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This set offers a representitive collection of the verse satire of the Romantic period, published between the mid-1780s and the mid-1830s. As well as two single-author volumes, from William Gifford and Thomas Moore, there is also a wealth of rare, unedited material.
List of Short Titles -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction by John Strachan -- A Note on the Text -- Biographical Directory -- THE SATIRES OF WILLIAM GIFFORD -- The Baviad; A Paraphrastic Imitation of the First Satire of Persius (1791) -- The Maeviad (1795) -- 'Imitation. Dactylics. Quintessence of all the Dactylics that ever were, or ever will be written' (1797) -- 'Imitation of Bion. Written at St Ann's Hill' (1798) -- 'Epistle to Peter Pindar' (1800) -- SATIRES ON WILLIAM GIFFORD -- 'Horace Juvenal' (Mary Robinson), Modern Manners: A Poem. In Two Cantos (1793) -- 'Peter Pindar' (John Wolcot), Out at Last (1801) -- Edward Jerningham, 'Lines on The Baviad and The Pursuits of Literature' (1797; 1806) -- Leigh Hunt, Ultra-Crepidarius: A Satire on William Gifford (1823) -- 'THE HEROES AND HEROINES OF THE BAVIAD': AN ANTHOLOGY OF DELLA CRUSCAN VERSE -- William Parsons and Hester Thrale Piozzi, 'Dedication' and 'Preface' to The Florence Miscellany (1785) -- Robert Merry, 'Madness' (1785) -- Hester Thrale Piozzi, 'To Wm. Parsons Esq.' (1785) -- William Parsons, 'To Mrs Piozzi, in Reply, Written on the Anniversary of her Wedding 25 July 1785' (1785) -- 'Benedict' (Edward Jerningham), 'To May' (1787) -- 'Benedict' (Edward Jerningham), 'To Melissa's Lips' (1787) -- 'Belinda' (Anon.), 'Address to Benedict' (1787) -- 'Della Crusca' (Robert Merry), 'The Adieu and Recall to Love' (1787) -- 'Anna Matilda' (Hannah Cowley), 'To Della Crusca: The Pen' (1787) -- 'Della Crusca' (Robert Merry), 'To Anna Matilda' (1787) -- 'Anna Matilda' (Hannah Cowley), 'To Della Crusca' (1787) -- 'Della Crusca' (Robert Merry), 'To Anna Matilda' (1787) -- 'Della Crusca' (Robert Merry), 'Elegy, Written on the Plain of Fontenoy' (1787) -- 'Anna Matilda' (Hannah Cowley), 'Stanzas to Della Crusca' (1787) -- 'Della Crusca' (Robert Merry), 'To Anna Matilda' (1787) -- 'Anna Matilda' (Hannah Cowley), 'To Della Crusca' (1787) -- 'Rueben' (attrib. Bertie Greatheed), 'To Anna Matilda' (1788) -- Hester Thrale Piozzi, 'Sonnet. On an Air Balloon' (1788) -- 'Della Crusca' (Robert Merry), 'The Slaves. An Elegy' (1788) -- 'The Bard' (Edward Jerningham), 'The African Boy' (1788) -- 'Della Crusca' (Robert Merry), 'The Interview' (1789) -- 'Laura' (Mary Robinson), 'To Leonardo' (1789) -- 'Philander' (Anon.), 'To Her Whom I Saw Weep' (1789) -- 'Laura Maria' (Mary Robinson), 'To the Nightingale' (1789) -- Robert Merry, The Laurel of Liberty: A Poem (1790) -- Mary Robinson, Ainsi va le Monde (1790) -- 'Ignotus' (William Kendall), 'To Laura' (1790) -- 'Cesario' (Miss Vaughan), 'The Voice we Love' (1790) -- 'Arley' (Miles Andrews), 'The Invitation. To Delia' (1790) -- 'Emma' (Anon.), 'Henry Deceived' (1790) -- 'Henry' (Anon.), 'To Emma' (1790) -- 'Courtney Melmoth' (Samuel Jackson Pratt), from The New Cosmetic, or the Triumph of Beauty, A Comedy (1791) -- Miles Andrews, 'Epilogue, Written by Miles Peter Andrews, Esq. and spoken by Mrs Mattocks' (1791) -- Robert Merry, Ode for the fourteenth of July, 1791, the day consecrated to freedom: being the anniversary of the revolution in France (1791) -- Mary Robinson, 'Ode To Della Crusca' (1791) -- 'Rinaldo' (Robert Merry), 'Rinaldo to Laura Maria' (1791) -- Mary Robinson, 'To the Muse of Poetry' (1791) -- Mary Robinson, 'Echo to Him Who Complains' (1791) -- Edward Topham, 'Epilogue' to The Rage (1795) -- Miles Andrews, 'Epilogue' (1797) -- APPENDICES -- 1. Anon., 'Proceedings of the Trial of Robert Faulder, Bookseller, (one of FORTY against whom Actions were brought for selling the Baviad), for publishing a Libel on John Williams, alias Anthony Pasquin, Esq.' (1800) -- 2. William Hazlitt, A Letter to William Gifford, Esq. From William Hazlitt, Esq. (1819) -- Explanatory Notes.
