The Restoration and Eighteenth Century

613 Pages·1989·49.165 MB·English

by  Ian McGowan (eds.)

MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGIES
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
General Editors:
A. Norman Jeffares, formerly Professor of English,
University of Stirling
Michael Alexander, Berry Professor of English Literature,
University of St Andrews
MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGIES
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Volume 1 THE MIDDLE AGES (700-1550)
Michael Alexander and Felicity Riddy
Volume 2 THE RENAISSANCE (1550-1660)
Gordon Campbell
Volume 3 THE RESTORATION AND
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1660-1798)
Ian McGowan
Volume 4 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1798-1900)
Brian Martin
Volume 5 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1900-present)
Neil McEwan
MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGIES
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
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RESTORATION AND
EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY
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Macmillan anthologies of English literature
Vol. 3: The Restoration and eighteenth century
1. English literature--Anthologies
I. McGowan, Ian
820.8
ISBN 978-0-333-46478-6 ISBN 978-1-349-20143-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20143-3
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Contents
Acknowledgements xu
General Introduction xm
Introduction: The Restoration and
Eighteenth Century xv
Note on Annotation and Glossing xxvm
Note on Dates xxvm
SAMUEL BUTLER 1
From Hudibras
[The Character of the Hero] 1
JOHN AUBREY 8
From Brief Lives
William Shakespeare 8
JOHN BUNYAN 10
From The Pilgrim,s Progress
[Christian in Vanity Fair] 10
JOHN DRYDEN 18
Absalom and Achitophel 19
Mac Flecknoe 45
To the Memory of Mr Oldham 51
A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687 52
Lines on Milton 54
To My Honoured Kinsman john Driden 55
From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
[Shakespeare and Ben Jonson
Compared] 60
From Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy
[Shakespeare's Language] 62
From Preface to Ovid,s Epistles
[Translation] 63
From Discourse concerning Satire 64
From Preface to Fables Ancient and
Modern
[Chaucer] 65
SAMUEL PEPYS 67
From Diary
[The Great Fire of London] 67
vi CONTENTS
THOMAS SPRAT 72
From The History of the Royal Society
[The Prose Style Sought by the Royal
Society) 72
[Prospects of Scientific Discovery] 72
JOHN WILMOT,
EARL OF ROCHESTER 76
Satire, Were I (who to my cost already
am) 76
WILLIAM DAMPIER 83
From A New Voyage Round the World
[Australian Natives] 83
DANIEL DEFOE 85
From Robinson Crusoe
[Shipwreck] 85
[Spiritual Awakening] 89
From Moll Flanders
[Temptation] 93
JONATHAN SWIFT 98
From A Tale of a Tub
[History of Christianity] 99
A Description of the Morning 108
A Description of a City Shower 108
From Gulliver's Travels
[Gulliver arrives in Lilliput] 110
[Gulliver in Brobdingnag] 116
[Gulliver praises England to the King] 119
[The Immortals of Luggnagg] 122
[Houyhnhnms and Yahoos] 128
[Return to Civilisation?) 132
[Gulliver's Doubts] 136
A Modest Proposal 137
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to
Bed 145
From Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 147
WILLIAM CONGREVE 156
From The Way of the World
[Marriage Conditions] 156
COLLEY GIBBER 166
From An Apology for the Life of Colley
Gibber
CONTENTS Vll
[A Cheerful Dunce?] 166
[The Status of Actors] 168
SIR RICHARD STEELE 171
The Spectator, No. 2
[The Club] 172
JOSEPH ADDISON 171
The Spectator, No 70
[The Ballad] 176
The Spectator, No 74
[The Ballad, continued] 181
JOHN GAY 187
From The Beggar's Opera
Act I 187
ALEXANDER POPE 205
From An Essay on Criticism
[Poetic Technique] 206
From Windsor Forest
[Order in Variety] 207
[Man's Victims] 208
The Rape of the Lock 209
Epistle to Miss Blount 230
From Eloisa to Abelard 232
Epistle II. To a Lady: Of the Characters
of Women 236
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 244
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU 256
From Letters
[Turkish Women] 256
[Inoculation against Smallpox] 259
[Female Society in Turkey] 260
[Female Education] 265
SAMUEL RICHARDSON 269
From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
[An Attack] 269
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE,
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD 279
From Letters to his Natural Son
[Polite Behaviour] 279
[How to Please People] 281
[Social Accomplishments] 284
Vlll CONTENTS
JAMES THOMSON 287
The Seasons
From Summer 287
From Winter 290
From The Castle of Indolence
[The Land of Drowsyhed] 293
HENRY FIELDING 295
From Shame/a
[True Confessions] 295
From Joseph Andrews
[Good Neighbours] 298
From Tom Jones
[Caught in the Act) 304
SAMUEL JOHNSON 310
The Vanity of Human Wishes 311
The Rambler, No 4
[Morality in Fiction] 321
From Preface to A Dictionary of the
English Language 325
From Rasselas
A Dissertation on the Art of Flying 329
A Dissertation upon Poetry 332
From Preface to Edition of Shakespeare 334
From General Note on King Lear 343
From A Journey to the Western Islands
[Highland Scenery] 344
From Letters
To Earl of Chesterfield 346
To James Macpherson 347
To Revd William Dodd 347
From Prayers and Meditations
September 176 4 348
Easter 1777 348
From The Lives of the Poets
[The Metaphysical Poets] 349
[Milton's Politics] 352
[Lycidas] 352
[Paradise Lost] 353
[Pope and Dryden Compared] 360
[Gray's Poetry] 364
CONTENTS IX
To Sir John Lade, on his Coming of
Age 367
On the Death of Dr Robert Levet 368
LAURENCE STERNE 370
From Tristram Shandy
[Begetting] 370
[Time and Distance] 374
[Hobby-Horse] 375
From A Sentimental Journey through
France and Italy
Paris 379
THOMAS GRAY 384
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton
College 384
Sonnet on the Death of Mr Richard
West 387
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat 388
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 389
The Bard. A Pindaric Ode 394
From Journal in the Lake District, 1769 398
HORACE WALPOLE,
EARL OF ORFORD 401
From Letters
[Pomp and Piety] 401
[Wild Nature] 403
[Burial of King George II] 404
TOBIAS SMOLLETI 407
From The Expedition of Humphry
Clinker
[The Pleasures of Bath and London] 407
[A Domestic Epistle] 413
CHRISTOPHER SMART 415
From Jubilate Agno
[My CatJeoffry] 415
From A Song to David
[God's Creation] 418
[Adoration] 420
ADAM SMITH 428
From The Wealth of Nations
[The Division of Labour] 428