The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper
including
the series
ed.
ed.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09
] 1713-14.
[Republished in 1714
as the 'Lay Monastery. ']
The Works of Mr Edmund Spenser. . . . With a glossary explaining the old
and obscure words. 6 vols. 1715.
A pollo and Daphne: A Masque. 1716.
An Ode for the birthday of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.
1716.
A Layman's Thoughts on the late treatment of the Bishop of Bangor.
1717.
Charon, or The Ferry-Boat. A Vision. Dedicated to the Swiss Count
[J. J. Heidegger. ] 1719.
The Ecstacy: An Ode. 1720.
The Siege of Damascus: A Tragedy. 1720.
Letters of Abelard and Heloise. . . . Extracted chiefly from Monsieur Bayle.
Translated from the French. 1722.
Poems on Several Occasions, with some select Essays in Prose. Ed. Dun-
combe, W. 2 vols. 1735.
(Hughes's Poems are in the ordinary collections, including Johnson's
(with a Life). ]
The Complicated Guilt of the late Rebellion. 1745. (Written in 1716. ]
Letters by several eminent Persons deceased, ed. by Rev. John Duncombe.
(Contains Hughes's correspondence, some new pieces, and the original
plan of the 'Siege of Damascus. '] 1773.
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478
Bibliography
WILLIAM KING, D. C. L.
A. Collected Works
Miscellanies, in Prose and Verse. [1705. ]
Remains of Dr William King. (Ed. Brown, J. ] 1732.
Posthumous Works of Dr William King. Ed. Browne, Joseph, M. D. 1734.
The Original Works of William King, LL. D. , with historical notes, and
memoirs of the Author. (By John Nichols. ] 3 vols. 1776.
8
:
B. Single Works
Reflections upon Mons. Varillas's History of Heresy. (With Edward Han-
nes. ] 1688.
A Dialogue showing the Way to Modern Preferment. [1690. ]
Animadversions on a pretended Account of Denmark. 1694.
A Journey to London in the year 1698. After the ingenious method of that
made by Dr Martin Lister to Paris in the same year. Written originally
in French, by Monsieur Sorbière, and newly translated into English.
1698.
A short Account of Dr Bentley's Humanity and Justice. 1699.
Dialogues of the Dead, relating to the present controversy concerning the
Epistles of Phalaris. 1699.
The Furmetary. A very innocent and harmless Poem. 1699.
The Transactioner, with some of his Philosophical Fancies, in two Dialogues.
1700.
Molly of Mountown. 1704.
The Fairy Feast. Written by the Author of A Tale of a Tub. [This is the
same piece as ‘Orpheus and Euridice. ') 1704.
The Art of Cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry: with some
Letters to Dr Lister and others, occasioned principally by the title of a
book published by the Doctor, being the works of Apicius Caelius, con-
cerning the Soups and Sauces of the Ancients. (1708. ]
The Art of Love: In Imitation of Ovid de Arte Amandi. 1709.
Useful Transactions in Philosophy and other sorts of Learning, to be con-
tinued monthly, as they sell. [3 parts. ] 1709.
A friendly Letter from honest Tom Boggy to the Rer. Mr Goddard, Canon
of Windsor. 1710.
A second Letter to Mr Goddard, occasioned by the late Panegyric given him
by the Review. 1710.
A Vindication of the Rev. Dr Sacheverell. 1711.
Mr Bisset's Recantation. 1711.
An Answer to a second scandalous Book that Mr Bisset is now writing. 1711.
Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes. 1711. (Fourth edn,
1727. ]
Rufinus, or an Historical Essay on the favourite Ministry under Theodosius
and his son Arcadius. 1711.
Useful Miscellanies, Part the First. 1712.
Britain's Palladium, or Lord Bolingbroke's Welcome from France. 1712.
Apple Pye. [Printed in The Northern Atlantis. ] 1713.
An Essay on Civil Government. 1776.
C. Appendix
A Letter to Dr W. King, occasioned by his Art of Cookery. [An attack. ]
A Pindarick Ode to the memory of Dr William King. [A eulogy. ] 1712.
1708.
