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• English poetry -- Early works to 1800
• Verse satire -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• 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)

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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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• The works, in verse and prose, of William Shenstone ... : With decorations ... (Printed by H. S. Woodfall for J. Dodsley, 1773), by William Shenstone and Robert Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradise lost. A poem in twelve books. (printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, J. and R. Tonson, etc., 1757), by John Milton, Thomas Newton, A. and C. Corbett, M. and T. Longman (Firm), C. Hitch and L. Hawes (Firm), and J. and R. Tonson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetical works of James Thomson (J.W. Parker, 1855), by James Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salmagundi; a miscellaneous combination of original poetry : consisting of illusions of fancy; amatory, elegiac, lyrical, epigrammatical, and other palatable ingredients. (Printed by T. Bensley ... for T. Payne ... B. White and Son ... and J. Debret ..., 1791), by George Huddesford, John Debrett, Thomas Payne, Thomas Bensley, and B. White and Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems, songs and love-verses, upon several subjects by Matthew Coppinger ... (London : Printed for R. Bentley, and M. Magnes ..., 1682), by Matthew Coppinger (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Poems by Sir W.T. ([London : s.n., 1670?]), by William Temple (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The second part of Mr. Waller's poems Containing, his alteration of The maids tragedy, and whatever of his is yet unprinted: together with some other poems, speeches, &c. that were printed severally, and never put into the first collection of his poems. (London : printed for Tho. Bennet, at the Half-Moon in St. Pauls Church-yard, MDCXC. [1690]), by Edmund Waller (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Poems to the memory of that incomparable poet Edmond Waller Esquire by several hands. (London : Printed for Joseph Knight, and Francis Saunders ..., 1688), by Thomas Rymer, Aphra Behn, and John Cotton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The wish corrected and augmented with a second part, licensed December 11th 1691. ([S.l. : s.n., 1691]), by Dr. Pope (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A copy of verses made and set forth by Thomas Priest Bell-Man to all my worthy master and mistrisses of the vvard of St. Gile's Cripplegate without and within the freedom. ([London] : Printed by Hen. Brugis, 1681), by Thomas Priest (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An epitaph. On the worst and most wicked of all mankind, C. I. who dyed on the 6th of June 1681 (London : Printed by G. L. for the Author, 1681) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The ladies answer to that busie-body, who wrote The life and death of Du Vall. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year MDCLXX. [1670]), by Elizabeth Cellier and Walter Pope (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A place of refuge to flee to for safety in a day of danger (London : Printed for J. M., 1688) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The husband's instructions to his family:, or, Household observations fit to be observed by vvife, children, and servants (London : Printed by William Downing, in Great St. Bartholomew's-Close, 1685) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• School-lavves. Or, Qui mihi in English. By J. M. (London : [s.n.], printed MDCL. [1650]), by J. M. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The royal anagram carolus decundus rex angliæ ana -- [brace] lux elucesco regnis san' ardua. [brace] -- gram ... / J.P. ([London] : Printed by Nath. Thompson, at the entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden near Charing-Cross, 1683), by J. P. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lamentable new verses called, The rich heiresses downfal, or, Sir John Johnsons farewell; being a true relation how she was drawn in to do that wicked thing, and how her guardian had designed her for her own son, who now refuses her ; with what happened thereupon. As likewise a short prayer for the unfortunate young lady. ([S.l.] : Printed for Poet Ninny, and are to be sold the D---- I knows where, [1693]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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