In Appendix to Intro-
duction to Phelps's Selections from the Poetry and Prose of T.
duction to Phelps's Selections from the Poetry and Prose of T.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
Strictures, Critical and Sentimental, on Thomson's Seasons.
E. L. X,
29
1777.
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Bibliography
Morel, Léon. James Thomson, sa vie et ses autres. Paris, 1895.
Musidorus : a Poem sacred to the memory of Mr James Thomson. [1748. ]
Phillimore, Sir R. J. Memoirs and Correspondence of George, Lord Lyttelton.
1845.
Schmeding, G. A. Jacob Thomson, ein vergessener Dichter des achtzehnten
Jahrhunderts. Braunschweig, 1889.
Shairp, J. C. On Poetic Interpretation of Nature. Edinburgh, 1877.
See, also, bibliography to chap. VII, post.
CHAPTER VI
GRAY
For an account of the extant manuscripts of Gray, see notes at end of
Gray's Poems, ed. Bradshaw, J. (Aldine edn), 1891.
A. EDITIONS PRINTED IN GRAY'S LIFETIME
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Dodsley. 1747. (Published
anonymously. )
Dodsley's collection (vol. 11, 1748) contains the Eton Ode (anon. ), the
Ode on the Spring, and the Ode on the death of a favourite Cat, the last
two for the first time.
An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard. Dodsley. 1751. 2nd edn, 1751;
4th edn, 1751. (With an Advertisement by Horace Walpole. )
Printed also in The Magazine of Magazines, Feb. 28, 1751; in The
London Magazine, Feb. 28; in The Scots Magazine, Mar. 31; in The
Grand Magazine of Magazines, April 30. 8th edn, 1753; 9th edn, 1754.
Facsimile of the original manuscript of the Elegy in Pembroke College,
Cambridge. 1897.
Designs by Mr R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr T. Gray. 1753, 1765. (The
Ode on the Spring; On the death of a favourite cat; On a Distant
Prospect of Eton; Hymn to Adversity; Long Story; Elegy. )
Odes by Mr Gray. Strawberry Hill, 1757.
Poems by Mr Gray. 1768. Glasgow, 1768. New edn. 1770.
Ode performed in the Senate House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769, at the
Installation of His Grace Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton,
Chancellor of the University. Cambridge, 1769.
B. LATER EDITIONS, INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE
Gray's Poems are contained in the principal collections of British Poets
(Bell, Johnson, Anderson, Chalmers, etc. ).
The Poems of Mr Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and
Writings. By Mason, W. York, 1775. Another edn. 4 vols. 1778.
Poems. 1776, 1778, 1786, 1799 (ed. Jones, S. ).
Matthisson, F. von. Letters written from . . . the Continent. . . . With an
Appendix in which are included three Letters of Gray's. 1799.
Gray's Works. Ed. Mason, W. , with extracts from Gray's MSS by Mathias,
T. J. 2 vols. 1814.
Mason, W. Poems. 1764. 5th edn. York, 1779. New edn. 3 vols.
York, 1796-7.
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8
Poems, with Life, Notes, and an Essay on his Poetry by Mitford, J. 1814.
Works, with a Life of the Author and an Essay on his Poetry, by Mitford, J.
2 vols. 1816.
Poetical Works, with Life etc. by Mitford, J. (Aldine Poets. ) 1830.
Works, etc. Ed. Mitford, J. 4 vols. 1836. Vol. v, containing Gray's cor-
respondence with Nicholls, etc. 1843.
Poetical Works. Ed. Moultrie, J. Eton, 1845.
with a new life by Mitford, J. 1847.
- with the new life, and a Lecture on the writings of Gray by the Earl of
Carlisle. 4th edn. Eton, 1852. 5th edn. 1854. Other edns, 1863, 1866.
The Correspondence of Gray and Mason, etc. Ed. Mitford, J. 1853. 2nd edn.
1855.
Poems of Gray, Parnell, Collins, Green, and Warton. 1853. Ed. Willmott,
R. A. [The account of Gray is brief, but excellent. ]
Works. Ed. Gosse, E. 4 vols. 1884.
Gray and his friends. Letters and relics. Ed. Tovey, D. C. Cambridge, 1890.
Poetical Works, New Aldine Edition, with Life, Notes, and Bibliography
by Bradshaw, J. 1891.
English Poems of Gray. Ed. Tovey, D. O. Cambridge, 1898.
Gray's Letters. Ed. Tovey, D. C. 3 vols. 1900-12.
[Gives evidence of Sir Walter Scott's interest in Norse literature. ]
For translations and parodies see Bradshaw's bibliography, supra.
C. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
See, also, sec. B.
Arnold, M. Introduction to the selection from Gray's Poems, printed in
T. H. Ward's English Poets, vol. 111. 1880.
Gosse, E. Gray. (English Men of Letters. ) 1882. New edn. 1889.
