Rptd and
illustrated
by
Foster, B.
Foster, B.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
(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
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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. 1783. 2 vols. 1786.
Evidences of the Christian religion. Edinburgh, 1786.
Elements of moral science. 2 vols. 1790-3. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1807.
2 vols. 1817.
(3) Biography and Criticism
Bower, A. An Account of the Life of James Beattie. 1804.
Forbes, M. Beattie and his friends. 1904.
Forbes, Sir W. An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie,
including many of his original Letters. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1806. 3 vols.
1807. 2 vols. 1824.
Robert Blair
See, also, Beattie, J. , ante.
The Grave. A poem. 1743.
Illustrated by twelve etchings executed by Schiavonetti, L. , from the
original inventions of William Blake. 1808. 1813.
Ed. Farrar, F. W. Illustrated. 1858.
Susanna Blamire (1747-1794)
Poetical Works, now for the first time collected by Lonsdale, H. With a
preface, memoir, and notes by Maxwell, P. Edinburgh, 1842.
Samuel Boyce (d. 1775)
Poems. 1757.
John Collier (Tim Bobbin') (1708-1786)
View of the Lancashire dialect (by way of Dialogue between Tummus and
Meary, etc. ). 1746. Frequently rptd, sometimes in edns including Collier's
miscellaneous poems under the title of Works of Tim Bobbin.
## p. 454 (#480) ############################################
454
Bibliography
William Collins
Poetical Works. With Memoirs of the author, and observations on his
genius and writings by Langhorne, J. 1765. 1771. 1781. With Johnson's
Life added. 1804. 1811.
Poetical Works. Ed. Mrs Barbauld. 1797.
Poetical Works. To which is prefixed a Life of the Author by Johnson.
1798, 1800. With Johnson's Life, corrected and enlarged by Crowe, W.
Bath, 1828.
Poetical Works. With the Life of the Author by Johnson; observations
on his writings by Langhorne; and biographical and critical notes by
Dyce, A. 1827.
Poetical Works, with a Memoir of the author and an essay on his genius and
poems by Brydges, Sir E. (Aldine Poets. ) 1830. 1853.
Poems, with Memoir by Thomas, Moy. 1858. 1866. 1894.
Poems. Ed. Stone, C. 1907.
Persian eclogues and odes. 1742. Rptd 1757 as Oriental eclogaes.
Verses to Sir Thomas Hanmer on his edition of Shakespeare's Works. 1743.
Odes on several descriptive and allegoric subjects. 1747.
An Ode occasioned by the death of Mr Thomson. 1749.
An Ode on the popular superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland considered
as the subject of poetry. 1788. [Published posthumously. The work
also appeared in the Trans. of the Royal Soc. of Edinburgh. ]
Sneyd Davies (1709-1769)
Davies's Poems were never collected. They are to be found in Dodsley's
Collection (1775), vols. V and vi; and in Nichols's Collection (1780), vols. Vi
and VII.
John Dyer
Poems. 1761. 1765.
Grongar Hill. First published in the Miscellaneous Poems and Translations
by several hands of Savage, R. 1726. Rptd separately, 1727.
The Ruins of Rome. A poem. 1740.
The Fleece. A poem in four books. 1757.
William Falconer
Poetical Works. Ed. Mitford, J. (Aldine Poets. ) 1836 and 1866.
The Shipwreck. A poem in three cantos, by a Sailor. 1762. 2nd edn, 1764 ;
3rd edn, 1769; 11th edn, 1802.
Ed. with a Life by Clarke, J. S. 1804.
With Life by Carruthers, R. , and illustrations by Foster, B. 1858.
Friedrich, J. The Shipwreck. A poem by a Sailor. 1762. (Schipper's
Wiener Beiträge. ) Vienna and Leipzig, 1901.
The Demagogue. 1764.
An universal Dictionary of the Marine. 1769, and several later edns, ed.
Burney, W.
Francis Fawkes (1720-1777)
The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus, translated
into English by a Gentleman of Cambridge. 1760.
Original Poems and Translations. 1761.
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455
Philip Francis (1708 ? –1773)
The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace in Latin and English.
2 vols. 1743.
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace in Latin and English.
2 vols. 1746.
Eugenia. A tragedy. 1752.
Constantine. A tragedy. 1754.
Richard Glover
Leonidas. A poem. 1737. 5th edn. 1770. Transl. into French and German.
London, or the Progress of Commerce. A poem. 1739.
Admiral Hosier's Ghost. 1740.
Boadicea. A tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane.
1753.
Medea. A tragedy. 1761.
The Athenaid. A poem. 1787. [Published posthumously. ]
As to this, see Retrospective Review, vol. 11, 1820.
Jason. A tragedy. 1799.
Memoirs by a celebrated literary and political character, from the resignation
of Sir Robert Walpole in 1742 to the establishment of Lord Chatham's
second administration. Written by himself. 1813. [Published by
Duppa, R. ]
An Inquiry concerning the author of the Letters of Junius, with
reference to the Memoirs of a celebrated literary and political
character. [By Duppa, R.
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.
