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Abridgment (Calamy), 463Absalom and Achitophel (Dryden), 138, 141–2,

180, 190–1, 206Account of the Life and Writings of Cowley

(Sprat), 431Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr David

Brainerd, An (Edwards), 465Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa,

An (Falconbridge), 734–5Acis and Galatea (Handel), 435Act of Uniformity of 1662, 446Act of Union (1707), 260, 278Adams, John Quincy, 774Addison, Joseph, 175

advice poems by, 161on country public houses, 72on Gothic literature, 683on literary criticism, 482, 485–7on old English ballads, 612periodical essays by, 405–6, 538–9political pamphlets by, 557travel narratives, 710–12worksThe Campaign, 184Cato, 120, 328Essay on Virgil’s Georgics, 194The Pleasures of Imagination, 405–6

Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry,The (Dennis), 479

Adventurer ( Johnson), 544Adventures of a Bank-Note, The (Bridges), 573Adventures of Five Hours, The (Tuke), 123advice and conduct books, 69–70Advice to a Young Student (Waterland), 453Aeneas, 153Aeneid, The, 201Aeneis (Dryden), 147aesthetics, 487–8, 812Age of Louis XIV, 433

Age of Reason, 423Agnes de Castro (Behn), 91Agriculture (Dodsley), 280Aikin, Anna Letitia, 314Akenside, Mark

On Leaving Holland, 310On Lyric Poetry, 310Pleasures of Imagination, 302–3

Alarme to Unconverted Sinners (Alleine), 456Albion and Albanius (Dryden), 120, 434Alchemist, The ( Jonson), 327Alcibiades (Otway), 117Aldrich, Henry, 48Alexander, William, 381Alexander’s Feast (Dryden), 435Alfred (Blackmore), 202Algarotti, Francesco, 415Alleine, Joseph, 456Allestree, Richard, 456All for Love (Dryden), 114, 150Allusion to Horace, An (Rochester), 45Alma, or the Progress of the Mind (Prior), 205almanacs, 70–1Ambitious Statesman, The (Crowne), 118Amelia (Henry Fielding), 32American Revolution, 519–20Ames, Richard, 190Anacreon, 200Analogy of Divine Wisdom (Barton), 397Analogy of Religion, The (Butler), 398–9, 410,

792Anatomy of Atheism, An (Dawes), 196Ancient and Modern Learning (Temple), 48Anderson, Robert

Epistle to Burns, 359–61Memoir, 358–9

Andrews, Joseph, 816Annales Rerum Anglicarum (Camden), 366Annus Mirabilis (Dryden), 136–8, 151

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anonymity in poetry, 173–4Anson, George, 729answer poem, 40Anti-Pamela (Haywood), 102Apollo and Daphne (Rich), 318Apology, The (Churchill), 293–4Apology for Poetrie (Sidney), 472Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (Cibber),

128, 662–4apprentice’s guide, 70aquatint, 28Architecture of Humanism, The: A Study in the

History of Taste (Scott), 675–6Armstrong, John

The Art of Preserving Health, 196, 283The Oeconomy of Love, 282–3

Arne, Thomas Augustine, 332May Day, 332The Village Opera, 332

Ars Poetica (Horace), 196, 692Artaxerxes (Arne), 332Arte of English Poesie (Puttenham), 472Art of Cookery, The (King), 196Art of Dancing, The ( Jenyns), 196Art of Dress, The (Breval), 196Art of English Poetry (Bysshe), 472Art of Life, The (Miller), 196Art of Politicks, The (Bramstone), 196Art of Preaching, The (Dodsley), 196Art of Preserving Health, The (Armstrong), 196,

283Art of Printing, The (Grierson), 196arts in poetry, 203Arulia; or the Victim of Sensibility, 573, 574Assignation, The: A Sentimental Novel, 588Assignation, The (Dryden), 122Astell, Mary, 414

Reflections on Marriage, 415Serious Proposal to the Ladies, 94

Astley, Philip, 82Astraea Redux (Dryden), 134astrological almanacs, 71Atheist, The (Otway), 122Athenae Oxonienses (Wood), 463Athenian Mercury (Dunton), 252, 529

content and style, 529–30critics of, 530–1dependence on coffee houses and post

office, 529female readership, 530

Atlas Maritimus & Commercialis (Defoe), 730–1Atterbury, Francis, 48attributions, 173–4

Aubin, Penelope, 99auction, 18audience (theatre), 336–7Augustan writing, 503

cultural crises in, 515England in, 507English commerce in, 504, 510–11Georgic commerce in, 518translatio imperii in, 516–17

Aureng Zebe (Dryden), 114, 206Austen, Jane, 673, 745authors and authorship, 37–60

changing world of, 42–4clubs, 49–52coffee houses and the public sphere, 52–5collaborations, 40–1literary circles, 44–9manuscript and print cultures, 55–60sale of manuscripts to booksellers, 33–4social dimension of writing, 38–42

Author’s Farce, The (Henry Fielding), 65, 80,131, 320

Authorship in the Days of Johnson (Collins), 43autobiographies, 649–72

characteristics of, 654–5definition of, 654vs. diaries, 654–8and history, 373–4lives and deaths in, 669–72modesties and vanities in, 662–4origins and trajectories, 650–4singularities and multiplicities in, 658–62solitudes and sociabilities in, 664–9

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman(Wollstonecraft), 574

Ayloffe, John, 190

Bacon, Francisdivine philosophy, 396Historie of the Reign of Henry VII, 366

Baillie, Joanna, 214Bailyn, Bernard, 506Baker, Henry, 195ballad operas, 130, 318–19, 330ballads, 72–5, 161, 167Banks, John, 118Bannerman, Anne, 214Barbauld, Anna Laetitia

domestic poem by, 211on Elizabeth Singer Rowe, 213on literary criticism, 496–7odes by, 314retirement poems by, 231