Johnson, Samuel. Gray. Lives of the Poets. Ed. Hill, G. B.
Vol. III.
Oxford, 1905. (For criticisms of the above see Bradshaw, U. S. p. 317. ]
Kittredge, G. L. Gray's Knowledge of Old Norse.
In Appendix to Intro-
duction to Phelps's Selections from the Poetry and Prose of T. Gray.
Boston, 1894.
Mackenzie, Henry. Introduction to Gray's Fatal Sisters (1768). In Works,
vol. VIII. Edinburgh, 1808.
Mathias, T. J. Observations on the writings and on the character of Mr Gray.
1815.
Stephen, Sir L. Thomas Gray. D. of N. B. vol. XXIII. 1890.
CHAPTER VII
YOUNG, COLLINS, AND LESSER POETS OF THE AGE OF
JOHNSON
I. GENERAL
A. Collections
The principal works of the writers treated in this chapter will be found
in the following Collections of British Poets :
The Poets of Great Britain from Chaucer to Churchill. (Bell's edn. ) 109 vols.
Edinburgh, 1777–92.
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452
Bibliography
The Works of the English Poets: with prefaces biographical and critical by
Johnson, S. 68 vols. 1779-81.
The Works of the British Poets. Ed. Anderson, R. 14 vols. Edinburgh,
1793-1807.
The Works of the British Poets. Ed. Park, T. 48 vols. 1805-9.
The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper including the
series ed. , with prefaces critical and biographical, by Dr Samuel Johnson,
and the most approved translations. With additional lives by Chalmers, A.
21 vols. 1810.
B. Biography and Criticism
See, also, vol. ix, bibliography to chap. vi, sec. 1, B.
Millar, J. H. The mid-eighteenth century. (Periods of European literature. )
Edinburgh, 1902.
Seccombe, T. The Age of Johnson (1748-98). 1900.
II. PARTICULAR WRITERS
Mark Akenside
Poems. Ed. Dyson, J. 1772.
Poetical Works. Ed. Dyce, A. , with a Life. (Aldine Poets. ) 1835 and 1857.
Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer. Ed. Willmott, R. A. 1855.
A British Philippic. 1738.
The Pleasures of Imagination. A poem in three parts. 1744. 4th edn.
1744. Ed. Mrs Barbauld. 1795.
Transl. into French prose by Holbach, P. H. D. von, Amsterdam, 1759,
and also into German and Italian.
An Epistle to Curio [i. e. William Pulteney, earl of Bath]. 1744.
Odes on several subjects. 1745. 2nd edn. 1760.
An Ode to the Rt Hon. the Earl of Huntingdon. 1748.
The Remonstrance of Shakespeare. 1749.
An Ode to the Country Gentlemen of England. 1758.
Ode to the late Thomas Edwards, Esq. written in the year 1751. 1766.
Bucke, C. On the life, writings, and genius of Akenside; with some account
of his friends. 1832.
Cooper, J. G. The Call of Aristippus. 1758. [A panegyric of Akenside. ]
John Armstrong
The Economy of Love. A poetical essay. 1736. New edn, revised, 1768. 1781.
The Art of preserving Health. A poem. 1744. 2nd edn. 1745. Ed. Aikin, J.
1795. 1803.
Transl. into Italian verse by Mathias, T. J. , Naples, 1824.
Benevolence. An epistle. 1751.
Taste. An Epistle to a young critic. 1753.
Sketches or essays on various subjects, in two parts. By Launcelot Temple
[i. e. John Armstrong). 1758.
A Day. An epistle to John Wilkes, of Aylesbury, Esq. 1761.
Miscellanies. 2 vols. 1770.
Henry Baker (1698-1774)
Original Poems. 1725.
The Universe. A Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man. (1727. ]
With a Life. 1805.
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453
John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-1796)
Sixteen Sonnets. 1778.
James Beattie
(1) Collected Editions
Poetical Works. Ed. , with a Life, by Dyce, A. (Aldine Poets. ) 1831 and 1866.
Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer. With Lives, etc. , by
Gilfillan, G. Edinburgh, 1854.
The Poetical Works of James Beattie and William Colling. With memoirs
of their lives and writings by Miller, T. Illustrated. 1846.
(2) Particular Works
Original poems and translations. 1761. 2nd edn. 1766.
The Judgment of Paris. A poem. 1765.
An Essay on Truth. 1770. 4th edn, 1773; 7th edn, 1807.
Transl. into French, German, Italian and Dutch.
The Minstrel, or the Progress of Genius. A poem. 2 parts. 1771-4. New
edn, with a few other poems. 1777. 1807. 1819. Rptd and illustrated by
Foster, B. 1858.
Essays. On poetry and music. On laughter. On the utility of classical
learning. Edinburgh, 1776.
