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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.
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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.
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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.
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THOMAS PARNELL
Poems on severall occasions. (Ed. by Alexander Pope. ) 1722, 1726. 6th edn.
Dublin, 1735. With a life by Oliver Goldsmith. 1770.
Posthumous Works. 1758.
Poetical works. Ed. Mitford, J. (Aldine edn. ) 1833.
Poetical works. Ed. Aitken, G. A. 1894.
Essay on the different styles of Poetry. 1713.
On the life, writings, and learning of Homer. Prefixed to Popo's translation
of the Iliad. 1715.
Homer's Battle of the Frogs and the Mice [translated). With the Remarks
of Zoilus. To which is prefix'd the Life of the said Zoilus. 1717.
par le
AMBROSE PHILIPS
Pastorals, epistles, odes and other poems. 1748, 1765.
The Distrest Mother. A tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury
Lane, by Her Majesty's Servants. 1712.
The Briton. A tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane by
His Majesty's Servants. 1722.
Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester. A Tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre
Royal in Drury Lane, by His Majesty's servants. 1723.
These three plays collected. 1725.
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JOHN POMFRET
Poems on several occasions. 1699, 2nd edn 1702, 10th edn 1736.
The Choice. 1700.
A Prospect of Death, an ode. (1700. ]
Reason, a poem. 1700.
MATTHEW PRIOR
(1) Collected Works
Miscellaneous Works. -Ed. Drift, A, 2 vols. 1740.
The Writings of Matthew Prior. (Poems on Several Occasions. —Dialogues
of the Dead, and other works in prose and verse. ) Ed. Waller, A. R.
2 vols. Cambridge, 1905–7.
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(2) Collected Poems
Miscellany Poems. Ed. Dryden, John. 6 parts. 1684-1709 (and later edns).
Poems on Affairs of State. . . . Written by the greatest wits. 1697. As to
Prior's contributions to these two collections, of. Waller's edn, ante.
Poems on Several Occasions. 1707 (unauthorised edn), 1709 (first authorised
edn), 1713, 1717.
A Second Collection of Poems on Several Occasions. 1716 (unauthorised).
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German, 1783. Solomon on the Vanity of the World was trans. into Latin
by Dobson, W. , Oxford, 1734-6; and Alma by Martin, T. , Salisbury, 1763.
A New Miscellany of Original Poems, by Mr Prior, Mr Pope, etc. 1720.
A Supplement to Mr Prior's Poems. 1722.
A New Collection of Poems on Several Occasions. 1725.
Poetical Works. With explanatory notes and memoirs of the author. Ed.
Evans, T. 2 vols. 1779.
With a memoir by Mitford, J. (Aldine poets. ) 2 vols. 1835, 1866.
New edn revised, with a memoir by Johnson, R. B. 2 vols. 1892.
With a memoir by Gilfillan, G. Edinburgh, 1858.
Selected Poems. With introduction and notes by Dobson, A. 1889.
(3) Separately published works
The Hind and the Panther transvers’d to the story of the Country-Mouse and
the City-Mouse. 1687, 1709. (By Prior and Charles Montague. )
An Ode in imitation of the Second Ode of the Third Book of Horace, 1692.
An English Ballad: In answer to Mr Despreaux's Pindarique Ode on the
Taking of Namure. 1695.
To the King. An Ode on His Majesty's arrival in Holland. 1695.
Carmen Saeculare for the year 1700. To the King. 1700. Latin trans, by
Dibben, T. 1701.
A Letter to Monsieur Boileau Depreaux (sic). 1704.
Prologue spoken at Court before the Queen, on Her Majesty's birth-day, 1704.
1704.
An Ode, humbly inscrib'd to the Queen. On the glorious success of Her
Majesty's arms. 1706.
Pallas and Venus. 1706.
Horace, Lib. I, Epist. ix imitated. To the Right Honourable Mr Harley.
(1711. ]
Two Imitations of Chaucer. I, Susannah and the Two Elders. II. Erle
Robert's Mice. 1712.
The Dove, a poem. 1717.
The Female Phaeton. [1718? ]
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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.