The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical / by Robert Anderson ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Mendenhall, John C. (donor) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Physical Description:

13 volumes ; 24 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Complete edition of the poets of Great Britain.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for John & Arthur Arch ... and for Bell & Bradfute and J. Mundell & Co. Edinburgh, 1795.

Contents:

v.1. Chaucer, Surrey, Wyat, Sackville.

v.2. Spenser, Shakspeare, Davies, and Hall.

v.3. Drayton, Carew, and Suckling.

v.4. Donne, Daniel, Browne, Fletcher, P., Fletcher, G., Jonson, Drummond, Crashaw, and Davenant.

v.5. Milton, Cowley, Waller, Butler, and Denham.

v.6. Dryden, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Stepney, Philips, J., Walsh, Smith, Duke, King, Sprat, and Halifax.

v.7. Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Addison, Hughes, Sheffield, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Granville, and Yalden.

v.8. Pope, Gay, Tickell, Somervile, Pattison, Hammond, Savage, Hill, Broome, Pitt, and Blair.

v.9. Swift, Thomson, Watts, Hamilton, Philips, A., West, G., Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Mallet, Akenside, and Harte.

v.10. Young, Gray, West, R., Lyttleton, Moore, Boyse, Thompson, Cawthorn, Churchill, Falconer, Lloyd, Cunningham Green, Cooper, Goldsmith, Whitehead, P., Brown, Grainger, Smollett, and Armstrong.

v.11. Wilkie, Dodsley, Smart, Langhorne, Bruce, Chatterton, Graeme, Glover, Shaw, Lovibond, Penrose, Mickle, Jago, Scott, Johnson, Whitehead, W., Jenyns, Logan, Warton, Cotton, and Blacklock.

v.12. Pope's Iliad, Pope's Odyssey, West's Pindar, Dryden's Virgil, Dryden's Persius, Dryden's Juvenal, Pitt's neid, Rowe's Lucan, Homer's Hymn to Ceres, and Pindar's Odes, ommited by West.

v.13. Cooke's Hesiod, Fawkes's Theocritus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, Fawkes's Musaeus, Apollonius Rhodius, Mr. C

-'s Coluthus Lycopolites, Creech's Lucretius, and Grainger's Tibullus.

Notes:

Each volume with added engraved title page reading: A complete edition of the poets of Great Britain.

The works of the individual poets, v. 1-11, each have special title page dated 1792-1795, with imprint: Edinburgh : Printed by Mundell and son.

Many incorrectly signed leaves and numerous errors in paging.

Printed in double columns.

OCLC:

123111352