ABSTRACT

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.

chapter

Introduction

part

The Satires of William Gifford

part |30 pages

The Baviad (1791)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |28 pages

The Baviad (1791)

part |35 pages

The Mæviad (1795)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

chapter |34 pages

The Mæviad (1795)

part |2 pages

‘Imitation. Dactylics. Being the quintessence of all the Dactylics that ever were, or ever will be written’ (1797)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

chapter |1 pages

The Soldier’s Wife.

Dactylics.

part |3 pages

‘Imitation of Bion. Written at St. Ann’s Hill’ (1798)

part |17 pages

Epistle to Peter Pindar (1800)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

chapter |16 pages

Introduction.

part |49 pages

Satires on William Gifford

part |16 pages

Modern Manners. A Poem. In Two Cantos (1793)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |15 pages

Modern Manners. A Poem. In Two Cantos (1793)

part |13 pages

Out at Last (1801)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

chapter |12 pages

Out at Last (1801)

part |6 pages

‘Lines on “The Baviad” and “The Pursuits of Literature”’ (1797; 1806)

part |12 pages

Ultra-Crepidarius: A Satire on William Gifford (1823)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |133 pages

‘The Heroes and Heroines of the Baviad’: an Anthology of Della Cruscan Verse

part |2 pages

‘Dedication’ and ‘Preface’ to The Florence Miscellany (1785)

part |3 pages

‘Madness’ (1785)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |2 pages

‘To Wm. Parsons, Esq.’ (1785)

part |2 pages

‘To Mrs Piozzi, in Reply, Written on the Anniversary of her Wedding 25 July 1785’ (1785)

chapter |2 pages

‘Address to Benedict’ (1787)

part |2 pages

‘The Adieu and Recall to Love’ (1787)

part |2 pages

‘To Della Crusca: The Pen’ (1787)

part |2 pages

‘To Anna Matilda’ (1787)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |2 pages

‘To Della Crusca’ (1787)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |3 pages

‘To Anna Matilda’

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |3 pages

‘Elegy, Written on the Plain of Fontenoy’ (1787)

part |4 pages

‘Stanzas to Della Crusca’ (1787)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |2 pages

‘To Della Crusca’ (1787)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |3 pages

‘To Anna Matilda’ (1788)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part |2 pages

‘Sonnet. On an Air Balloon’ (1788)

part |3 pages

‘The African Boy’ (1788)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |4 pages

‘The Interview’ (1789)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |2 pages

‘To Leonardo’ (1789)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

chapter |1 pages

‘To Her Whom I Saw Weep’ (1789)

part |3 pages

‘To the Nightingale’ (1789)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |18 pages

The Laurel of Liberty; A Poem (1790)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |2 pages

‘To Laura’ (1790)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

chapter |2 pages

‘The Voice we Love’ (1790)

part |3 pages

‘The Invitation. To Delia’ (1790)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |4 pages

‘Henry Deceived’ (1790)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

chapter |2 pages

‘To Emma’ (1790)

part |5 pages

From The New Cosmetic, or The Triumph of Beauty. A Comedy (1791)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

chapter |6 pages

Scene III.

part |3 pages

‘Epilogue, Written by Miles Peter Andrews, Esq. and spoken by Mrs Mattocks’ (1791)

chapter |3 pages

‘Ode To Della Crusca’

part |3 pages

‘Rinaldo to Laura Maria’ (1791)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |2 pages

‘To the Muse of Poetry’ (1791)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part |2 pages

‘Echo to him who complains’ (1791)

part |3 pages

‘Epilogue’ to The Rage (1795)

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part |3 pages

‘Epilogue’ to The Will. A Comedy (1797)

part |62 pages

Appendices

part |20 pages

‘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.’ (1798)

part |40 pages

A Letter to William Gifford, Esq. From William Hazlitt, Esq. (1819)