Dodsley's
Collection
of Poetry, its contents and
contributors.
contributors.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09
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Verses spoke to the Lady Henrietta-Cavendish Holles Harley, in the Library
of St John's College, Cambridge, November the 9th, An. 1719. 1720.
4) Prologue to The Orphan. Represented by some of the Westminster-Scholars
at Hickford's Dancing-Room, the 2d of February, 1720. 1720.
The Conversation, a tale. 1720.
Colin's Mistakes. Written in imitation of Spenser's style. 1721.
Down-Hall, a poem. 1723.
The Turtle and the Sparrow. A poem. 1723.
Lyric Poems; being twenty-four Songs (never before printed) by the late
Matthew Prior, Esq. Set to Music by several Eminent Masters. 1741.
NOTE. It should be remembered that many poems by Prior were pub-
lished as broadsides, and that several poems attributed to him cannot be
said with certainty to be his. For a brief list of these, see Waller's edn,
ante, vol. II, p. 408.
(4) Biography and Criticism
Aitken, G. A. Matthew Prior. Contemporary Review. May 1890.
Bolingbroke, H. St John, Viscount. Letters and correspondence. 2 vols.
1798.
d. 98 Dartmouth. The MSS. of the Earl of Dartmouth. (Hist. Manuscripts Com-
mission. ) 1887, eto.
53 Dobson, A. Matthew Prior. New Princeton Review. Vol. vi. July 1888.
Longleat. Calendar of the MSS. of the Marquis of Bath preserved at
Longleat. 1904, etc.
spiel. Memoirs of Matthew Prior, with a copy of his will. 1722.
Roberts, W. Prior as a Book Collector. Athenaeum, 19 June 1897.
Sichel, W. Matthew Prior. Quarterly Review. Oct. 1899.
Taylor, W. Was Matthew Prior a Dorsetshire man? Longman's Magazine.
Oct. 1884.
Thackeray, W. M. Prior, Gay,and Pope. Lectures on the English Humourists.
Works. Biographical edn. Vol. vii. 1898.
Wukadinović, S. Prior in Deutschland. Grazer Studien zur deut. Philologie
iv. Graz, 1895.
THOMAS TICKELL
Oxford. 1707.
A Poem to his Excellency the Lord Privy-Seal on the Prospect of Peace.
&
3
R2:
&
baine de
be
1713. 3rd edn. 1713.
The First Book of Homer's Iliad. Trans. by Mr Tickell. 1715.
An Epistle from a Lady in England to a Gentleman at Avignon. 1717.
4th edn. 1717.
An Ode occasioned by Earl Stanhope's Voyage to France. 1718.
An Ode inscribed to the Earl of Sunderland at Windsor. 1720.
Works of Joseph Addison. Ed. Thomas Tickell. 4 vols. 1721. (Contains
Tickell's To Mr Addison on his opera of Rosamond and To the Earl of
Warwick on the death of Mr Addison. )
To Sir Godfrey Kneller at his Country Seat. 1722.
Kensington Gardens. 1722.
On Her Majesty's rebuilding the Lodgings of the Black Prince and Henry V
at Queen's College, Oxford. 1733.
indani
ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA
The Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea, edited by Myra Reynolds.
(With Bibliography. ) Chicago, 1903.
Miscellany poems, written by a lady. 1713.
Dowden, E. Essays, Modern and Elizabethan. 1910.
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Reynolds, Myra. The Treatment of Nature in English Poetry between
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Walpole, H. Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors. Ed. Park, T. Vol. Iv.
1806.
A. T. B.
T. S.
Section (ii)
MARY BARBER (1690 ? -1757)
Poems on Several Occasions. 1734.
SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE
Prince Arthur, an heroick poem in ten books. 1695.
King Arthur, an heroick poem in ten books. 1697.
Eliza, an epic poem in ten books. 1705.
The Nature of Man, a poem in three books. 1711.
Creation, a philosophical poem demonstrating the existence and providence
of God. 1712.
Redemption, a divine poem. 1722.
Alfred, an epic poem in twelve books. 1723.
