Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, vol 1

John Goodridge, Simon Kövesi, David Fairer, Tim Burke, William Christmas, Bridget Keegan

• Contents of Volume I -- Acknowledgements -- General Editor’s introduction -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Note on the Text -- EDWARD WARD (1667—1731) -- From A Journej to He/k or, a Visit paid to the Devil. A Poem (1700) -- The Preface -- Part I. Canto I [The Poet Visits Hades] -- Part I. Canto VI [The Physicians in Hades] -- Part 11. Canto VI [The Poets in Hades] -- Part IL Canto VII [The Printers and the Booksellers in -- Hades] -- From A Collection of Historical and State Poems, Sayrs, Songs, and Epigrams (1717) -- The Character of a certain rattling Whig -- The Tobacco Sot. An Epigram -- Truth without Dissembling: or, A Merry Ballad on the Times -- From The Delights of the Bottle: or, The Comp leaf Vintner (1720) -- Canto II: The Compleat Vintner -- Canto III: The Description of a Tavern -- JANE HOLT (ft 1682?-1717) -- A Fairj Tale Insøib’d, to the Honourable Mn. W___With other Poems (1717) -- [A Fairy Tale] Sent with a pair of China Basons -- To the Ilonourable Mrs. Egcrton on her Marriage, February the 16th, 1717 -- To Colin from a Masquerade -- In the Habit of a Gipsy to the Right Honourable the LadyD— -- To a Lady from the Country in 1709 -- On a Bird -- To the Honourable Mrs. Skipwith from the Isle of Ely -- A Letter to a Lady -- To Mr. Wren my Valentine Six Year Old -- HENRY NELSON (fl. 1725-29) -- A Poem, In the Honour of the Antient and Loyal Socitey of the Journy-Men-Taylors, who are to Dine at the King’s-Inns, on Monday the 25th Inst, Juy, 1726 -- Poem on the Procession of Journeymen Taylors, July the 28th, 1729 -- EDWARD CHICKEN (1698-1747) -- The Collier’s Wedding. A Poem [c1729] -- ROBERT DODSLEY (1703-1764) -- Servitude [1729] -- The Preface -- Servitude -- From A Muse in Livery: or, the Footman’s Miscellany (1732) -- [Dedication] -- Effigies Authoris: or, the Mind of the Frontispiece -- Ode -- An Epistle to Stephen Duck -- The Wish -- The Footman. An Epistle to my Friend Mr. Wright -- The Petition -- An Epistle to my Friend J. B. -- Religion. A S