Dissertations moral and critical.
E. L. X,
29
1777.
## p. 450 (#476) ############################################
450
Bibliography
Morel, Léon. James Thomson, sa vie et ses autres. Paris, 1895.
Musidorus : a Poem sacred to the memory of Mr James Thomson. [1748. ]
Phillimore, Sir R. J. Memoirs and Correspondence of George, Lord Lyttelton.
1845.
Schmeding, G. A. Jacob Thomson, ein vergessener Dichter des achtzehnten
Jahrhunderts. Braunschweig, 1889.
Shairp, J. C. On Poetic Interpretation of Nature. Edinburgh, 1877.
See, also, bibliography to chap. VII, post.
CHAPTER VI
GRAY
For an account of the extant manuscripts of Gray, see notes at end of
Gray's Poems, ed. Bradshaw, J. (Aldine edn), 1891.
A. EDITIONS PRINTED IN GRAY'S LIFETIME
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Dodsley. 1747. (Published
anonymously. )
Dodsley's collection (vol. 11, 1748) contains the Eton Ode (anon. ), the
Ode on the Spring, and the Ode on the death of a favourite Cat, the last
two for the first time.
An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard. Dodsley. 1751. 2nd edn, 1751;
4th edn, 1751. (With an Advertisement by Horace Walpole. )
Printed also in The Magazine of Magazines, Feb. 28, 1751; in The
London Magazine, Feb. 28; in The Scots Magazine, Mar. 31; in The
Grand Magazine of Magazines, April 30. 8th edn, 1753; 9th edn, 1754.
Facsimile of the original manuscript of the Elegy in Pembroke College,
Cambridge. 1897.
Designs by Mr R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr T. Gray. 1753, 1765. (The
Ode on the Spring; On the death of a favourite cat; On a Distant
Prospect of Eton; Hymn to Adversity; Long Story; Elegy. )
Odes by Mr Gray. Strawberry Hill, 1757.
Poems by Mr Gray. 1768. Glasgow, 1768. New edn. 1770.
Ode performed in the Senate House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769, at the
Installation of His Grace Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton,
Chancellor of the University. Cambridge, 1769.
B. LATER EDITIONS, INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE
Gray's Poems are contained in the principal collections of British Poets
(Bell, Johnson, Anderson, Chalmers, etc. ).
The Poems of Mr Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and
Writings. By Mason, W. York, 1775. Another edn. 4 vols. 1778.
Poems. 1776, 1778, 1786, 1799 (ed. Jones, S. ).
Matthisson, F. von. Letters written from . . . the Continent. . . . With an
Appendix in which are included three Letters of Gray's. 1799.
Gray's Works. Ed. Mason, W. , with extracts from Gray's MSS by Mathias,
T. J. 2 vols. 1814.
Mason, W. Poems. 1764. 5th edn. York, 1779. New edn. 3 vols.
York, 1796-7.
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451
8
Poems, with Life, Notes, and an Essay on his Poetry by Mitford, J. 1814.
Works, with a Life of the Author and an Essay on his Poetry, by Mitford, J.
2 vols. 1816.
Poetical Works, with Life etc. by Mitford, J. (Aldine Poets. ) 1830.
Works, etc. Ed. Mitford, J. 4 vols. 1836. Vol. v, containing Gray's cor-
respondence with Nicholls, etc. 1843.
Poetical Works. Ed. Moultrie, J. Eton, 1845.
with a new life by Mitford, J. 1847.
- with the new life, and a Lecture on the writings of Gray by the Earl of
Carlisle. 4th edn. Eton, 1852. 5th edn. 1854. Other edns, 1863, 1866.
The Correspondence of Gray and Mason, etc. Ed. Mitford, J. 1853. 2nd edn.
1855.
Poems of Gray, Parnell, Collins, Green, and Warton. 1853. Ed. Willmott,
R. A. [The account of Gray is brief, but excellent. ]
Works. Ed. Gosse, E. 4 vols. 1884.
Gray and his friends. Letters and relics. Ed. Tovey, D. C. Cambridge, 1890.
Poetical Works, New Aldine Edition, with Life, Notes, and Bibliography
by Bradshaw, J. 1891.
English Poems of Gray. Ed. Tovey, D. O. Cambridge, 1898.
Gray's Letters. Ed. Tovey, D. C. 3 vols. 1900-12.
[Gives evidence of Sir Walter Scott's interest in Norse literature. ]
For translations and parodies see Bradshaw's bibliography, supra.
C. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
See, also, sec. B.
Arnold, M. Introduction to the selection from Gray's Poems, printed in
T. H. Ward's English Poets, vol. 111. 1880.
Gosse, E. Gray. (English Men of Letters. ) 1882. New edn. 1889.