JAMES BRAMSTON
The Art of Politicks; in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. 1729.
The Man of Taste, occasioned by an Epistle of Mr Pope's on that subject.
1733.
HENRY BROOKE
See bibliographies to chap. XII, and to vol. x, chap. III, post.
WILLIAM BROOME
Poems on several occasions. 1727, 2nd edn 1739.
As to his and Fenton's relations with Pope and his share in the trans-
lation of the Odyssey, see Pope's Correspondence, in Works, vol. vill, edd.
Elwin and Courthope.
ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE
Poems upon various subjecte, Latin and English. Ed. by his Son. 1768.
HENRY CAREY
Poems. 1713, 1720, 1729.
Chrononhotonthologos. 1734.
Dçamatic works. 1743.
ROBERT DODSLEY
A Muse in livery, or the Footman's Miscellany. 1732.
Beauty, or the Art of Charming, a poem. 1735.
The Toyshop, a dramatio satire. 1735.
Trifles. 1745.
The Oeconomy of Human Life. 1751.
Public Virtue, a poem in three books. 1753.
A Collection of Poems by several hands. Ed. Dodsley, R. 6 vols. 1748-58
Frequently rptd. Revised and continued by Pearch. 10 vols. 1775.
Courtney, W. P.
Dodsley's Collection of Poetry, its contents and
contributors. Privately printed. 1910.
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A Select Collection of Old Playg. Ed. Dodsley, R. 12 vols. 1744. Revised
by J. P. Collier. 12 vols. 1825-7. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 15 vols. 1874-6.
Straus, R. S. Robert Dodsley, Poet, Publisher, and Playwright. [With a
full bibliography. ] 1910.
STEPHEN DUCK
Poems on several subjects written by Stephen Duck, lately a poor thresher
in a barn in the county of Wilts. . . which were publickly read . . . to Her
Majesty. With a life. 1730, 9th edn 1733.
Truth and Falsehood. A fable. 1734.
Poems on several occasions. With an account of the author by Spence, J.
1736.
The Vision. A poem on the death of Queen Caroline. 1737.
RICHARD DUKE
Poems apon several subjects. 1717.
LAURENCE EUSDEN
A Letter to Mr Addison on the King's Accession to the throne. 1714. .
Verses at the last Publick Commencement at Cambridge. 1714.
A Poem to Her Royal Highness on the birth of the Prince. 1718.
ELIJAH FENTON
Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems. [1709. ]i
An Epistle to Mr Southerne. 1711.
Poems on several occasions. 1717.
Mariamne, a tragedy. 1723.
See also under William Broome, ante.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH
The Dispensary. 1699, 3rd edn 1699, 4th edn 1700, 9th edn 1726, 10th edn
1741.
Claremont. 1715.
Ovid's Metamorphoses in English verse. 1717.
Schenk, T. Sir Samuel Garth und seine Stellung zum komischen Epos.
Anglistische Forschungen. Heidelberg, 1900.
ANTHONY HAMMOND
A New Miscellany of original poems, translations, and imitations. . . published
by A. H(ammond]. 1720.
JAMES HAMMOND
Love Elegies. Written in the year 1732. With preface by the E. of
C[hesterfiel]d. 1743. Rptd by Park, T. , 1805 and by Dyer, G. , 1818.
WILLIAM HARRISON (1685-1713)
Woodstock Park. Ptd in Dodsley's Collection. I[Editor of The Tatler,
January-May 1711. ]
AARON HILL
Works. 4 vols. 1753. 2nd edn 1754.
Dramatic works. 2 vols. 1760.
Elfrid, or the Fair Inconstant. 1710. Re-written as Athelwold. 1732.
The Creation. 1720.
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Bibliography
John HUGHES
See vol. vini, bibliography to chap. VII.
HILDEBRAND JACOB
Works. 1735.
Chiron to Achilles, a poem. 1732.
The Nest of Playe. 1738.
WILLIAM KING
See bibliography to chap. v, ante.
GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANSDOWNE
Poems upon several occasions. 1712.
See also vol. viII, bibliography to chap. VII.