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Chapter V
479
GERARD LANGBAINE
The Hunter: A discourse of Horsemanship. Oxford, 1685.
Momus Triumphans, or the Plagiaries of the English Stage exposed. 1688.
A new Catalogue of English Plays. 1688.
An Account of the English Dramatic Poets, or some observations and
remarks on the lives and writings of all those that have published either
comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces,
or operas, in the English Tongue. Oxford, 1691.
The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets: First began by
Mr Langbain, improved and continued down to this time by a careful
Hand. [Gildon. ] 1699.
JAMES PUCKLE (1667 ? -1724)
The Club, or A Dialogue between Father and Son, in vino veritas. 1711.
New edns, 1834 and 1890.
THOMAS RYMER
See bibliographies to vol. viII, chapters VI B and vii, also to chapters
vii and viri of the present volume
John UPTON
Epicteti quae supersunt dissertationes ab Arriano collectae. . . . Recensuit
notisque illustravit J. Uptonus. 1739. [Another edition, 2 vols. 1744.
Upton’s notes were used by Schweighäuser in his edition of 1799-1800. ]
Critical Observations on Shakespeare. 1746. [Second edition, 1748. ]
A new Canto of Spenser's 'Fairie Queene. [? by Upton. ] 1747.
A letter concerning a new Edition of Spenser's 'Fairie Queene. To Gilbert
West, Esq. 1751.
Spenser's 'Fairie Queene'. . . With a glossary and notes by John Upton.
1758. (In An impartial Estimate of the Reverend Mr Upton's Notes on
the Fairy Queen, 1759, Upton is charged with copying from Warton
without acknowledgment. ]
CHAPTER VI
LESSER VERSE WRITERS
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.
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, B. 14 vols. Edinburgh,
1793-1807.
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480
Bibliography
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 biographical and critical, by Dr Samuel Johnson, and
the most approved translations. With additional lives by Aler. Chalmers.
21 vols. 1810.
B. Biography and Criticism
Beljame, A. Le public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre au 18me siècle,
1660-1744. Paris, 1881.
Cibber, Theophilus. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland.
5 vols. 1753.
Courthope, W. J. A history of English Poetry. Vol. v. 1905.
Elton, 0. The Augustan Ages. Edinburgh, 1899.
Gosse, E. A history of eighteenth century literature. 1889.
Hettner, H. J. T. Literaturgeschichte d. 18. Jahrhunderts. 3rd edn. VoL L.
Gesch. der englischen Literatur, 1660-70. Brunswick, 1872.
Johnson, S. The Lives of the English Poets. Ed. Hill, G. Birkbeck. 3 vols.
Oxford, 1905.
Pope, Alexander. Works. Edd. Elwin, W. and Courthope, W. J. 10 vols.
1871-89.
Rémusat, C. F. M. de. L'Angleterre an 18me siècle. New edn. 2 vols. Paris,
1865.
Saintsbury, G. A history of Criticism. Vol. 11. Edinburgh, 1902.
A history of English Prosody. Vol. 11. 1908.
Spence, Joseph. Anecdotes, observations, and characters of books and men.
Ed. Singer, S. W. 2nd edn. 1858.
Ward, T. H. The English Poets. Selections with critical introductions by
various authors, and a general introduction by Arnold, Matthew. 2nd
odn. Vol. III. 1884.
II. PARTICULAR WRITERS
Section (i)
JOHN GAY
(1) Collected editions
Poems. 1720, 1727, 1752.
Works. 4 vols. Dublin, 1770.
Poetical, dramatic, and miscellaneous works, with Johnson's life. 6 vols
1793.
Poetical works. Ed. Underhill, J. (The Muses Library. ) 2 vols. 1893.
(2) Poems published separately
Wine, a poem. 1708.
Rural Sports, a Georgic inscribed to Mr Pope. 1713.
Translated in part into Italian verse by Ercolani, C. 1886.
The Fan, a poem in three books. 1713.
The Shepherd's Week. In six pastorals. 1714.
A Letter to a lady, occasioned by the arrival of Her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales. 1714.
A Journey to Exeter. 1715.
Trivia, or the art of walking the streets of London. 1716.
