to Sylvae [Lucretius]

109

(1)

Lucretius:De Rerum Natura

109

(4)

Juvenal:The Sixth Satire

113

(1)

Critical Prose

114

(1)

The Poetic Process [Wit and Fancy]

114

(4)

Critical Issues [Subplots and Complex Structure]

118

(1)

[Comedy and Farce]

118

(1)

[Horace and Juvenal]

119

(2)

Critical Judgments [Shakespeare and Jonson]

121

(1)

[Chaucer]

122

(1)

William Congreve

123

(64)

To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve

125

(2)

John Dryden

The Way of the World

127

(60)

Eighteenth Century

Jonathan Swift

187

(104)

The Battle of the Books

189

(1)

A Full and True Account of the Battle Fought Last Friday, Between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. James's Library

189

(4)

A Tale of a Tub

193

(18)

An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in England

211

(10)

A Modest Proposal

221

(7)

Poems

227

(1)

Phyllis, Or, The Progress of Love

228

(2)

On Stella's Birthday

230

(1)

Stella's Birthday

230

(3)

The Day of Judgment

233

(1)

Cassinus and Peter

233

(6)

Gulliver's Travels

236

(3)

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

239

(48)

A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson

287

(3)

Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver

290

(1)

John Gay

Alexander Pope

The Mock Form

291

(18)

The Splendid Shilling

293

(3)

John Philips

The Shepherd's Week

296

(3)

John Gay

Baucis and Philemon

299

(4)

John Dryden

Baucis and Philemon

303

(4)

John Dryden

An Epitaph

307

(2)

Matthew Prior

Alexander Pope

309

(104)

An Essay on Criticism

311

(10)

The Rape of the Lock

321

(21)

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

342

(3)

An Essay on Man

345

(1)

Epistle II

345

(1)

Epistle III

346

(4)

To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington

350

(7)

To a Lady

357

(8)

Imitations of Horace

364

(1)

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

365

(12)

The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace

377

(4)

Epilogue to the Satires:Dialogue I

381

(5)

Dialogue II

386

(8)

The Dunciad

393

(1)

Book the Fourth

394

(19)

John Gay

413

(58)

The Beggar's Opera

417

(48)

The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild

465

(3)

Daniel Defoe

The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

468

(3)

Henry Fielding

The Urban Scene

471

(27)

The Third Satire of Juvenal

472

(2)

John Dryden

London: A Poem

474

(1)

Samuel Johnson

A Description of the Morning

475

(1)

Jonathan Swift

A Description of a City Shower

475

(2)

Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London

John Gay

477

(4)

[The Royal Exchange]

481

(2)

Joseph Addison

[The Hours of London]

483

(3)

Richard Steele

The Fable of the Bees

486

(10)

Bernard Mandeville

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

496

(1)

Daniel Defoe

A Modern Glossary

497

(1)

Henry Fielding

Later Eighteenth Century

James Boswell

498

(33)

The Journals

[1762--63: Farewell to Louisa]

499

(3)

[1764: The Visit to Rousseau]

502

(3)

[1776: Reflections on Man]

505

(2)

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

[1729: ``Morbid Melancholy'']

507

(4)

[1754: The Dictionary and Lord Chesterfield]

511

(2)

[1763: The Meeting with Boswell]

513

(5)

[1776: The Meeting with Wilkes]

518

(4)

[1777: The Fear of Death]

522

(2)

[The Character of Samuel Johnson]

524

(2)

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

526

(5)

Samuel Johnson

531

(46)

The Vanity of Human Wishes

532

(10)

On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet

542

(2)

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

543

(1)

The History of Imlac

544

(2)

The History of Imlac Continued

546

(1)

Imlac's History Continued. A Dissertation upon Poetry

547

(2)

Imlac's Narrative Continued. A Hint on Pilgrimage

549

(1)

The Story of Imlac Continued

550

(3)

The Rambler

553

(5)

The Idler

558

(3)

The Preface to Shakespeare

561

(8)