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worksThe British Novelists, 496–7Washing Day, 216

Barber, Mary, 176epilogues by, 226To Mrs Strangeways Homer, 215publication of poems by, 211

Barclay, Alexander, 425baroque tragedy, 112–20Barrett, Eaton Stannard, 574Barthelemon, Francois-Hippolyte, 331Barton, Richard, 397Baskerville, John, 28Bason, The (Coffey), 195Battle of the Books, The (Swift), 237, 403Baxter, Richard

A Christian Directory, 457–8Breviate of the Life of Margaret Baxter, 461A Call to the Unconverted, 456, 457–8A Christian Directory, 456The Poor Man’s Family Book, 456, 457

Bayly, Lewis, 455Baynard, Edward, 195Beadle, John, 651–2Beattie, James

The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius,304–5, 351–2

use of Scottish language by, 348Beau Defeated, The (Pix), 129Beauties of Enfield, The (Baker), 195Beauties of Sterne, The, 596beauty, philosophy of, 404–5Beaux’ Stratagem, The (Farquhar), 127, 323Beckford, William, 676Bee, The (Goldsmith), 545Beggar’s Opera, The (Gay), 74

as first ballad opera, 130origin of, 51political satire in, 250songs in, 330, 435

Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement,The (Phelps), 803

Behn, Aphra, 87–8on Bernard Fontenelle, 416–17comedies by, 128–9epistles, 39on literary criticism, 474novels of amorous intrigue by, 90–1satires by, 189worksAgnes de Castro, 91The Dutch Lover, 474The Fair Jilt, 91

The Fair Vow-Breaker, 91The History of the Nun, 91Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His

Sister, 88–90The Luckey Chance, 129Oroonoko: Or the Royal Slave, 91, 119, 576,

594, 741–2The Rover, 123, 128

Beljame, Alexander, 43Bennet, John, 280Bentham, Edward, 453Bentley, Richard, 48Berenice (Racine), 117Berkeley, Bishop George, 175, 177,

401–2Bernbaum, Ernest, 324Betsy Thoughtless (Haywood), 755–8Bickerstaffe, Isaac, 331–2

Lionel and Clarissa, 332Love in a Village, 331–2The Maid of the Mill, 332

Bickerstaff Papers, The (Swift), 71biographies and memoirs, 369Birch, Thomas, 463Birkhead, Edith, 676Birth of the Squire, The; An Eclogue (Gay),

179Blackmore, Richard

Alfred, 202Job, 202Prince Arthur, 202Satyr against Wit, 188

Blackwell, Thomas, 604An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of

Homer, 488, 604Letters Concerning Mythology, 620

Blair, HughCritical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian,

496on eloquence, 771on history of manners, 380

Blake, William, 68, 620–1Blamire, Susanna, 211

authorship, 357–8odes by, 223poetry of, 210

blank verse, 165, 167, 299–300Blasphemy Act of 1698, 447Bleinheim (Philips), 184‘Bluestockings,’ 750Boadicea, Queen of Britain (Hopkins), 118Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas

on genres, 178, 179

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Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas (cont.)worksLe Lutrin, 425Reflexions critiques, 427

Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount, Henry St John,368, 378, 560–1

Bolingbroke and his Circle (Kramnick), 499Book of Common Prayer, 446bookseller-publishers, 25

capital requirements, 29–30determinants of profits, 35–6experimentations in book presentation, 27success of, 20–2

booksellers, 19acquisition of manuscripts from authors,

33–4commercial advertising, 31contracting out to printers, 19–20credit terms, 33Irish piracies and Scottish reprints, 24–5marketing of poetry, 161, 169–70, 202–3reprinting of classic works, 24risks in financing publications, 22–3sales of open market publications, 18–19subscription publishing, 34–5trade discounts, 32–3

bookselling. See publishing and booksellingbook trade, 35

commodification of literature in, 36growth of, 15–16

Boswell, Jamestravel narratives, 713–14worksCurious Productions, 68Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 381The Life of Samuel Johnson, 66, 498, 666writing style, 665–9

Bouhours, Dominique, 426Bowles, William Lisle, 315Boyle, Charles, 48Boyle, Roger, 114Boyle, Sir Robert, 175Bracegirdle, Anne, 119Brady, Nicholas, 469Bramston, James, 196Brereton, Jane

epistle by, 217–18friendship poems by, 229, 230publication of poems by, 211retirement poems by, 231

Breval, J. D., 196Breviate of the Life of Margaret Baxter, A

(Baxter), 461

Bridges, Thomas, 573Brief Lives (Aubrey), 159Briscoe, Sophia, 586Britannia (Camden), 480Britannia (Ogilby), 721British America, 498–523

Augustan writings on, 503Country ideology, 502–3Country opposition, 499and Excise Crisis of 1973, 502Georgic commerce in, 505–6imperium issue in, 512–14landscape in, 523revolution in, 519–20source of English oppression, 506translatio imperii in, 517–18

British Novelists, The (Barbauld), 496–7British Princes, The (Howard), 45broadsides, 70–5Brome, Alexander, 203Brooke, Frances

The History of Emily Montague, 746, 766–7Lady Julia Mandeville, 588, 592Letters from Lady Juliet Catesby, 576

Brooke, HenryThe Fool of Quality, 587, 592Universal Beauty, 196

Brothers Club, 50, 51Brougham, Henry Lord, 779Brown, Marshall, 764, 804–6Bruce, James, 737Bruner, Jerome, 654Bruss, Elizabeth, 654Brutus ( Jacob), 202Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of,

44–5Budgell, Eustace, 540Bunyan, John

autobiographical writing of, 461, 656–7readership, 176social life, 38works , 458Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 461,