An Epistle to the Duchess of Marlborough. 1722.
Fables. 1727, 4th edn 1733, 1736.
2nd series. 1738.
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481
Fables complete. 1750,1762, 1779 (with Bewick's cuts), 1793, 1796 (with life by
Coxe, W. ), 1816, 1854 (with memoir by Owen, O. F. ), 1882 (ed. Dobson, A. ,
with a bibliography). Trans. into French, 1759, 1811, 1857, etc. ; into
Italian, 1767, 1773; into Latin, by Anstey, C. , 1798.
Gay’s Chair. Poems, never before printed, by J. Gay; with a sketch of his
life from the manuscripts of Butler, J. Ed. Lee, H. 1820.
(3) Plays published separately
The Mohocks. A tragi-comical farce. 1712.
The Wife of Bath. A comedy. 1713. Republished, 1730.
The What d’ye call it. A tragi-comi-pastoral farce. 1715, 3rd edn 1716.
(Contains 'Twas when the seas were roaring. )
Three Hours after Marriage. A comedy. (By Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot. )
1717.
The Captives. A tragedy. 1724.
The Beggar's Opera. 1728, 4th edn 1735, 7th edn 1754. Ed. Macleod,
G. H. 1905.
Polly. An opera. Being the second part of The Beggar's Opera. 1729.
These two ed. , with introd, and notes, by Sarrazin, G. , Weimar, 1898.
Acis and Galatea. An English pastoral opera. 1732.
Achilles. An opera. 1733.
The Distressed Wife. A comedy. 1743, 2nd edn 1750.
The Rehearsal at Goatham. 1754.
(4) Biography and Criticism
See, also, subsections (1) and (2), ante.
ta's Coxe, W. Life of Gay. 2nd edn.
B Bruce, J. D. Some unpublished translations from Ariosto, by John Gay.
Rptd from Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen etc. Vol.
CXXIII. Brunswick, 1910.
Hazlitt, W. On Swift, Young, Gray, Collins, etc. Lectures on the English
Poets, Works, edd. Waller, A. R. and Glover, A. Vol. v. 1902.
as the 'Lay Monastery. ']
The Works of Mr Edmund Spenser. . . . With a glossary explaining the old
and obscure words. 6 vols. 1715.
A pollo and Daphne: A Masque. 1716.
An Ode for the birthday of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.
1716.
A Layman's Thoughts on the late treatment of the Bishop of Bangor.
1717.
Charon, or The Ferry-Boat. A Vision. Dedicated to the Swiss Count
[J. J. Heidegger. ] 1719.
The Ecstacy: An Ode. 1720.
The Siege of Damascus: A Tragedy. 1720.
Letters of Abelard and Heloise. . . . Extracted chiefly from Monsieur Bayle.
Translated from the French. 1722.
Poems on Several Occasions, with some select Essays in Prose. Ed. Dun-
combe, W. 2 vols. 1735.
(Hughes's Poems are in the ordinary collections, including Johnson's
(with a Life). ]
The Complicated Guilt of the late Rebellion. 1745. (Written in 1716. ]
Letters by several eminent Persons deceased, ed. by Rev. John Duncombe.
(Contains Hughes's correspondence, some new pieces, and the original
plan of the 'Siege of Damascus. '] 1773.
## p. 478 (#502) ############################################
478
Bibliography
WILLIAM KING, D. C. L.
A. Collected Works
Miscellanies, in Prose and Verse. [1705. ]
Remains of Dr William King. (Ed. Brown, J. ] 1732.
Posthumous Works of Dr William King. Ed. Browne, Joseph, M. D. 1734.
The Original Works of William King, LL. D. , with historical notes, and
memoirs of the Author. (By John Nichols. ] 3 vols. 1776.
8
:
B. Single Works
Reflections upon Mons. Varillas's History of Heresy. (With Edward Han-
nes. ] 1688.
A Dialogue showing the Way to Modern Preferment. [1690. ]
Animadversions on a pretended Account of Denmark. 1694.
A Journey to London in the year 1698. After the ingenious method of that
made by Dr Martin Lister to Paris in the same year. Written originally
in French, by Monsieur Sorbière, and newly translated into English.
