Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface.
Introduction: Duncan Wu.


1. John Milton (1608-1674):.


Paradise Lost.


Book I.


Book Ii.


2. John Dryden (1631-1700): Absalom And
Achitophel:.


A Poem To The Memory Of Mr Oldham.


A Song For St Cecilia?s Day.


3. John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester
(1647-1680):.


The Imperfect Enjoyment.


A Satyr Against Reason And Mankind.


The Disabled Debauchee.


Lampoon [On The Women About Town].


Signior Dildo.


A Satyr On Charles Ii.


A Letter From Artemiza In The Town To Chloe In The
Country.


A Ramble In Saint James?s Park.


Song (?Fair Cloris In A Pigsty Lay?).


A Song (?Absent From Thee I Languish Still?).


4. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745):.


A Description Of The Morning.


A Description Of A City Shower.


Strephon And Chloe.


The Lady?s Dressing Room.


A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed.


Cassinus And Peter. A Tragical Elegy.


Verses On The Death Of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D.


5. Alexander Pope (1688-1744):.


Epistle To Miss Blount, With The Works Of Voiture.


The Rape Of The Lock.


Eloisa To Abelard.


Elegy To The Memory Of An Unfortunate Lady.


6. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784):.


The Vanity Of Human Wishes.


7. Thomas Gray (1716-1771):.


Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College.


Sonnet [On The Death Of Mr Richard West].


Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat.


Elegy Written In A Country Church-Yard.


8.William Collins (1721-1759):.


Ode To Fear.


Ode To Evening.


9. Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774):.


The Deserted Village, A Poem.


Index Of Titles And First Lines.

About the Author

Robert DeMaria Jr. is Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of
English at Vassar College.

Duncan Wu is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford,
and University Lecturer in English Literature.