656–7The Life and Death of Mr Badman, 457The Pilgrim’s Progress, 458, 459, 461

Burke, Edmundeloquence of, 768–93

allusions in, 790–1education, 770and literary skills, 785–6satires in, 791–2

Enlightenment writings, 444

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on Gothic literature, 691political pamphlets by, 565–6, 567–9, 776printed letters, 777–8procedure of analogy, 792–3on Samuel Johnson, 500speeches, 776–7

audience, 774–6British polity, 771on conciliation with American colonies,

522, 772–3impeachment of Warren Hastings, 770–1loco-descriptive poetry in, 788–90prospect view, 787publication of, 777

on tragedy as a political genre, 786travel narratives, 732worksOn Conciliation with the Colonies, 522Letters on a Regicide Peace, 789A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our

Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 487,813

Reflections on the Revolution in France, 551–2,567–9, 785, 786–7

Speech on American Taxation, 777Thoughts on the Cause of the Present

Discontents, 776, 777burlesques, 320burlettas, 330–1Burnet, Gilbert

History of His Own Time, 372–3History of My Own Times, 253History of the Reformation of the Church of

England, 372–3Burnet, Thomas, 399–400Burnett, James, 407Burney, Frances, 34, 665–9, 751, 761–3Burns, Robert, 340–2

admiration outside of Scotland, 361alternative perspective from, 342criticisms in subsequent centuries, 349influence of, 359–61Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 345preference for natural composition,

341–2use of metaphor by, 345use of Scottish language by, 344–6, 348–9

Bussy D’Ambois (Chapman), 110Busy Body, The (Centlivre), 129Butler, Joseph, 453

The Analogy of Religion, 398–9, 410, 792Butler, Samuel, 44, 166

Hudibras, 166, 188

Butt, John, 800Butterfield, Herbert, 398Byng, John, 707Byrd, William, 513–14Byron, Harriet, 482Bysshe, Edward, 472

Calamy, Edmund, 463Call to the Unconverted, A (Baxter), 456, 457Camden, William

Annales Rerum Anglicarum, 366Britannia, 480

Campaign, The (Addison), 184Campbell, George, 392–3, 773–4, 779Candide (Voltaire), 441–2Canetti, Elias, 699Canning, George, 574Canterbury Tales, The (Tyrwhitt), 495Careless Husband, The (Cibber), 327Carey, Henry, 330Carlyle, Thomas, 369Carolaides (Howard), 201Carter, Elizabeth

education of, 219poems by, 229publication of poems by, 211translations, 414use of dialogue by, 415–16

Castle of Andalusia, The (O’Keefe), 333Castle of Indolence, The (Thomson), 348Castle of Otranto, The (Walpole), 495, 673–4,

701, 704–5Catholics, 447Cato (Addison), 120, 328Cato’s Letters, 559–60Cavalier poets, 176Cavendish, Margaret, 176

autobiographical writing of, 649–50,669–70

on literary criticism, 476writing style of, 659–60

Cecil, William, 114censorship, 317, 321–2Centlivre, Susanna, 129, 323Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 688Chambers, Sir William, 729–30

Cyclopedia, 443Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, 729–30

Chandler, MaryThe Description of Bath, 195poems by, 211publication of poems by, 211

changeable sceneries, 335–6

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chapbooks, 64for adults, 68crime stories in, 66heroic adventures and romances, 64–5history and biography in, 66jestbooks, 65–6religious publications, 66–7songbooks, 65

Chapman, George, 110chapmen, 18Chapone, Hester, 211, 381Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions and

Times (Shaftesbury), 404, 578Character of a Coffee House, 54Charke, Charlotte, 662–4Charles II, 423Chatterton, Thomas, 616–17Cheap Repository of Moral and Religious Tracts

(More), 66–7Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 635–9children’s books, 67–8Chinese shadows, 82chinoiserie, 729–30Christ Church wits, 48–9, 51Christian Behaviour, (Baxter), 458Christian Directory, A (Baxter), 456, 457–8Christian Library, A (Wesley), 455Christmas Tale, A (Garrick), 332Chudleigh, Mary, 174

To Eugenia. On her Pastoral, 229poems by, 210

Churchill, Charles, 293–7The Apology, 293–4The Ghost, 294–5Gotham, 296–7Night, 294The Prophecy of Famine, 293The Rosciad, 293

Church of England, 445–6danger of enthusiasm, 449and Evangelical Revival, 447–8high churchmen, 446latitudinarians, 445nonconformists, 446–7practical books, 455–6and Roman Catholics, 447

Cibber, Colley, 662–4Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, 128, 662–4The Careless Husband, 327Love’s Last Shift, 128The Provok’d Husband, 127, 323

Cicero, 769–70Cid, le, 425

Circuit of Apollo (Finch), 226–7Citizen of the Word, The (Goldsmith), 546–7Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud), 91civil wars, 178, 278Clandestine Marriage, The (Garrick), 325Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 44, 369–72Clarissa (Richardson), 582–6, 705Clarke, Charlotte, 128Clarke, Samuel, 452–3Cleomenes (Dryden), 41Clifford, Martin, 44clubs, 49–52Cobb, James, 333Cockburn, Catherine Trotter

poems by, 218–19publication of poems by, 211writing style, 221

coffee houses, 52–5Coffey, Charles, 195, 318–19Colemira: A Culinary Eclogue (Shenstone), 195Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 315Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People

called Methodists, A (Wesley), 468Collection of Old Ballads, A, 612Collection of Poems, For and Against

Dr Sacheverel, 170Collection of Psalms and Hymns, A (Wesley), 468Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments

(Richardson), 583Collier, Jeremy, 121, 478

A Short View of the Immorality andProfaneness of the English Stage, 478

Collier, Mary, 213, 218–19Collins, A. S.

