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• English poetry -- 17th century
• Verse satire -- 17th century
• 17th century

• Naps upon Parnassus. A sleepy muse nipt and pincht, though not awakened such voluntary and jovial copies of verses, as were lately receiv'd from some of the wits of the universities, in a frolick, dedicated to Gondibert's mistress by Captain Jones and others. Whereunto is added from demonstration of the authors prosaick excellency's, his epistle to one of the universities, with the answer; together with two satyrical characters of his own, of a temporizer, and an antiquary, with marginal notes by a friend to the reader. Vide Jones his legend, drink sack and gunpowder, and so fall to't. (London, : Printed by express order from the wits, for N. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1658), by Thomas Flatman (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Tom Brown's letter from the shades, to the French King in purgatory. (London : Printed for Will. Jack-about, [1697]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The coffee scuffle, occasioned by a contest between a learned knight, and a pitifull pedagogue. With the character of a coffee-house. (Lodon [sic] : Printed and are to be sold at the Latine Coffee House near the Stocks, 1662), by fl. 1662 Woolnoth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true Presbyterian without disguise: or, a character of a Presbyterains wayes and actions, in verse. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the year, 1661), by John Denham (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• London; and The Vanity of Human Wishes: With Notes, Historical and Biographical, and a Glossary (sixth edition (uses the 1755 Vanity text); London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1890), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by I. P. Fleming (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), by Samuel Johnson (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Academia: or, The Humours of the University of Oxford in Burlesque Verse (London: Randal Taylor, 1691), by Alicia D'Anvers (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co., 1812), by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Satires, and other poems (G. Willis, 1838), by Joseph Hall and Peter Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems on affairs of State; Augustan satirical verse, 1660-1714 (Yale University Press, 1963), by George deForest Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
• The imperial epistle ; and The shade of Alexander Pope (Printed by H. Maxwell, for A. Dickins, bookseller, North Second street, opposite Christ-Church., 1800), by Thomas James Mathias, Asbury Dickins, and Hugh Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rede me and be nott wrothe, for I saye no thinge but trothe. (A. Constable and Co., 1895), by William Roy, Edward Arber, and Jerome Barlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The satires of Cynicus. (Cynicus Publishing, and Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1982), by Cynicus (page images at HathiTrust)
• "'Arry" ballads : from "Punch" (London : Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [1892], 1892), by E. J. Milliken, George Du Maurier, Charles Keene, John Leech, and Agnew and Co Bradbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ladies exercise at tea : with the rise and progress therof, or the metamorphosis of a set of ladies into a set of china tea-cups. (Printed by Rich. Dickson and reprinted in Corke, 1729) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blasphemy as old as the creation : or, The Newgate divine : a satyr address'd to the modern advocates of irreligion, prophaneness, and infidelity (by George Faulkner, at the pamphlet-shop in Essex-Street, where all manner of pamphlets are sold and printing work done reasonably, 1730), by Thomas Newcomb and George Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A satyr. In the manner of Persius : in a dialogue between the poet and his friend (Printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1730), by John, Lord Hervey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verses address'd to the imitator of the first satire of the second book of Horace (Printed for A. Dodd ;, 1733), by Mary Wortley Montagu, Christopher Dickson, and John, Lord Hervey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first satire of the second book of Horace, imitated : in a dialogue between Alexander Pope, of Twickenham, in Com. Midd. Esq ; on the one part, and his learned council on the other. (by and for George Faulkner, in Essex-Street, opposite to the Bridge, 1733), by Alexander Pope, George Faulkner, and Horace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Belly duel (s.n.], 1730), by Jonathan Swift (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vanella in the straw : a poem inscrib'd to a certain lady in St. James's-Street. (Printed for W. James, without Temple-Bar; and sold by the booksellers and pamphlet-sellers of London and Westminister, 1732) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pursuits of literature : a satirical poem in four dialogues, with notes. (Printed by H. Maxwell, for J. Nancrede, Boston, and A. Dickins, and J. Ormrod, Philadelphia, 1800), by Thomas James Mathias and