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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part
The Satires of William Gifford
part |30 pages
The Baviad (1791)
part |35 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)
part |3 pages
‘Imitation of Bion. Written at St. Ann’s Hill’ (1798)
part |17 pages
Epistle to Peter Pindar (1800)
part |49 pages
Satires on William Gifford
part |16 pages
Modern Manners. A Poem. In Two Cantos (1793)
part |13 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)
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)
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)
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)
part |2 pages
‘To Della Crusca’ (1787)
part |3 pages
‘To Anna Matilda’
part |3 pages
‘Elegy, Written on the Plain of Fontenoy’ (1787)
part |4 pages
‘Stanzas to Della Crusca’ (1787)
part |2 pages
‘To Della Crusca’ (1787)
part |3 pages
‘To Anna Matilda’ (1788)
part |2 pages
‘Sonnet. On an Air Balloon’ (1788)
part |3 pages
‘The African Boy’ (1788)
part |4 pages
‘The Interview’ (1789)
part |2 pages
‘To Leonardo’ (1789)
part |3 pages
‘To the Nightingale’ (1789)
part |18 pages
The Laurel of Liberty; A Poem (1790)
part |10 pages
Ainsi va le Monde (1790)
part |2 pages
‘To Laura’ (1790)
part |3 pages
‘The Invitation. To Delia’ (1790)
part |4 pages
‘Henry Deceived’ (1790)
part |5 pages
From The New Cosmetic, or The Triumph of Beauty. A Comedy (1791)
part |3 pages
‘Epilogue, Written by Miles Peter Andrews, Esq. and spoken by Mrs Mattocks’ (1791)
part |3 pages
‘Rinaldo to Laura Maria’ (1791)
part |2 pages
‘To the Muse of Poetry’ (1791)
part |2 pages
‘Echo to him who complains’ (1791)
part |3 pages
‘Epilogue’ to The Rage (1795)
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)