Authorship in the Days of Johnson, 43Collins, William

odes by, 312, 602–3Persian Eclogues, 272–3

Collyer, Mary, 576Colman, George, 210Colonel Jack (Defoe), 576comedies, 121–31

in 1730s, 319–20dominant forms of, 323–4in mid and late eighteenth century, 323–8sentimental comedies, 317types of, 323

comic dramatists, 324–5comic operas, 331–2Common Sense (Paine), 517, 540, 561, 784Compleat History of England (Smollett), 366, 376Compleat Servant-Maid, The; or The Young

Maiden’s Tutor (Wolley), 69

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Complete View of the Manners, Customs, Arms,Habits etc. of the Inhabitants of England(Strutt), 381

Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage( Johnson), 500

Comus (Milton), 330Concannen, Matthew, 195Conduct of the Allies (Swift), 254, 550, 551, 556–7conger system, 14, 35Congreve, William, 127

practice, 176worksThe Double Dealer, 127, 327Incognita, 494–5Love for Love, 127The Mourning Bride, 119The Old Batchelour, 127The Way of the World, 127, 337Works, 111

Conjectures on Original Composition (Young),816

Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, The(Dryden), 114

Conscious Lovers, The (Steele), 128, 320, 323,394

Considerations on the Present German War, 552,563

Cook, James, 737–41Cooke, Thomas, 176Cooper, Anthony Ashley, 404Cooper’s Hill (Denham), 195, 279copper-plate methods, innovations in, 28–9copyrights

division in shares, 23laws, 23–4value of, 23

Corneille, Pierre, 424Coste, Pierre, 430Country Gentleman, The (Buckingham and

Howard), 45Country Gentlemen of England, To the,

(Akenside), 310country-house poem, 279Country ideology, 499–500

celebration of trade in, 505and fate of traditional society, 502–3and National Debt, 507–10

Country Wife, The (Wycherley), 124Country Wit, The (Crowne), 125couplets, 166–7, 300Course on Lectures on Principal Subjects in

Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity(Doddridge), 453

court poets, 176, 203Covent Garden Journal, 540–1Covent Garden Theatre, 316–17, 322Cowley, Abraham, 44, 171, 199Cowper, William, 297–9

hymn books by, 470works ; 285, 307–9Epigram, 298The Modern Patriot, 297Moral Satires, 297The Negro’s Complaint, 297–8Pity for Poor Africans, 298Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, 298Table-Talk, 298The Task, 285, 298, 307–9, 467, 603Yardley Oak, 286writing style of, 646–8

Crabbe, George, 306–7Craftsman, The, 384, 502, 560Crichton, Alexander, 694Cricket (Dance), 195crime stories, 66Crispe, Henry, 184Critic, The (Sheridan), 85, 326Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian

(Blair), 496Critical History of England (Oldmixon), 384criticism. See literary criticismCritique of Judgment (Kant), 408cross-rhyme, 167Crowne, John, 117–18

The Country Wit, 125Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian,

114, 117–18Crumble-Hall (Leapor), 189, 217, 292Cry, The (Fielding and Collier), 581–2Cumberland, Richard, 327

The Jew, 327The West Indian, 327

Curious Productions (Boswell), 68Curse of Sentiment, The (Dodd), 573, 576Cyclopedia (Chambers), 443Cyder (Philips), 49, 278–9Cymon (Garrick), 332

Dacier, Andre, 426Daily Courant, 527Dampier, William, 731Dance, James, 195Darwall, Mary Whateley, 213

domestic poems by, 215friendship poems by, 230The Power of Destiny, 220

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D’Avenant, William, 424Gondibert, 111, 155The Playhouse to be Let, 130

Davideis (Cowley), 202David Simple (Sarah Fielding), 592, 751, 752–3Death of Knowledge, The (‘W. C.’), 196decasyllabic couplets, 166Defoe, Daniel, 87

autobiographical writing of, 650–1domestic conduct book by, 69historicity of fictions by, 377–8last novel by, 99–100periodical essay by, 531–2political pamphlets by, 554–5political poems by, 186travel narratives, 723–5, 730–1, 742–3worksAtlas Maritimus & Commercialis, 730–1Colonel Jack, 576Family Instructor, 69Legion’s Memorial, 554A Plan of the English Commerce, 504Reformation of Manners, 188The Review, 531–2, 555Robinson Crusoe, 650–1, 742–3Roxana, 99–100A Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great

Britain, 723–5The True-Born Englishman, 186, 480, 554as writer-poet, 175

Delacour, James, 176Delicate Distress, The (Griffith), 751Denham, 195, 279Dennis, John

on criticism, 478–80practice, 175worksThe Advancement and Reformation of Modern

Poetry, 479The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry, 467, 479The Impartial Critic, 426, 479The Usefulness of the Stage, 479

Dent, Arthur, 457Description of Bath, The (Chandler), 195Description of the Morning (Swift), 270Deserted Daughter, The (Holcroft), 327Deserted Village, The (Goldsmith), 284–5,

305–6, 522–3design, 396–7

directions of, 403–6divine analogy in, 397–8as hypothesis about order, 402–3masculine beauty in, 400–1

Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian(Crowne), 114, 117–18

Devil to Pay, The (Coffey–Motley), 318–19devotional literature, 455, 459Dialogue on Beauty (Stubbes), 392, 397, 410dialogues, 40Dialogues of the Dead (Fontenelle), 394Diaper, William, 176, 271–2diaries, 649–72

vs. autobiographies, 654–8characteristics of, 654–5lives and deaths in, 669–72modesties and vanities in, 662–4origins and trajectories, 650–4singularities and multiplicities in, 658–62solitudes and sociabilities in, 664–9

Diary (Pepys), 655–6Dibdin, Charles, 332

The Padlock, 332Poor Vulcan, 331

Dictionary of British and American WomenWriters – (Todd), 806

Dictionary of the English Language ( Johnson),32, 314, 395, 490

didactic poetry, 187–8See also poetryafter death of Alexander Pope,

299–309blank verse, 299–300varieties and sizes of, 193–4, 196

Diderot, Denis, 443Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), 434Digression sur les anciens et les modernes