American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pursuits of literature : a satirical poem in four dialogues, with notes. (Printed for T. Becket, 1801), by Thomas James Mathias, Thomas Becket, and Jaques and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love in the Suds: a Town Eclogue.: Being the Lamentation of Roscius for the Loss of His Nyky., by W. Kenrick (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Scribleriad, and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue, by John Hervey Hervey, ed. by James Sambrook (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Man of Taste, by James Bramston, contrib. by F. P. Lock (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Answer to unconstant William, or, The Young-man's resolution to pay the young lasses in their own coin. ([London] : Printed for C. Bates, next door to the Crown-Tavern in West-Smithfield., [ca. 1680]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Bare-faced Tories: A new song. To the tune of Robbin-Goodfellow. (London: : Printed for H. Jones, 1682) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Batchelor's triumph: or, The single-man's happiness. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball, near the Hospital-gate in West-Smithfield, [between 1672 and 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Amorous shepherd, and coy shepherdess, or, An answer to Amintas and Claudia: ([London] : Printed for J. Clarke at the Harp and Bible in West-Smithfield, [1680?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Augusta's restoration from her city-calenture,: by an emittick pill of quo warranto from Westminster. ([London] : Printed for Peter Trimme, 1683) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Satirical Poems: Published Anonymously by William Mason, With Notes by Horace Walpole, Now First Printed from His Manuscript (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1926), by William Mason, ed. by Paget Jackson Toynbee, contrib. by Horace Walpole
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• Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope (Washington: Library of Congress, 1988), by David L. Vander Meulen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The man of taste : occasion'd by an epistle of Mr. Pope's on that subject (Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1733), by James Bramston, John Wright, Gerard Van der Gucht, Alexander Pope, and Lawton Gilliver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orbilius vapulans or A juniper lecture for a moth-eaten scholar By the authour of the Coffee scuffle. (London : [s.n.], printed in the year, 1662), by fl. 1662 Woolnoth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Britanicus his blessing. (At Cambridge : Imprinted by Roger Daniel, printer to the Vniversity, 1646) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Pope's Horatian Poems (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1966), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Lord Byron as a satirist in verse (Columbia university press, 1912), by Claude Moore Fuess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lord Byron as a satirist in verse. ([Columbia university press], 1912), by Claude Moore Fuess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lord Byron as a satirist in verse, by Claude Moore Fuess (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad, by Walter Harte (Gutenberg ebook)

• Pope's Horatian Poems (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1966), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Hesperides (W. Scott, limited, 1887), by Robert Herrick, Sarah Orne Jewett, Herbert P. Horne, Ernest Rhys, and Herbert Percy Horne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete poems of Robert Herrick. (Chatto and Windus, 1876), by Robert Herrick and Alexander Balloch Grosart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete works of Richard Crashaw. For the first time collected and collated with the original and early editions, and much enlarged. (Robson], 1872), by Richard Crashaw and Alexander Balloch Grosart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of John Dryden (J. W. Parker and Son, 1854), by John Dryden and Robert Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• O paraiso perdido : poema epico (F. Didot, 1823), by John Milton, Francisco Bento Maria Targini, and Firmin-Didot (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The temple; sacred poems and private ejaculations (Pickering, 1850), by George Herbert and William Pickering (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of John Milton : reprinted from the Chandos poets ; with memoir, explanatory notes, &c. ; portrait and original illustrations. (Frederick Warne and Co., 1880), by John Milton, Warner Grenelle Rice, Camden Press, Dalziel Brothers, and Frederick Warne (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of John Milton. With the life of the author ... (R. & W.A. Bartow;, 1822), by John Milton, Michele Pekenino, Peter Maverick, A. B. Durand, and Elijah Fenton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems and extracts chosen by William Wordsworth for an album presented to Lady Mary Lowther, Christmas, 1819. Printed literally from the original album with facsimiles. (Henry Frowde, 1905), by William Wordsworth, Cynthia Morgan St. John, Harold Littledale, Anne