Johnson, Samuel. Gray. Lives of the Poets. Ed. Hill, G. B.
Vol. III.
Oxford, 1905. (For criticisms of the above see Bradshaw, U. S. p. 317. ]
Kittredge, G. L. Gray's Knowledge of Old Norse.
In Appendix to Intro-
duction to Phelps's Selections from the Poetry and Prose of T. Gray.
Boston, 1894.
Mackenzie, Henry. Introduction to Gray's Fatal Sisters (1768). In Works,
vol. VIII. Edinburgh, 1808.
Mathias, T. J. Observations on the writings and on the character of Mr Gray.
1815.
Stephen, Sir L. Thomas Gray. D. of N. B. vol. XXIII. 1890.
CHAPTER VII
YOUNG, COLLINS, AND LESSER POETS OF THE AGE OF
JOHNSON
I. GENERAL
A. Collections
The principal works of the writers treated in this chapter will be found
in the following Collections of British Poets :
The Poets of Great Britain from Chaucer to Churchill. (Bell's edn. ) 109 vols.
Edinburgh, 1777–92.
29-2
## p. 452 (#478) ############################################
452
Bibliography
The Works of the English Poets: with prefaces biographical and critical by
Johnson, S. 68 vols. 1779-81.
The Works of the British Poets. Ed. Anderson, R. 14 vols. Edinburgh,
1793-1807.
The Works of the British Poets. Ed. Park, T. 48 vols. 1805-9.
The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper including the
series ed. , with prefaces critical and biographical, by Dr Samuel Johnson,
and the most approved translations. With additional lives by Chalmers, A.
21 vols. 1810.
B. Biography and Criticism
See, also, vol. ix, bibliography to chap. vi, sec. 1, B.
Millar, J. H. The mid-eighteenth century. (Periods of European literature. )
Edinburgh, 1902.
Seccombe, T. The Age of Johnson (1748-98). 1900.
II. PARTICULAR WRITERS
Mark Akenside
Poems. Ed. Dyson, J. 1772.
Poetical Works. Ed. Dyce, A. , with a Life. (Aldine Poets. ) 1835 and 1857.
Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer. Ed. Willmott, R. A. 1855.
A British Philippic. 1738.
The Pleasures of Imagination. A poem in three parts. 1744. 4th edn.
1744. Ed. Mrs Barbauld. 1795.
Transl. into French prose by Holbach, P. H. D. von, Amsterdam, 1759,
and also into German and Italian.
An Epistle to Curio [i. e. William Pulteney, earl of Bath]. 1744.
Odes on several subjects. 1745. 2nd edn. 1760.
An Ode to the Rt Hon. the Earl of Huntingdon. 1748.
The Remonstrance of Shakespeare. 1749.
An Ode to the Country Gentlemen of England. 1758.
Ode to the late Thomas Edwards, Esq. written in the year 1751. 1766.
Bucke, C. On the life, writings, and genius of Akenside; with some account
of his friends. 1832.
Cooper, J. G. The Call of Aristippus. 1758. [A panegyric of Akenside. ]
John Armstrong
The Economy of Love. A poetical essay. 1736. New edn, revised, 1768. 1781.
The Art of preserving Health. A poem. 1744. 2nd edn. 1745. Ed. Aikin, J.
1795. 1803.
Transl. into Italian verse by Mathias, T. J. , Naples, 1824.
Benevolence. An epistle. 1751.
Taste. An Epistle to a young critic. 1753.
Sketches or essays on various subjects, in two parts. By Launcelot Temple
[i. e. John Armstrong). 1758.
A Day. An epistle to John Wilkes, of Aylesbury, Esq. 1761.
Miscellanies. 2 vols. 1770.
Henry Baker (1698-1774)
Original Poems. 1725.
The Universe. A Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man. (1727. ]
With a Life. 1805.
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453
John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-1796)
Sixteen Sonnets. 1778.
James Beattie
(1) Collected Editions
Poetical Works. Ed. , with a Life, by Dyce, A. (Aldine Poets. ) 1831 and 1866.
Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer. With Lives, etc. , by
Gilfillan, G. Edinburgh, 1854.
The Poetical Works of James Beattie and William Colling. With memoirs
of their lives and writings by Miller, T. Illustrated. 1846.
(2) Particular Works
Original poems and translations. 1761. 2nd edn. 1766.
The Judgment of Paris. A poem. 1765.
An Essay on Truth. 1770. 4th edn, 1773; 7th edn, 1807.
Transl. into French, German, Italian and Dutch.
The Minstrel, or the Progress of Genius. A poem. 2 parts. 1771-4. New
edn, with a few other poems. 1777. 1807. 1819. Rptd and illustrated by
Foster, B. 1858.
Essays. On poetry and music. On laughter. On the utility of classical
learning. Edinburgh, 1776.
Dissertations moral and critical.