DAVID LEWIS
Miscellaneous Poems by several hands [including poems by Lewis, who
edited the collection). 1726. 2nd series. 1730.
Philip of Macedon, a tragedy. 1727.
DAVID MALLET
Works. 3 vols. 1759.
William and Margaret. [1723. ]
Eurydice, a tragedy. 1731.
Mustapha, a tragedy. 1739.
Alfred, a masque (with Thomson). 1740. New edn. 1751.
Amyntor and Theodora, or the Hermit. A poem in three cantos. 1747.
Britannia. 1755.
Edwin and Emma. 1760.
JOHN PHILIPS
Works. 1712, 1720.
The Splendid Shilling. 1705.
Blenheim. A poem. 1705.
Cerealia. An imitation of Milton. 1706.
Cyder. A poem. 1708.
Pastorals. 1710.
CHRISTOPHER PITT
A Poem on the death of the late Earl Stanhope. 1721.
Vida's Art of Poetry, translated into English Verse. 1725.
An Essay on Virgil's Aeneid, being a translation of the first book. 1728.
Virgil's Aeneid translated. 2 vols. 1740.
RICHARD SAVAGE
Works. 2 vols. 1775.
Sir Thomas Overbury, a tragedy. 1724.
The Bastard. 1728.
The Wanderer. 1729.
Various poems. 1761.
Markower, S. V. Richard Savage, a mystery in biography. [With a useful
bibliography. ) 1909.
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EDMUND SMITH
Works, with a life. 4th edn. 1729.
Phaedra and Hippolitus, a tragedy. [1709. ]
A Poem on the death of Mr John Philips. [1710. ]
GEORGE STEPNEY
An Epistle to Charles Montague, Esq. on His Majesty's voyage to Holland.
1691.
A Poem dedicated to the blessed memory of her late gracious Majesty Queen
Mary. 1695.
JOSEPH TRAPPA
Abramule, or Love and Empire, a tragedy. 1704.
Praelectiones poeticae. 1711-15. Eng.
Chapter VI
483
Verses spoke to the Lady Henrietta-Cavendish Holles Harley, in the Library
of St John's College, Cambridge, November the 9th, An. 1719. 1720.
4) Prologue to The Orphan. Represented by some of the Westminster-Scholars
at Hickford's Dancing-Room, the 2d of February, 1720. 1720.
The Conversation, a tale. 1720.
Colin's Mistakes. Written in imitation of Spenser's style. 1721.
Down-Hall, a poem. 1723.
The Turtle and the Sparrow. A poem. 1723.
Lyric Poems; being twenty-four Songs (never before printed) by the late
Matthew Prior, Esq. Set to Music by several Eminent Masters. 1741.
NOTE. It should be remembered that many poems by Prior were pub-
lished as broadsides, and that several poems attributed to him cannot be
said with certainty to be his. For a brief list of these, see Waller's edn,
ante, vol. II, p. 408.
(4) Biography and Criticism
Aitken, G. A. Matthew Prior. Contemporary Review. May 1890.
Bolingbroke, H. St John, Viscount. Letters and correspondence. 2 vols.
1798.
d. 98 Dartmouth. The MSS. of the Earl of Dartmouth. (Hist. Manuscripts Com-
mission. ) 1887, eto.
53 Dobson, A. Matthew Prior. New Princeton Review. Vol. vi. July 1888.
Longleat. Calendar of the MSS. of the Marquis of Bath preserved at
Longleat. 1904, etc.
spiel. Memoirs of Matthew Prior, with a copy of his will. 1722.
Roberts, W. Prior as a Book Collector. Athenaeum, 19 June 1897.
Sichel, W. Matthew Prior. Quarterly Review. Oct. 1899.
Taylor, W. Was Matthew Prior a Dorsetshire man? Longman's Magazine.
Oct. 1884.
Thackeray, W. M. Prior, Gay,and Pope. Lectures on the English Humourists.
Works. Biographical edn. Vol. vii. 1898.
Wukadinović, S. Prior in Deutschland. Grazer Studien zur deut. Philologie
iv. Graz, 1895.