1698.
A short Account of Dr Bentley's Humanity and Justice. 1699.
Dialogues of the Dead, relating to the present controversy concerning the
Epistles of Phalaris. 1699.
The Furmetary. A very innocent and harmless Poem. 1699.
The Transactioner, with some of his Philosophical Fancies, in two Dialogues.
1700.
Molly of Mountown. 1704.
The Fairy Feast. Written by the Author of A Tale of a Tub. [This is the
same piece as ‘Orpheus and Euridice. ') 1704.
The Art of Cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry: with some
Letters to Dr Lister and others, occasioned principally by the title of a
book published by the Doctor, being the works of Apicius Caelius, con-
cerning the Soups and Sauces of the Ancients. (1708. ]
The Art of Love: In Imitation of Ovid de Arte Amandi. 1709.
Useful Transactions in Philosophy and other sorts of Learning, to be con-
tinued monthly, as they sell. [3 parts. ] 1709.
A friendly Letter from honest Tom Boggy to the Rer. Mr Goddard, Canon
of Windsor. 1710.
A second Letter to Mr Goddard, occasioned by the late Panegyric given him
by the Review. 1710.
A Vindication of the Rev. Dr Sacheverell. 1711.
Mr Bisset's Recantation. 1711.
An Answer to a second scandalous Book that Mr Bisset is now writing. 1711.
Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes. 1711. (Fourth edn,
1727. ]
Rufinus, or an Historical Essay on the favourite Ministry under Theodosius
and his son Arcadius. 1711.
Useful Miscellanies, Part the First. 1712.
Britain's Palladium, or Lord Bolingbroke's Welcome from France. 1712.
Apple Pye. [Printed in The Northern Atlantis. ] 1713.
An Essay on Civil Government. 1776.
C. Appendix
A Letter to Dr W. King, occasioned by his Art of Cookery. [An attack. ]
A Pindarick Ode to the memory of Dr William King. [A eulogy. ] 1712.
1708.
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Chapter V
479
GERARD LANGBAINE
The Hunter: A discourse of Horsemanship. Oxford, 1685.
Momus Triumphans, or the Plagiaries of the English Stage exposed. 1688.
A new Catalogue of English Plays. 1688.
An Account of the English Dramatic Poets, or some observations and
remarks on the lives and writings of all those that have published either
comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces,
or operas, in the English Tongue. Oxford, 1691.
The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets: First began by
Mr Langbain, improved and continued down to this time by a careful
Hand. [Gildon. ] 1699.
JAMES PUCKLE (1667 ? -1724)
The Club, or A Dialogue between Father and Son, in vino veritas. 1711.
New edns, 1834 and 1890.
THOMAS RYMER
See bibliographies to vol. viII, chapters VI B and vii, also to chapters
vii and viri of the present volume
John UPTON
Epicteti quae supersunt dissertationes ab Arriano collectae. . . . Recensuit
notisque illustravit J. Uptonus. 1739. [Another edition, 2 vols. 1744.
Upton’s notes were used by Schweighäuser in his edition of 1799-1800. ]
Critical Observations on Shakespeare. 1746. [Second edition, 1748. ]
A new Canto of Spenser's 'Fairie Queene. [? by Upton. ] 1747.
A letter concerning a new Edition of Spenser's 'Fairie Queene. To Gilbert
West, Esq. 1751.
Spenser's 'Fairie Queene'. . . With a glossary and notes by John Upton.
1758. (In An impartial Estimate of the Reverend Mr Upton's Notes on
the Fairy Queen, 1759, Upton is charged with copying from Warton
without acknowledgment. ]
CHAPTER VI
LESSER VERSE WRITERS
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.
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, B. 14 vols. Edinburgh,
1793-1807.
## p. 480 (#504) ############################################
480
Bibliography
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 biographical and critical, by Dr Samuel Johnson, and
the most approved translations. With additional lives by Aler. Chalmers.
21 vols. 1810.
B. Biography and Criticism
Beljame, A. Le public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre au 18me siècle,
1660-1744. Paris, 1881.
Cibber, Theophilus. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland.
5 vols. 1753.
