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INTRODUCTION xiii
WILLIAM LANGLAND
I. Pilgrimage in Search of Do-well 1
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
II. III. The Monk and the Friar 6
JOHN LYDGATE
IV. The London Lackpenny 10
WILLIAM DUNBAR
V. The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins 14
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY
VI. Satire on the Syde Taillis--Ane Supplicatioun
directit to the Kingis Grace--1538 19
BISHOP JOSEPH HALL
VII. On Simony 22
VIII. The Domestic Tutor's Position 23
IX. The Impecunious Fop 24
GEORGE CHAPMAN
X. An Invective written by Mr. George Chapman
against Mr. Ben Jonson 26
JOHN DONNE
XI. The Character of the Bore 29
BEN JONSON
XII. The New Cry 34
XIII. On Don Surly 35
SAMUEL BUTLER
XIV. The Character of Hudibras 36
XV. The Character of a Small Poet 43
ANDREW MARVELL
XVI. Nostradamus's Prophecy 45
JOHN CLEIVELAND
XVII. The Scots Apostasie 47
JOHN DRYDEN
XVIII. Satire on the Dutch 49
XIX. MacFlecknoe 50
XX. Epistle to the Whigs 57
DANIEL DEFOE
XXI. Introduction to the True born Englishman 63
THE EARL OF DORSET
XXII. Satire on a Conceited Playwright 65
JOHN ARBUTHNOT
XXIII. Preface to John Bull and his Law suit 66
XXIV. The History of John Bull 70
XXV. Epitaph upon Colonel Chartres 76
JONATHAN SWIFT
XXVI. Mrs Frances Harris' Petition 77
XXVII. Elegy on Partridge 81
XXVIII. A Meditation upon a Broom stick 85
XXIX. The Relations of Booksellers and Authors 86
XXX. The Epistle Dedicatory to His Royal Highness
Prince Posterity 91
SIR RICHARD STEELE
XXXI. The Commonwealth of Lunatics 97
JOSEPH ADDISON
XXXII. Sir Roger de Coverley's Sunday 101
EDWARD YOUNG
XXXIII. To the Right Hon. Mr. Dodington 105
JOHN GAY
XXXIV. The Quidnunckis 112
ALEXANDER POPE
XXXV. The Dunciad--The Description of Dulness 114
XXXVI. Sandys' Ghost; or, a proper new ballad of
the New Ovid's Metamorphoses, as it was
intended to be translated by persons of
quality 120
XXXVII. Satire on the Whig Poets 122
XXXVIII. Epilogue to the Satires 131
SAMUEL JOHNSON
XXXIX. The Vanity of Human Wishes 136
XL. Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield 147
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
XLI. The Retaliation 149
XLII. The Logicians Refuted 154
XLIII. Beau Tibbs, his Character and Family 156
CHARLES CHURCHILL
XLIV. The Journey 160
JUNIUS
XLV. To the King 164
ROBERT BURNS
XLVI. Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly
Righteous 180
XLVII. Holy Willie's Prayer 182
CHARLES LAMB
XLVIII. A Farewell to Tobacco 186
THOMAS MOORE
XLIX. Lines on Leigh Hunt 191
GEORGE CANNING
L. Epistle from Lord Boringdon to Lord Granville 192
LI. Reformation of the Knave of Hearts 194
POETRY OF THE ANTI JACOBIN
LII. The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-grinder 203
LIII. Song by Rogero the Captive 205
COLERIDGE AND SOUTHEY
LIV. The Devil's Walk 206
SYDNEY SMITH
LV. The Letters of Peter Plymley--on "No
Popery" 208
JAMES SMITH
LVI. The Poet of Fashion 216
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
LVII. Bossuet and the Duchess of Fontanges 218
LORD BYRON
LVIII. The Vision of Judgment 226
LIX. The Waltz 236
LX. "The Dedication" in Don Juan 243
THOMAS HOOD
LXI. Cockle _v._ Cackle 249
LORD MACAULAY
LXII. The Country Clergyman's Trip to Cambridge 253
WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED
LXIII. The Red Fisherman; or, The Devil's Decoy 257
LXIV. Mad--Quite Mad 264
BENJAMIN DISRAELI (LORD BEACONSFIELD)
LXV. Popanilla on Man 270
ROBERT BROWNING
LXVI. Cristina 277
LXVII. The Lost Leader 280
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
LXVIII. Piscator and Piscatrix 281
LXIX. On a Hundred Years Hence 283
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
LXX. Spectator Ab Extra 292
C.S. CALVERLEY
LXXI. "Hic Vir, Hic Est" 296