Kingsmill Finch Winchilsea, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hudibras. (Appleton, 1868), by Samuel Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete poetical works of John Milton, with life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes (D. Appleton & Co., 1854), by John Milton, George Gilfillan, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comus (Macmillan et Soc., 1865), by John Milton and George Lyttelton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradise lost; a poem. (Orr and Smith, 1836), by John Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poems of Andrew Marvell, sometime member of Parliament for Hull (Lawrence & Bullen;, 1898), by Andrew Marvell and George Atherton Aitken (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...Lycidas, Comus, L'allegro, Il penseroso, and other poems (C.E.Merrill, 1906), by John Milton and J. W. Abernethy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of John Dryden : edited with a memoir, revised text, and notes (Macmillan and Co., 1893), by John Dryden and William Dougal Christie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of John Milton. (Macmillan, 1904), by John Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'allegro ; Il penseroso ; Comus ; and Lycidas (American Book Co., 1894), by John Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete poetical works of Alexander Pope. (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1903), by Alexander Pope and Henry Walcott Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of Samuel Butler. (Houghton, Osgood and company, 1880), by Samuel Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of John Dryden. With memoir and intruduction to poems .... (T.Y. Crowell & co., 1880), by John Dryden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poetical works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins : complete in one volume. (Lippincott, Grambo, 1850), by William Collins, James Beattie, Thomas Gray, Edward Young, and John Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of John Milton (Oxford University Press, 1916), by John Milton and H. C. Beeching (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The poetical works of John Dryden (Macmillan and Co., limited, 1911), by John Dryden and William Dougal Christie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Allegro (J.M. Dent & Co., 1895), by John Milton and William Henry Hyde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carmen Deo nostro, te decet hymnus sacred poems, / collected, corrected, augmented, most humbly presented. To my Lady the Countesse of Denbigh by her most deuoted seruant. R.C. In heaty [sic] acknowledgment of his immortall obligation to her goodnes & charity. (At Paris : By Peter Targa, printer to the Arch-bishope of Paris, in S. Victors streete at the golden sunne., M. DC. LII. [1652]), by Richard Crashaw (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sylvæ, or, The second part of Poetical miscellanies (London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1685), by John Dryden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Even in the twinkling of an eye. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere. I. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passenger., [between 1678-1681]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the society of the Beaux esprits a pindarick poem / by the author of the late Satyr against Woman. (London : Printed for Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders ..., 1687), by Robert Gould (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Prologue to the Northern lass by J.H. ([London] : Printed for C. Corbet at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-lane, 1684), by Joseph Haines and Richard Brome (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Poems. By W.H. (London, : Printed for Thomas Dring at the George in Fleetstreet, neer Cliffords Inne Gate, 1655), by William Hammond (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Harmony of the muses, or, The gentlemans and ladies choisest recreation full of various, pure and transcendent wit : containing severall excellent poems, some fancies of love, some of disdain, and all the subjects incident to the passionate affections either of men or women / heretofore written by those unimitable masters of learning and invention, Dr. Joh. Donn, Dr. Hen. King, Dr. W. Stroad [et al]. (London : Printed by T.W. for William Gilbertson ..., 1654), by R. C., John Donne, Henry King, and William Strode (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Rump rampant, or, The sweet old cause in sippits set out by Sir T.A., perfumer to His late Highnesse, to the tune of, Last Parliament sat as snugg as a cat. ([London : s.n., 1660]), by Sir T. A. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Olor Iscanus. A collection of some select poems, and translations, / formerly written by Mr. Henry Vaughan silurist. ; Published by a friend. (London, : Printed by T.W. for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1651), by Henry Vaughan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Annual miscellany, for the year 1694 being the fourth part of Miscellany poems : containing great variety of new translations and original copies / by the most eminent hands. (London : Printed by R.E. for Jacob Tonson ..., 1694), by John Dryden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Collection of poems written upon several occasions by several persons with many additions, never before in print. (London : Printed for Tho. Collins and John Ford ... and Will. Cademan ..., 1673), by Charles Sedley, George Etherege, John Sheffield Buckingham, and Aphra Behn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A prologue spoken by Mrs. Bracegirdle, at the entertainment of Love for love. ([London : s.n., 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To God alone let us all glory give, by whose permission we poor mortals live ... (London, : Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, and J. Back., 1692) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• [Aeternitati sacrum. Or a monument ...] (London, : Printed by Peter Lillicrap, for H. Brome at the sign of the Gun in Ivy-lane, 1662) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The devil upon Dun: or The downfall of the upstart chymist: being the second edition of a late song: to the tune of Smoak us, and choak us. (London, : Printed for Nathaniel Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill near the Royal-Exchange, 1672) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Londons welcome to His Most Illustrious Highness, VVilliam Henry, prince of Orange. ([London] : Printed for M.T., in the year, 1688), by Cyprian Southaick (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Seasonable thoughts in Passion-week. By J.S. (Dublin, : Printed by Joseph Ray, on Colledg [sic] Green ..., 1691), by John Stearne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The loyal and impartial satyrist containing eight miscellany poems ... (London : Printed for Richard Baldwin ..., 1694), by T. R. (Thomas Rogers) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A coat of divers colours fit for Joseph. Or, Piety in variety. By Jos. W. gentleman. ([London] : Printed for J.W., 1656), by Jos. W. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Welshman's praise of Wales: or, Shon ap Morgan's falling in love with an English lady in his journey to London. (London, : Printed and are to be sold by J. Raven in Searle's-Square, Lincoln's-Inn., MDCC. [1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Muses cabinet, stored with variety of poems, both pleasant and profitable. / By W.W. (London, : Printed for F. Coles in the Old-Baily., 1655), by William Winstanley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Cupids master-piece, or, The free-school of witty and delightful complements being the art of love refined, and augmented with divers new, pleasant, and delightful comments and discourses of love ... (London : Printed for John Andrews ..., [1656?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Note, that whereas in the returne Quind. Pasce, the number 21 is twice set downe, ... ([S.l. : s.n., 15--?]), by George Alleyn and H. A. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Divine blossomes. A prospect or looking-glass for youth: wherein and whereby he may plainly behold and see a supereminency and super-excellency of grace and religion, beyond the worlds honor, glory, fame, repute, pleasure, joy, delight, love,. [sic] And all other lower accomodations whatsoever. Laid down to youth by exciting parallel between [brace] earths honor carnal pleasure inordinate love [brace] and [brace] heavens glory and spiritual pleasure divine love. Under every of which particulars, the author exemplarily expresseth himself in a varied verse. / Composed by a hearty wel-wisher to the youthful generation, Francis Cockin, alias Cokayne. (London, : Printed by W.G. for E. Farnham, at the entrance into Popeshead-alley out of Cornhill, 1657), by Francis Cockin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Miscellaneous poems upon several occasions. Written by a young lady. (London: : Printen [sic] for H. Hindmarsh, at the Golden-Ball in Cornhil, M. DC. XC. VIII. [1698]), by E. W. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Poems and discourses occasionally written by John Norris ... (London : Printed by J. Harefinch for James Norris ..., 1684), by John Norris (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A poem on the long expected auspicious birth of the Prince, June the 10th. MDCLXXXVIII. being Trinity Sunday. ([London] : Printed by Mary Thompson at the entrance into Old-Spring-Garden ..., anno Dom.MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A monumental memorial of marine mercy being an acknowledgement of an high hand of Divine deliverance on the deep in the time of distress, in a late voyage from Boston in New-England to London, anno 1683. : In a poem. / By Richard Steere. ; To which is added another occasioned by several remarkable passages happening at the birth of a male child on board the same ship in her voyage returning 1684. By the same author then a passenger. ([Boston] : Printed at Boston in New-England by Richard Pierce for James Cowse stationer, anno 1684), by Richard Steere (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To God alone let us all glory give, by whose permission we poor mortals live ... (London, : Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, and J. Back., 1692) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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