(Fontenelle), 427Discorsi (Machiavelli), 116Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of

Satire, A (Dryden), 153Discours sur la nature de l’eglogue (Fontenelle),

261Discovery of New Worlds, A (Fontenelle),

416–17discursive poetry, 299–309Dispensary, The (Garth), 188, 193–4dissenters, 218Dissertatio de Carmine Pastorali (Rapin), 261Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (Chambers),

729–30divine analogy, 397divine philosophy, 396, 407Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language, for the

Use of Children (Watts), 67Dixon, Sarah, 176, 211–12, 216–17Dodd, Charles, 573, 576

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Doddridge, PhilipCourse on Lectures on Principal Subjects in

Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity, 453Lectures on Preaching, 454–5Rise and Progress, 460Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the

Honorable Col. James Gardiner, 465Dodsley, James, 21Dodsley, Robert, 171

Agriculture, 280The Art of Peaching, 196Collection, 226Dodsley Miscellanies, 171The King and the Milles of Mansfield, 321poems by, 210

Dodsley Miscellanies (Dodsley), 171domestic poetry, 216–18Don Carlos (Otway), 117Donn, Rob, 356Don Sebastian (Dryden), 114, 146Double Dealer, The (Congreve), 127, 327Douglas, 328Douglas, Gavin, 344Dragon of Wantley, The (Carey-Lampe), 330Drake, Judith, 414drama. See theatredramatists, women, 128Drapier’s Letters, The (Swift), 245, 558drolls, 75–6Drury Lane Theatre, 318

hiring of Henry Fielding, 320mainpieces, 316–17one-composer dialogue opera, 332patent, 321reopening of, 322

Dryden, John, 132–59comedies by, 122contributions to English prose, 155–6criticisms from theatrical rivals, 149–50,

476–8dedications, 58elegies and odes by, 138heroic drama by, 149heroic plays and tragedies by, 114–15idioms of art by, 153–9last years of, 205–6mastery of irony by, 156–8membership in Royal Society, 431opera by, 434pastorals by, 262–3poetry by, 135–48portrait of, 133social world of, 38–9

as theorist and apologist for contemporaryliterature, 148–53

theory of translation, 151, 152–3translations of Virgil by, 146–8, 151–2, 156worksAbsalom and Achitophel, 138, 141–2, 180,

190–1, 206Albion and Albanius, 120, 434Alexander’s Feast, 435All for Love, 114, 150Annus Mirabilis, 136–8, 151The Assignation, 122Astraea Redux, 134Aureng Zebe, 114, 206Cleomenes, 41The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, 114A Discourse Concerning the Original and

Progress of Satire, 153Don Sebastian, 114, 146The Duke of Guise, 139Essay of Dramatic Poesy, 40, 111, 132, 134–5,

425, 474–6An Essay Upon Satyr, 46An Evening’s Love, 122Examen Poeticum, 41, 477–8Fables Ancient and Modern, 142, 155Heroic Stanzas, 134, 157The Hind and the Panther, 138, 142, 144–5,

154The Indian Emperor, 114The Indian Queen, 114The Kind Keeper; or Mr Limberham, 112King Arthur, 120, 434MacFlecknoe, 138, 139–40, 189, 206Marriage a-la-Mode, 115, 122, 123The Medal; A Satyr against Sedition, 190Oedipus, 139Religio Laici, 138, 143–4, 206Secret Love, 114, 122The State of Innocence, 114Sylvae, 41, 151Tyrannic Love, 40, 114Works of Virgil, 34–5, 147

Dryden Miscellanies, 171Dubos, Abbe Jean Baptiste, 426Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster), 118Duck, Stephen

as poet, 174worksThe Shunamite, 347The Thresher’s Labour, 274, 277writing style of, 346–7

Duenna, The (Sheridan–Linley), 332–3

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Duffet, Thomas, 130Duke of Guise, The (Dryden), 139Duke’s Company, 109, 112Dunciad, The (Pope), 73

catalogues of transgressive generation in,77

redactions of, 189as response to material aestheticism, 250

Dunciad Variorum (Pope), 40, 51Dunton, John

Athenian Mercury, 529The Life and Errors of John Dunton, 252

Durfey, Thomas, 112A Fond Husband, 112Madame Fickle, 125

Dutch Lover, The (Behn), 474Dyce, Alexander, 212Dyer, John, 176, 281

The Fleece, 281, 283–4, 504Grongar Hill, 195Ruins of Rome, 515–16

Ecclesiastes, 403Edwards, Jonathan, 465

An Account of the Life of the Late ReverendMr David Brainerd, 465

An Extract of the Life of the Late Rev. Mr DavidBrainerd, 465

Edwards, Thomas, 314Egerton, Sarah Fyge

poems by, 210as poet, 176writing style of, 221

Eighteenth-Century English Romantic Poetry(Partridge), 803

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets (Lonsdale),224, 806

eight-syllable couplets, 166Elegiac Sonnets and Other Essays (Smith), 224,

231, 315elegies, 166Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard (Gray),

273, 303–4Elements de la philosophie de Newton (Voltaire),

439Elements of Criticism (Kames), 487Elinor James’s Advice to the King and Parliament

( James), 73Eliot, T. S., 301Eliza (Blackmore), 202Ellwood, Thomas, 462Emblematical Print of the South Sea Scheme

(Hogarth), 85

Emma: or, The Unfortunate Attachment. ASentimental Novel (Spencer), 589

Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle (Smith), 233,765

Empress of Morocco, The (Settle), 118, 130Englands Helicon, 266–7English history, rewriting of, 480–2English literature and thought, 423–44