THOMAS TICKELL
Oxford. 1707.
A Poem to his Excellency the Lord Privy-Seal on the Prospect of Peace.
&
3
R2:
&
baine de
be
1713. 3rd edn. 1713.
The First Book of Homer's Iliad. Trans. by Mr Tickell. 1715.
An Epistle from a Lady in England to a Gentleman at Avignon. 1717.
4th edn. 1717.
An Ode occasioned by Earl Stanhope's Voyage to France. 1718.
An Ode inscribed to the Earl of Sunderland at Windsor. 1720.
Works of Joseph Addison. Ed. Thomas Tickell. 4 vols. 1721. (Contains
Tickell's To Mr Addison on his opera of Rosamond and To the Earl of
Warwick on the death of Mr Addison. )
To Sir Godfrey Kneller at his Country Seat. 1722.
Kensington Gardens. 1722.
On Her Majesty's rebuilding the Lodgings of the Black Prince and Henry V
at Queen's College, Oxford. 1733.
indani
ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA
The Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea, edited by Myra Reynolds.
(With Bibliography. ) Chicago, 1903.
Miscellany poems, written by a lady. 1713.
Dowden, E. Essays, Modern and Elizabethan. 1910.
31-2
## p. 484 (#508) ############################################
484
Bibliography
Gosse, E. Gossip in a Library. 1891.
Reynolds, Myra. The Treatment of Nature in English Poetry between
Pope and Wordsworth. 1909.
Walpole, H. Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors. Ed. Park, T. Vol. Iv.
1806.
A. T. B.
T. S.
Section (ii)
MARY BARBER (1690 ? -1757)
Poems on Several Occasions. 1734.
SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE
Prince Arthur, an heroick poem in ten books. 1695.
King Arthur, an heroick poem in ten books. 1697.
Eliza, an epic poem in ten books. 1705.
The Nature of Man, a poem in three books. 1711.
Creation, a philosophical poem demonstrating the existence and providence
of God. 1712.
Redemption, a divine poem. 1722.
Alfred, an epic poem in twelve books. 1723.
JAMES BRAMSTON
The Art of Politicks; in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. 1729.
The Man of Taste, occasioned by an Epistle of Mr Pope's on that subject.
1733.
HENRY BROOKE
See bibliographies to chap. XII, and to vol. x, chap. III, post.
WILLIAM BROOME
Poems on several occasions. 1727, 2nd edn 1739.
As to his and Fenton's relations with Pope and his share in the trans-
lation of the Odyssey, see Pope's Correspondence, in Works, vol. vill, edd.
Elwin and Courthope.
ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE
Poems upon various subjecte, Latin and English. Ed. by his Son. 1768.
HENRY CAREY
Poems. 1713, 1720, 1729.
Chrononhotonthologos. 1734.
Dçamatic works. 1743.
ROBERT DODSLEY
A Muse in livery, or the Footman's Miscellany. 1732.
Beauty, or the Art of Charming, a poem. 1735.
The Toyshop, a dramatio satire. 1735.
Trifles. 1745.
The Oeconomy of Human Life. 1751.
Public Virtue, a poem in three books. 1753.
A Collection of Poems by several hands. Ed. Dodsley, R. 6 vols. 1748-58
Frequently rptd. Revised and continued by Pearch. 10 vols. 1775.
Courtney, W. P.
Dodsley's Collection of Poetry, its contents and
contributors. Privately printed. 1910.
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485
A Select Collection of Old Playg. Ed. Dodsley, R. 12 vols. 1744. Revised
by J. P. Collier. 12 vols. 1825-7. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 15 vols. 1874-6.
Straus, R. S. Robert Dodsley, Poet, Publisher, and Playwright. [With a
full bibliography. ] 1910.
STEPHEN DUCK
Poems on several subjects written by Stephen Duck, lately a poor thresher
in a barn in the county of Wilts. . . which were publickly read . . . to Her
Majesty. With a life. 1730, 9th edn 1733.
Truth and Falsehood. A fable. 1734.
Poems on several occasions. With an account of the author by Spence, J.
1736.
