from Hudibras ; A politician ; A bumpkin or country-squire ; A latitudinarian ; A fanatic ; A play-writer / Samuel Butler -- from The diary / Samuel Pepys -- A satire against mankind / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- To my honor'd friend, Sir Robert Howard ; To my honor'd friend, Dr. Charleton / John Dryden -- Songs. from Tyrannic love ; from Marriage a-la-mode ; from The Spanish fryar / John Dryden -- Prologue to The tempest ; Epilogue to the second part of The conquest of Granada by the Spaniards ; Prologue to Aureng-Zebe ; Absalom and Achitophel ; The medal : a satire against sedition ; Mac Flecknoe ; Religio Laici ; To the memory of Mr. Oldham ; To the pious memory of the accomplish'd young lady, Mrs. Anne Killigrew ; The hind and the panther : the first part ; A song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 ; Lines printed under the engraved portrait of Milton, in Tonson's folio edition of the "Paradise lost", 1688 ; To my dear friend Mr. Congreve, on his comedy call'd The doubledealer ; Alexander's feast, or, The power of music : an ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day, 1697 ; An essay of dramatic poesy / John Dryden -- Of poetry / Sir William Temple -- The choice / John Pomfret -- To a lady : she refusing to continue a dispute with me ; To a child of quality five years old ; An English padlock ; A simile ; To Cloe weeping ; An ode ; Cloe jealous ; A better answer (to Cloe jealous) ; An epitaph / Matthew Prior -- To the echo : in a clear night upon astrop walks ; The bird ; The tree ; To the nightingale ; A nocturnal reverie / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- from An essay on projects ; A true relation of the apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel DeFoe -- Baucis and Philemon ; A description of the morning ; A description of a city shower ; On Stella's birthday ; Stella's birthday, March 13, 1726-27 ; The beasts' confessions to the priest ; Verses on the death of Dr. Swift ; The day of judgment ; from A tale of a tub ; from The battle of the books [episode of The spider and the bee] ; Against the abolishing of Christianity in England ; Gulliver's travels, part IV ; A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- The tatler, Nos. 1, 21 ; The spectator [selections] / Richard Steele and Joseph Addison -- To the Earl of Warwick on the death of Mr. Addison ; Colin and Lucy / Thomas Tickell -- The splendid shilling : an imitation of Milton / John Philips -- To Miss Charlotte Pulteney, in her mother's arms / Ambrose Philips.

Verses on the prospect of planting arts and learning in America / George Berkeley -- An inquiry concerning virtue or merit ; from Miscellany III ; The apostrophe to nature, from The moralists / Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury -- The grumbling hive, or, Knaves turned honest ; from The fable of the bees : an enquiry into the origin of moral virtue / Bernard Mandeville -- Summer : the second pastoral, or, Alexis ; An essay on criticism (pt. I, II, III) ; The rape of the lock ; Elegy : to the memory of an unfortunate lady ; Eloïsa to Abelard ; An essay on man ; The universal prayer ; Moral essays. Epistle IV, Of the use of riches : to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington / Alexander Pope -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ; The first Epistle of the second book of Horace : to Augustus ; The Dunciad, Book I ; The guardian, No. 173 ; Preface to the works of Shakespeare / Alexander Pope -- On a miscellany of poems / John Gay -- The shepherd's week. Thursday, or, The spell ; Friday, or, The dirge ; Saturday, or, The flights / John Gay -- from trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London, from Book II / John Gay -- Sweet William's farewell to black-eyed susan ; To a lady on her passion for old China ; Song / John Gay -- A hymn to contentment ; When thy beauty appears (song) ; A night piece on death ; My days have been so wondrous free (song) / Thomas Parnell -- The young laird and Edinburgh Katy ; Katy's answer ; The poet's wish : an ode ; An thou were my ain thing ; Sang / Allan Ramsay.