Charles Saint-Evremond and theHuguenot connection, 428–33

competition with French classicism, 424–8operas, 433–6Voltaire, 436–44

English operas, 332–3, 434engraving, innovations in, 28–9Enlightenment, 98, 412, 426Enlightenment histories, 383–4Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, An

(Hume), 408, 411–12Enquiry concerning Social Justice, An (Godwin),

571Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, An

(Hume), 579Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer, An

(Blackwell), 488, 604Enthusiast, The: Or the Lover of Nature

(Warton), 273Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes

(Fontenelle), 416–17epics, 200–2Epigram (Cowper), 298epigrams, 166epilogues, 39–40, 111, 164, 165Epistles, 151Epistles of Phalaris, 482Epistle to a Lady, An (Leapor), 292Epistle to Artemisia, An (Leapor), 292Epistle to Augustus (Pope), 191Epistle to Bathurst (Pope), 503Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (Pope), 192, 220, 223Epistle to Lady Bowyer, An ( Jones), 291Epistle to William Hogarth, An (Churchill),

296Epitaph, An (Prior), 182Epsom-Wells (Otway), 122Equiano, Olaudah

autobiography, 660–2Interesting Narrative, 521, 735–6travel narratives, 735–6

Errors of Sensibility, The, 573Essai sur l’etude de la litterature (Gibbon), 378Essay concerning Human Understanding, An

(Locke), 451–2

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Essay of Dramatic Poesy (Dryden), 132, 134–5,474–6

Essay on Criticism, An (Pope), 483–5Essay on Dramatick Poesie (Dryden), 40Essay on Happiness, An (Nugent), 196Essay on Man (Pope), 196Essay on Pope (Warton), 501Essay on Reason, An (Harte), 196Essay on Taste, An (Gerard), 485Essay on the History of Civil Society (Ferguson),

367, 380Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope

(Warton), 489Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear

(Montagu), 489Essay on Virgil’s Georgics (Addison), 194Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste

(Alison), 485Essay Upon Satyr, An (Dryden and Mulgrave),

46Esther (Handel), 435Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the

Times (Brown), 764Etherege, George, 125–6Eunomous, or Dialogues concerning the Law and

Constitution of England (Wynne), 402Euphemia (Lennox), 746Evangelical Revival, 447–8Evelina (Burney), 34, 761–3Evening’s Love, An (Dryden), 122Evergreen, The: A Collection of Scots Poems

(Ramsay), 354, 612Examen Poeticum (Dryden), 41, 477–8Excessive Sensibility, 573Excise Crisis of 1793, 502Exclusion crisis, 119, 140–1exemplary comedies, 323Extract of the Life of the Late Rev. Mr David

Brainerd, An (Edwards), 465

Fable of the Bees, The (Mandeville), 510, 578fables, 227–8Fables Ancient and Modern (Dryden), 142, 155Faction Detected (Perceval), 552Fair Jilt, The (Behn), 91Fair Penitent, The (Rowe), 119, 319fairs, 75–7Falconar, Maria, 214Falconbridge, Alexander, 734–5Fall, The (Thurston), 196Fall of Bajaset, The (Settle), 76Fall of Mortimer, The, 321False Alarm, The ( Johnson), 501, 507, 566–7

False Count, The (Shadwell), 129False Delicacy (Kelly), 326Familiar Letters (Richardson), 69Family Instructor, The (Defoe), 69family letters, 124Family Secrets (Melmoth), 689Fane, Francis, 123Fantastic, The: A Structural Approach to a

Literary Genre (Todorov), 695–6farces, 79–80, 323Farmer, The (O’Keefe), 333Farquhar, George, 79, 127

The Beaux’ Stratagem, 127, 323The Recruiting Officer, 127The Stage Coach, 79, 323

Fatal Curiosity (Lillo), 319Fatal Dowry, The (Massinger), 119Fatal Marriage, The (Southerne), 119, 319Fate of Capua, The (Southerne), 120Fate of Villainy, The (Walker), 319Fawcett, Benjamin, 458Feingold, Richard, 504Female Advocate, The; A Poem (Barbauld), 211Female Fire-Ships, The; A Satyr against Whoring

(Ames), 190Female Prelate, The (Settle), 118Female Quixote, The (Lennox), 753–5Female Spectator (Haywood), 93, 417, 486Female Tatler, The, 536feminism in novels, 92–4Ferguson, Adam

Essay on History of Civil Society, 367, 380on Gaelic language, 611–13

Fergusson, Robert, 344Fielding, Henry

farces by, 79on literary criticism, 472as one of fathers of English novel, 87periodical essays by, 540–1political satires by, 320, 561–2travel narratives, 708–9worksAmelia, 32The Author’s Farce, 65, 80, 131, 320The Historical Register, 131, 320, 321The Intriguing Chambermaid, 130, 318–19Joseph Andrews, 102–3Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, 131,

320, 331The Lottery, 130The Mock Doctor, 80, 130The Modern Husband, 319–20Pasquin, 131, 320

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Fielding, Henry (cont.)Shamela, 102Tom Jones, 32, 34, 95, 374, 592, 769Tom Thumb, 320, 331The Universal Gallant, 319The Welsh Opera, 130, 320

Fielding, SarahThe Cry, 581–2David Simple, 592, 751, 752–3The Governess; or Little Female Academy, 746Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia, 764as poet, 750–1

Fiennes, Celia, 721–3Filmer, Robert, 142Finch, Anne

domestic situations of, 214fables by, 227–8friendship poems by, 228–9odes and Horatian poems by, 224–5, 227as one of Mary of Modena’s court

poets, 47poems by, 212publication of poems by, 210worksCircuit of Apollo, 226–7Life’s Progress, 211, 224–5Miscellany Poems, 41, 225Nocturnal Reverie, 212The Spleen, 210writing style of, 224–7, 231

Fingal (Macpherson), 610–11Five Pastoral Eclogues (Warton), 273Flatman, Thomas, 203Fleece, The (Dyer), 281, 283–4, 504Fletcher, John, 110