Courthope, W. J. A history of English Poetry. Vol. v. 1905.
Elton, 0. The Augustan Ages. Edinburgh, 1899.
Gosse, E. A history of eighteenth century literature. 1889.
Hettner, H. J. T. Literaturgeschichte d. 18. Jahrhunderts. 3rd edn. VoL L.
Gesch. der englischen Literatur, 1660-70. Brunswick, 1872.
Johnson, S. The Lives of the English Poets. Ed. Hill, G. Birkbeck. 3 vols.
Oxford, 1905.
Pope, Alexander. Works. Edd. Elwin, W. and Courthope, W. J. 10 vols.
1871-89.
Rémusat, C. F. M. de. L'Angleterre an 18me siècle. New edn. 2 vols. Paris,
1865.
Saintsbury, G. A history of Criticism. Vol. 11. Edinburgh, 1902.
A history of English Prosody. Vol. 11. 1908.
Spence, Joseph. Anecdotes, observations, and characters of books and men.
Ed. Singer, S. W. 2nd edn. 1858.
Ward, T. H. The English Poets. Selections with critical introductions by
various authors, and a general introduction by Arnold, Matthew. 2nd
odn. Vol. III. 1884.
II. PARTICULAR WRITERS
Section (i)
JOHN GAY
(1) Collected editions
Poems. 1720, 1727, 1752.
Works. 4 vols. Dublin, 1770.
Poetical, dramatic, and miscellaneous works, with Johnson's life. 6 vols
1793.
Poetical works. Ed. Underhill, J. (The Muses Library. ) 2 vols. 1893.
(2) Poems published separately
Wine, a poem. 1708.
Rural Sports, a Georgic inscribed to Mr Pope. 1713.
Translated in part into Italian verse by Ercolani, C. 1886.
The Fan, a poem in three books. 1713.
The Shepherd's Week. In six pastorals. 1714.
A Letter to a lady, occasioned by the arrival of Her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales. 1714.
A Journey to Exeter. 1715.
Trivia, or the art of walking the streets of London. 1716.
An Epistle to the Duchess of Marlborough. 1722.
Fables. 1727, 4th edn 1733, 1736.
2nd series. 1738.
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Chapter VI
481
Fables complete. 1750,1762, 1779 (with Bewick's cuts), 1793, 1796 (with life by
Coxe, W. ), 1816, 1854 (with memoir by Owen, O. F. ), 1882 (ed. Dobson, A. ,
with a bibliography). Trans. into French, 1759, 1811, 1857, etc. ; into
Italian, 1767, 1773; into Latin, by Anstey, C. , 1798.
Gay’s Chair. Poems, never before printed, by J. Gay; with a sketch of his
life from the manuscripts of Butler, J. Ed. Lee, H. 1820.
(3) Plays published separately
The Mohocks. A tragi-comical farce. 1712.
The Wife of Bath. A comedy. 1713. Republished, 1730.
The What d’ye call it. A tragi-comi-pastoral farce. 1715, 3rd edn 1716.
(Contains 'Twas when the seas were roaring. )
Three Hours after Marriage. A comedy. (By Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot. )
1717.
The Captives. A tragedy. 1724.
The Beggar's Opera. 1728, 4th edn 1735, 7th edn 1754. Ed. Macleod,
G. H. 1905.
Polly. An opera. Being the second part of The Beggar's Opera. 1729.
These two ed. , with introd, and notes, by Sarrazin, G. , Weimar, 1898.
Acis and Galatea. An English pastoral opera. 1732.
Achilles. An opera. 1733.
The Distressed Wife. A comedy. 1743, 2nd edn 1750.
The Rehearsal at Goatham. 1754.
(4) Biography and Criticism
See, also, subsections (1) and (2), ante.
ta's Coxe, W. Life of Gay. 2nd edn.
B Bruce, J. D. Some unpublished translations from Ariosto, by John Gay.
Rptd from Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen etc. Vol.
CXXIII. Brunswick, 1910.
Hazlitt, W. On Swift, Young, Gray, Collins, etc. Lectures on the English
Poets, Works, edd. Waller, A. R. and Glover, A. Vol. v. 1902.