The ballad of Sally in our alley / Henry Carey -- The braces of Yarrow / William Hamilton of Bangour -- Grongar Hill / John Dyer -- A poem sacred to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton ; Hymn on solitude ; from The seasons (winter) ; A hymn on the seasons ; Rule, Britannia! ; The castle of indolence / James Thomson -- The spleen / Matthew Green -- The day of judgment ; The hazard of loving the creatures ; Crucifixion to the world by the cross of Christ ; A prospect of heaven makes death easy ; Man frail and God eternal ; A cradle hymn / Isaac Watts -- Wrestling Jacob ; In temptation / Charles Wesley -- The complaint, or, Night thoughts : night I / Edward Young -- The grave / Robert Blair -- The pleasures of imagination : book I / Mark Akenside -- The schoolmistress ; Written at an inn at Henley ; Slender's ghost ; Inscription : on a tablet against a root-house ; Inscription : On the back of a Gothic seat / William Shenstone -- The enthusiast, or, The lover of nature ; Ode I, To fancy / Joseph Warton -- The pleasures of melancholy ; The crusade ; Sonnet III, written in a blank leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon ; Sonnet IV, written at Stonehenge ; Sonnet VIII, On King Arthur's round table at Winchester / Thomas Warton the Younger -- A song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline ; Ode to pity ; Ode to fear ; Ode to simplicity ; Ode on the poetical character ; Ode : written in the beginning of the year 1746 ; Ode to evening ; The passions : an ode for music ; Ode on the death of Mr. Thomson ; Ode on the popular superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland / William Collins -- Sonnet on the death of Mr. Richard West ; Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; Hymn to adversity ; Elegy written in a country churchyard ; Stanzas to Mr. Bentley ; The progress of poesy : a Pindaric ode ; The bard : a Pindaric ode ; The fatal sisters ; The descent of Odin : an ode from the Norse tongue ; Letters / Thomas Gray -- from The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. / James Boswell -- Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick, Drury Lane, 1747 ; The vanity of human wishes ; Lines written in ridicule of certain poems published in 1777 ; On the death of Mr. Robert Levet ; The rambler, No. 4 ; The idler, nos. 60 and 61 ; The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia / Samuel Johnson -- A song to David / Christopher Smart -- Carthon, a poem / James Macpherson.

The prophecy of famine : a Scots pastoral / Charles Churchill -- Letters / Horace Walpole -- The traveller, or, A prospect of society ; Song ; The deserted village ; Retaliation ; Asem, an Eastern tale ; A reverie at the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap ; Letters from a citizen of the world, nos. 4, 11, 13, 26, 27, 30, 71, 72, 119 ; Essay on the theatre, or, A comparison between sentimental and laughing comedy / Oliver Goldsmith -- Ode to the cuckoo / Michael Bruce -- The minstrel, or, The progress of genius (The first book) / James Beattie -- The flowers of the forest / Jane Elliot -- Bristowe tragedie ; Mynstrelles songe ; An excelente balade of charitie / Thomas Chatterton -- Olney Hymns. Praise for the fountain opened ; Walking with God ; Light shining out of darkness ; The happy change / William Cowper -- The shrubbery ; Addressed to a young lady ; The diverting history of John Gilpin ; The poplar-field / William Cowper -- The task. Book three, The garden ; Book IV, The winter evening / William Cowper -- On the receipt of my mother's picture out of Norfolk ; To Mary ; The castaway ; Letters / William Cowper -- The holy fair ; Address to the deil ; The Cotter's Saturday night ; To a mouse ; To a mountain daisy ; Epistle of John Lapraik, an old Scottish bard ; A bard's epitaph ; To the Rev. John M'Math ; Holy Willie's prayer ; Address to the Unco Guid, or the rigidly righteous ; The jolly beggars ; Tam O'Shanter ; Green grow the rashes ; Of a' the airts ; John Anderson my Jo ; Highland Mary ; Thou lingering star ; Afton water ; Ae fond kiss ; Duncan Gray ; A red, red rose ; Auld lang syne ; Ye banks and braes ; Go fetch to me a pint o' wine ; For a' that and a' that ; Scots wha hae ; O, wert thou in the cauld blast / Robert Burns -- The village (book I) ; The parish register, from part III : Burials / George Crabbe -- Letters / Junius -- from Reflection on the revolution in France ; A letter from the right Hon. Edmund Burke to a noble lord / Edmund Burke -- from The rights of man / Thomas Paine.

from Poetical sketches. How sweet I roamed from field to field (song) ; To the evening star ; My silks and fine array (song) ; I love the jocund dance (song) ; Memory, hither come (song) ; Mad song ; Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year (song) ; To the muses / William Blake -- from Songs of innocence. Introduction ; The shepherd ; The echoing green ; The lamb ; The little black boy ; The chimney-sweeper ; Laughing song ; A cradle song ; The divine image ; Holy Thursday ; Nurse's songs ; Infant joy / William Blake -- from Songs of experience. Introduction ; Earth's answer ; The clod and the pebble ; Holy Thursday ; The chimney-sweeper ; Nurse's song ; The sick rose ; The fly ; The angel ; The tiger ; Ah! Sunflower ; London ; The human abstract ; Infant sorrow ; To Tirzah / William Blake -- The book of Thel ; The French revolution : book the first ; The marriage of heaven and hell ; A song of liberty ; Auguries of innocence ; Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau ; from Milton / William Blake.

Supplement : further readings. The life and genuine character of Dean Swift ; Gulliver's travel, part II / Jonathan Swift -- The spectator, nos. 10, 519 / Richard Steele and Joseph Addison -- The Dunciad, book IV / Alexander Pope -- Conjectures on original composition / Edward Young -- Jubilate Agno / Christopher Smart -- A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful / Edmund Burke -- The seventh discourse (with Blake's notes) / Sir Joshua Reynolds.