The Knight of the Burning Pestle, 130The Prophetess, 120Valentinian, 120

folklore, 602–21definition of, 602Ossianic poetry, 603–5

Fond Husband, A (Durfey), 112Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de

pastorals by, 261–2worksDialogues of the Dead, 394Digression sur les anciens et les modernes, 427Discours sur la nature de l’eglogue, 261Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes, 416–17

Fool of Quality, The (Brooke), 587, 592Foote, Samuel, 325For Children: The Gates of Paradise (Blake), 68Fordyce, David, 577

formula fiction, 91–2, 94–5Fox, George, 462Fox, Joseph, 677Free Thinker, 540Freind, Robert, 48French Academy, 425French classicism, 424–8Freud, Sigmund, 91Friendship in Fashion (Otway), 122friendship poems, 228–30

Gamester, The (Centilivre), 323Gamester, The (Moore), 328Garden and the City, The (Mack), 499Garrick, David, 333–5

acting style, 81–2worksA Christmas Tale, 332The Clandestine Marriage, 325Cymon, 332Harlequin’s Invasion, 337The Jubilee, 332A Peep Behind the Curtain, 331

Garth, Samuel, 188, 193–4Gassendi, Pierre, 429Gay, John, 179, 267–9

The Beggar’s Opera, 51, 74, 130, 250, 330, 435The Birth of the Squire: An Eclogue, 179Rural Sports, 194Shepherd’s Week, 267Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of

London, 179, 194The What D’Ye Call It, 50, 80

General, The (Boyle), 114General, The (Orrery), 424genres, 177–8

ambivalence toward, 178hierarchy of, 183and neoclassicism, 179in poetry, 179–80

Gentleman’s Journal, 56Gentleman’s Magazine, The, 209–10Gentlewoman’s Companion, The (Wolley), 69Genuine History of the Britons Asserted

(Whitaker), 382George III, 507, 562–3Georgic commerce, 505–6, 518Georgic poetry, 260–1

defining text of, 275founding text of, 274–5Industrial Revolution in, 283–4as instructive poetry about work, 194–5pentameter couplets in, 166

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themes in, 276trade and industry in, 280–1variety of topics in, 275

Georgics (Virgil), 275, 277–8, 279, 281–2Gerard, Alexander, 485Ghost, The (Churchill), 294–5Gibbon, Charles, 388–90Gibbon, Edward

autobiography, 671–2travel narratives, 712–13worksEssai sur l’etude de la litterature, 378History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman

Empire, 379, 383Gildon, Charles

as poet, 175worksThe Complete Art of Poetry, 179New Collection of Poems on Several Occasions,

210Gilpin, William, 495Glorious Revolution, 505Glover, Richard, 176

Leonidas, 201London: or, the Progress of Commerce, 518–19

Godwin, William, 571Goff, The (Mathison), 195Golden Pippin, The (O’ Hara), 331Goldsmith, Oliver

comedies by, 326periodical essays by, 545–7poems by, 284–5, 293, 305–6, 522–3worksThe Citizen of the World, 546–7The Deserted Village, 284–5, 305–6, 522–3The Good-Natur’d Man, 326The History of England (1777), 376History of England in Series of Letters from a

Nobleman to his Son, 377Retaliation, 293She Stoops to Conquer, 324, 326The Traveller, 305

Gondibert (D’Avenant), 111, 155Good-Natur’d Man, The (Goldsmith), 326Gordian Knot, The (Griffith), 751Gordon, Thomas, 559–60Gotham (Churchill), 296–7Gothic novels, 673–706

See also novelsarousal of readers, 695, 697–8authors of, 674Britishness of, 684comparison to pornography, 703

concept of sublime in, 690–3and English poetry, 684–5ethnography, 678–9fight-or-flight response to, 698–702and Gothic architecture, 682, 689–90in Italian Renaissance, 679–80literary criticism of, 673–4

aims and methods, 677anti-Romantic view, 677–8in early seventeenth century, 680–1in early twentieth century, 676–7, 686in early late seventeenth and early

eighteenth century, 680feminist critics, 696–7in Italian Renaissance, 679–80

medieval history in, 763–4myth-making in, 681–2popularity of, 687–9as a repressive cultural phenomenon,

705–6solecisms in, 702–3supernatural in, 693–5themes in, 695–6

Gould, Elija, 519The Persistence of Empire, 519

Gould, Robert, 176The Playhouse, 190A Satyr against Wooing, 190

Governess, The; or Little Female Academy (SarahFielding), 746

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners(Bunyan), 461, 656–7

Grainger, James, 275, 281, 504, 520–1Granville, Mary, 727Gray, Thomas, 289

elegies and odes by, 303–4, 310–12Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard, 273,

303–4as literary critic and historian, 496pastorals by, 273satires by, 293sonnets by, 289, 314, 811–12

Grecian Daughter, The (Murphy), 328Grierson, Constantia, 211

The Art of Printing, 196practice, 177

Griffith, Elizabeth, 751The Delicate Distress, 751The Gordian Knot, 751

Grongar Hill (Dyer), 195Grounds of Criticism in Poetry, The (Dennis),

467, 479Grover, Thomas, 28

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Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)basis for, 51exile in horseland, 255–6, 257–8money and trade in, 254–5narrators, 256payment received by Swift for, 34play of words in, 256–7Scriblerian material in, 253state trials in, 254systems satire in, 254–6travel narratives in, 743–4values among Houhynmhnms, 248