## p. 453 (#479) ############################################
Chapter VII
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. 1783. 2 vols. 1786.
Evidences of the Christian religion. Edinburgh, 1786.
Elements of moral science. 2 vols. 1790-3. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1807.
2 vols. 1817.
(3) Biography and Criticism
Bower, A. An Account of the Life of James Beattie. 1804.
Forbes, M. Beattie and his friends. 1904.
Forbes, Sir W. An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie,
including many of his original Letters. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1806. 3 vols.
1807. 2 vols. 1824.
Robert Blair
See, also, Beattie, J. , ante.
The Grave. A poem. 1743.
Illustrated by twelve etchings executed by Schiavonetti, L. , from the
original inventions of William Blake. 1808. 1813.
Ed. Farrar, F. W. Illustrated. 1858.
Susanna Blamire (1747-1794)
Poetical Works, now for the first time collected by Lonsdale, H. With a
preface, memoir, and notes by Maxwell, P. Edinburgh, 1842.
Samuel Boyce (d. 1775)
Poems. 1757.
John Collier (Tim Bobbin') (1708-1786)
View of the Lancashire dialect (by way of Dialogue between Tummus and
Meary, etc. ). 1746. Frequently rptd, sometimes in edns including Collier's
miscellaneous poems under the title of Works of Tim Bobbin.
## p. 454 (#480) ############################################
454
Bibliography
William Collins
Poetical Works. With Memoirs of the author, and observations on his
genius and writings by Langhorne, J. 1765. 1771. 1781. With Johnson's
Life added. 1804. 1811.
Poetical Works. Ed. Mrs Barbauld. 1797.
Poetical Works. To which is prefixed a Life of the Author by Johnson.
1798, 1800. With Johnson's Life, corrected and enlarged by Crowe, W.
Bath, 1828.
Poetical Works. With the Life of the Author by Johnson; observations
on his writings by Langhorne; and biographical and critical notes by
Dyce, A. 1827.
Poetical Works, with a Memoir of the author and an essay on his genius and
poems by Brydges, Sir E. (Aldine Poets. ) 1830. 1853.
Poems, with Memoir by Thomas, Moy. 1858. 1866. 1894.
Poems. Ed. Stone, C. 1907.
Persian eclogues and odes. 1742. Rptd 1757 as Oriental eclogaes.
Verses to Sir Thomas Hanmer on his edition of Shakespeare's Works. 1743.
Odes on several descriptive and allegoric subjects. 1747.
An Ode occasioned by the death of Mr Thomson. 1749.
An Ode on the popular superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland considered
as the subject of poetry. 1788. [Published posthumously. The work
also appeared in the Trans. of the Royal Soc. of Edinburgh. ]
Sneyd Davies (1709-1769)
Davies's Poems were never collected. They are to be found in Dodsley's
Collection (1775), vols. V and vi; and in Nichols's Collection (1780), vols. Vi
and VII.
John Dyer
Poems. 1761. 1765.
Grongar Hill. First published in the Miscellaneous Poems and Translations
by several hands of Savage, R. 1726. Rptd separately, 1727.
The Ruins of Rome. A poem. 1740.
The Fleece. A poem in four books. 1757.
William Falconer
Poetical Works. Ed. Mitford, J. (Aldine Poets. ) 1836 and 1866.
The Shipwreck. A poem in three cantos, by a Sailor. 1762. 2nd edn, 1764 ;
3rd edn, 1769; 11th edn, 1802.
Ed. with a Life by Clarke, J. S. 1804.
With Life by Carruthers, R. , and illustrations by Foster, B. 1858.
Friedrich, J. The Shipwreck. A poem by a Sailor. 1762. (Schipper's
Wiener Beiträge. ) Vienna and Leipzig, 1901.
The Demagogue. 1764.
An universal Dictionary of the Marine. 1769, and several later edns, ed.
Burney, W.
Francis Fawkes (1720-1777)
The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus, translated
into English by a Gentleman of Cambridge. 1760.
Original Poems and Translations. 1761.
## p. 455 (#481) ############################################
Chapter VII
455
Philip Francis (1708 ? –1773)
The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace in Latin and English.
2 vols. 1743.
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace in Latin and English.
2 vols. 1746.
Eugenia. A tragedy. 1752.
Constantine. A tragedy. 1754.
Richard Glover
Leonidas. A poem. 1737. 5th edn. 1770. Transl. into French and German.
London, or the Progress of Commerce. A poem. 1739.
Admiral Hosier's Ghost. 1740.
Boadicea. A tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane.
1753.
Medea. A tragedy. 1761.
The Athenaid. A poem. 1787. [Published posthumously. ]
As to this, see Retrospective Review, vol. 11, 1820.
Jason. A tragedy. 1799.
Memoirs by a celebrated literary and political character, from the resignation
of Sir Robert Walpole in 1742 to the establishment of Lord Chatham's
second administration. Written by himself. 1813. [Published by
Duppa, R. ]
An Inquiry concerning the author of the Letters of Junius, with
reference to the Memoirs of a celebrated literary and political
character. [By Duppa, R.