The Vision. A poem on the death of Queen Caroline. 1737.
RICHARD DUKE
Poems apon several subjects. 1717.
LAURENCE EUSDEN
A Letter to Mr Addison on the King's Accession to the throne. 1714. .
Verses at the last Publick Commencement at Cambridge. 1714.
A Poem to Her Royal Highness on the birth of the Prince. 1718.
ELIJAH FENTON
Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems. [1709. ]i
An Epistle to Mr Southerne. 1711.
Poems on several occasions. 1717.
Mariamne, a tragedy. 1723.
See also under William Broome, ante.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH
The Dispensary. 1699, 3rd edn 1699, 4th edn 1700, 9th edn 1726, 10th edn
1741.
Claremont. 1715.
Ovid's Metamorphoses in English verse. 1717.
Schenk, T. Sir Samuel Garth und seine Stellung zum komischen Epos.
Anglistische Forschungen. Heidelberg, 1900.
ANTHONY HAMMOND
A New Miscellany of original poems, translations, and imitations. . . published
by A. H(ammond]. 1720.
JAMES HAMMOND
Love Elegies. Written in the year 1732. With preface by the E. of
C[hesterfiel]d. 1743. Rptd by Park, T. , 1805 and by Dyer, G. , 1818.
WILLIAM HARRISON (1685-1713)
Woodstock Park. Ptd in Dodsley's Collection. I[Editor of The Tatler,
January-May 1711. ]
AARON HILL
Works. 4 vols. 1753. 2nd edn 1754.
Dramatic works. 2 vols. 1760.
Elfrid, or the Fair Inconstant. 1710. Re-written as Athelwold. 1732.
The Creation. 1720.
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486
Bibliography
John HUGHES
See vol. vini, bibliography to chap. VII.
HILDEBRAND JACOB
Works. 1735.
Chiron to Achilles, a poem. 1732.
The Nest of Playe. 1738.
WILLIAM KING
See bibliography to chap. v, ante.
GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANSDOWNE
Poems upon several occasions. 1712.
See also vol. viII, bibliography to chap. VII.
DAVID LEWIS
Miscellaneous Poems by several hands [including poems by Lewis, who
edited the collection). 1726. 2nd series. 1730.
Philip of Macedon, a tragedy. 1727.
DAVID MALLET
Works. 3 vols. 1759.
William and Margaret. [1723. ]
Eurydice, a tragedy. 1731.
Mustapha, a tragedy. 1739.
Alfred, a masque (with Thomson). 1740. New edn. 1751.
Amyntor and Theodora, or the Hermit. A poem in three cantos. 1747.
Britannia. 1755.
Edwin and Emma. 1760.
JOHN PHILIPS
Works. 1712, 1720.
The Splendid Shilling. 1705.
Blenheim. A poem. 1705.
Cerealia. An imitation of Milton. 1706.
Cyder. A poem. 1708.
Pastorals. 1710.
CHRISTOPHER PITT
A Poem on the death of the late Earl Stanhope. 1721.
Vida's Art of Poetry, translated into English Verse. 1725.
An Essay on Virgil's Aeneid, being a translation of the first book. 1728.
Virgil's Aeneid translated. 2 vols. 1740.
RICHARD SAVAGE
Works. 2 vols. 1775.
Sir Thomas Overbury, a tragedy. 1724.
The Bastard. 1728.
The Wanderer. 1729.
Various poems. 1761.
Markower, S. V. Richard Savage, a mystery in biography. [With a useful
bibliography. ) 1909.
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EDMUND SMITH
Works, with a life. 4th edn. 1729.
Phaedra and Hippolitus, a tragedy. [1709. ]
A Poem on the death of Mr John Philips. [1710. ]
GEORGE STEPNEY
An Epistle to Charles Montague, Esq. on His Majesty's voyage to Holland.
1691.
A Poem dedicated to the blessed memory of her late gracious Majesty Queen
Mary. 1695.
JOSEPH TRAPPA
Abramule, or Love and Empire, a tragedy. 1704.
Praelectiones poeticae. 1711-15. Eng.