The Notes to Shakespeare

[Falstaff]

569

(1)

[Polonius]

569

(1)

[Lady Macbeth]

569

(1)

The Lives of the Poets

570

(1)

[Cowley and the Metaphysical Poets]

570

(2)

[Milton]

572

(1)

[Richard Savage]

573

(2)

[Dryden and Pope]

575

(1)

Pope on Homer and Virgil

Preface to the translation of the Iliad

576

(1)

Edward Gibbson

577

(21)

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Of the Constitution of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines

578

(17)

The Conduct of the Roman Government Towards the Christians, from the Reign of Nero to That of Constantine

595

(3)

Edmund Burke

598

(9)

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

[From Part II]

599

(5)

[From Part III: The Sublime and Beautiful Compared]

604

(1)

[From Part V]

605

(2)

Sir Joshua Reynolds

607

(12)

Discourses

[The Grand Style]

608

(1)

[Poetic and Literal Truth]

609

(1)

[The Pleasures of the Mind]

610

(1)

[Minute Particulars]

611

(1)

[Art and Illusion]

612

(7)

The Garden and the Wild

619

(26)

Upon the Gardens of Epicurus

620

(1)

Sir William Temple

The Gardens of Alcinous

621

(1)

Alexander Pope

Windsor Forest

622

(1)

Third Earl of Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley Cooper

The Moralists

623

(9)

Joseph Addison

632

(1)

[The Pleasures of the Imagination]

632

(3)

[Crossing the Alps, 1739]

635

(2)

Horace Walpole

Thomas Gray

The Seasons

James Thomson

Summer

637

(2)

Winter

639

(2)

The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Edward Young

Night I

641

(1)

Night VI

642

(1)

A Journey to the Western Islands

643

(2)

Samuel Johnson

William Collins

645

(11)

Ode on the Poetical Character

646

(3)

Ode to Evening

649

(2)

Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland

651

(5)

Thomas Gray

656

(15)

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

657

(3)

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

660

(1)

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

661

(4)

The Bard

665

(5)

On Lord Holland's Seat near Margate, Kent

670

(1)

Christopher Smart

671

(18)

Jubilate Agno

Fragment B1

672

(1)

Fragment B2

672

(3)

A Song to David

675

(14)

Oliver Goldsmith

689

(10)

The Deserted Village

689

(10)

William Cowper

699

(11)

Lines Written During a Period of Insanity

700

(1)

On the Ice Islands Seen Floating in the German Ocean

701

(1)

The Castaway

702

(2)

The Task

704

(6)

George Crabbe

710

(11)

The Village

710

(4)

The Parish Register

714

(7)

Robert Burns

721

(19)

To a Mouse

721

Address to the Deil

523

(204)

Holy Willie's Prayer

727

(3)

Tam O'Shanter

730

(6)

Green Grow the Rashes

736

(1)

Ae Fond Kiss

736

(1)

A Red, Red Rose

737

(1)

Scots Wha Hae

738

(1)

For A' That and A' That

738

(2)

Sense and Sensibility

740

(27)

Memoirs of My Own Life

Edward Gibbon

[Aunt Hester and William Law]

741

(3)

[His Conversion to Roman Catholicism]

744

(2)

[Gibbon in Love]

746

(1)

[His Italian Tour]

747

(1)

[The Ideal Traveler]

748

(1)

[A Retrospective View]

749

(3)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

752

(1)

The Confessions

[His Aunt Suzon]

753

(1)

[Life with Mme de Warens]

754

(3)

[The Roman Past]

757

(1)

[The Island of Saint-Pierre]

758

(3)

Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journal

760

(1)

Laurence Sterne

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

761

(1)

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Mr. Yorick Moulines

Moulines

762

(3)

The Bourbonnois

765

(2)

Glossary

767

(24)

Suggestions for Further Reading

791

(6)

Indexes: Authors and Titles

797

(2)

First Lines of Poems

799

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The Oxford Anthology of English Literature Volume III: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

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