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

, by Delany, Patrick; Hogan, Robert Good; Mell, Donald Charles

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ISBN: 9780874139389 | 0874139384
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/1/2006

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Preface

(6)

Abbreviations and Sources Frequently Cited

(4)

Introduction

(22)

Note on the Text

(4)

Biography and Background

(2)

Principal Prose Works by Delany

(4)

The Poems

To Thomas Sheridan

(1)

My Pedagogue Dear, I Read with Surprise (Sheridan)

(1)

On Dan Jackson's Picture Cut in Paper

(2)

On the Same (Sheridan)

(1)

Another Picture of Dan (Sheridan)

(1)

Another (Rochfort)

(1)

In Vindication of Poor Dan's Picture (Swift or Jackson)

(2)

Assist Me, My Muse, Whilst I Labor to Limn Him (Delany?)

(2)

from To Mr. Delany (Swift)

(2)

Verses to Dean Swift on His Birthday

(2)

From My Much Honored Friend at Heldelville (Delany or Richard Helsham)

(1)

Upon the Author (Delany or Sheridan)

(2)

Written on the Deanery Window of St. Patrick's, Dublin (with Esther Johnson)

(2)

Another

(1)

Apollo to the Dean (Swift)

(5)

News from Parnassus

(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)

(4)

On Gaulstown House, the Seat of George Rochfort, Esq.

(1)

To the Right Honorable Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, and Viscount Valencia, September 25th, 1721

(1)

A Description of Doctor Delany's Villa (Sheridan)

(3)

Verses Written on One of the Windows at Delville (Sheridan?)

(1)

On the Great Buried Bottle

(1)

Epitaph

(1)

To the Duchess of Grafton

(2)

Sent by Dr. Delany to Dr. Swift, In Order to be Admitted to Speak to Him

(1)

Upon Seeing Himself in the Glass

(1)

The Birth of Manly Virtue, from Callimachus

(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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