Guthrie, William, 573Gwynn, Nell, 40

Habermas, Jurgen, 52–3, 549Haggart, Esther, 73Hamilton, Alexander

Familiar Epistles, 342–3Itinerarium, 506

Handel, George Frideric, 434–6, 467Acis and Galatea, 435Esther, 435Rinaldo, 434

Hands, Elizabeth, 213, 217Hanoverians, 249Hanway, Jonas, 590Harison, William, 195Harlequins, 81–2Harlequin Shepard (Thurmond), 75Harlequin’s Invasion (Garrick), 337Harley, Robert, 177Harlot’s Progress, A (Hogarth), 86Harriot Stuart (Lennox), 746Harris, Joseph, 195Harrison, Susanna, 213Harte, Walter, 176, 196Hastings, Warren, 783Haunted Tower, The (Storace-Cobb),

333Havard, William, 321Haydn, Joseph, 436Haywood, Eliza, 128

didactic novels by, 755–9on literary criticism, 486novels of amorous intrigue by, 91periodical essays, 540popular philosophy in novels, 417–20as progenitor of early novels, 414worksAnti-Pamela, 102Betsy Thoughtless, 755–8Female Spectator, 93, 417, 486

The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy,758–9

Love in Excess, or, The Fatal Inquiry: a Novel,91, 96, 418–19

The Mercenary Lover, 420–1as writer-poet, 175

Hazlitt, William, 780–2Health, a Poem. Shewing How to Procure,

Preserve, and Restore It (Baynard), 195Heaney, Seamus, 359Henley, John, 83–4Henry, Robert, 379Henry and Emma (Prior), 205Herbert, George, 17, 468heroic couplet, 166heroic drama, 149heroic plays, 112–20Heroic Stanzas (Dryden), 134, 157Heroides, 233Heroine, The (Barrett), 574Herringman, Henry, 21Hervey, James, 467Hervey, John, 559Hesiod, 274, 276Higgons, Bevil, 184high churchmen, 446Hill, Aaron, 176, 540Hill, John, 69Hind and the Panther, The (Dryden), 138, 142,

144–5, 154Histoire d’Angleterre (Rapin-Thoyras), 366Histoire de l’Academie francaise

(Pellison-Fontanier), 431Historical Disquisition on India (Robertson), 367Historical Register, The (Henry Fielding), 131,

320, 321historical writing, 366

autobiographies, 373–4biographies and memoirs, 369narrative, 366–8novels, 377–8reader identification with characters in,

375–7rise of specialist historians, 368single-author histories, 366truth in, 378

Historie of the Reign of Henry VII (Bacon), 366Histories of Some of the Penitents in the

Magdalen-House, The, 590–1History and Fall of Casius Marius, The (Otway),

117history and literature (1660–1780), 365

autobiographies, 373–4

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biographies and memoirs, 369Enlightenment histories, 383–4historical truth in, 378historical writing, 366history of manners, 380–3narrative histories, 366–8national history, 382–3novels, 377–8reader identification with characters, 375–7rise of specialist historians, 368single-author histories, 366

History and Present State of Virginia, The(Beverley), 514–15

History of America, The (Robertson), 383History of Britain (Milton), 366History of Emily Montague, The (Brooke), 746,

766–7History of England, The (1777) (Goldsmith), 376History of England (1754–62) (Hume), 366,

375–6, 383, 384History of England (1763–83) (Catherine

Macaulay), 366, 385–7History of England (1849) (Thomas Babington

Macaulay), 42–3History of England from the Revolution to the

Present Time, in a Series of Letters (1778)(Macaulay), 377, 385, 386–7

History of England in Series of Letters from aNobleman to his Son (1764)(Goldsmith), 377

History of English Drama, – (Nicoll),317

History of English Poetry (1774–81) (Warton),381, 617–18

History of George Ellison (Scott), 760History of Great Britain, Written on a New Plan

(1771–93) (Henry), 379History of His Own Time (Burnet), 372History of Insipids, The (Ayloffe), 190History of Jamaica (Long), 732–3History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, The

(Haywood), 758–9History of Joseph (Rowe), 201History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (Newbery),

67History of My Own Times (Burnet), 253History of Scotland (Robertson), 366, 376, 383History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman

Empire (Gibbon), 379, 383History of the Four Last Years of Queen Anne

(Swift), 254History of the Life of Thomas Elwood, The

(Elwood), 462

History of the Nun, The; or, the Fair Vow-Breaker(Behn), 91

History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars inEngland (Clarendon), 369–72

History of the Reformation of the Church ofEngland (Burnet), 372–3

History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V(Robertson), 380, 383

History of the Royal Society (Sprat), 431History of Women from the Earliest Antiquity to

the Present Time (Alexander), 381Hoadly, Benjamin, 324Hogarth, William

epistle to, 296print series by, 85–6subscription tickets as works of art, 85worksEmblematical Print of the South Sea Scheme, 85A Harlot’s Progress, 86The Idle ’Prentice Executed at Tyburn, 61–3Industry and Idleness, 63, 70, 73Southwark Fair, 76, 78

Holcroft, ThomasThe Deserted Daughter, 327The Road to Ruin, 327

Holland, 430Holy Living (Taylor), 455–6Holy War, The, 458Home, John, 328Hop-Garden, The (Smart), 275Hopkins, Charles, 118Horace, 196, 692Horae Lyricae (Watts), 467, 468Horatian epistles, 217–18Horatian Ode (Marvell), 154Howard, Edward, 176, 201

The British Princes, 45Carolaides, 201

Howard, Sir Robert, 148Howard, Sir Robert, and George Villiers,

1st Duke of BuckinghamThe Country Gentleman, 45

Hudibras (Butler), 166, 188Hughes, John, 176, 435humane comedies, 323Human Happiness. A Poem. Adapted to the

Present Times ( Jacob), 196Hume, David

autobiographical writing, 670defence of popular philosophical writing,

411–12on eloquence, 772historical writing, 366, 384–5

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Hume, David (cont.)on inferential reason, 409–10on materialisation of philosophical

medium, 410on metaphysics, 409on morality in sentimental fiction, 578–9on two kinds of philosophers, 408worksAn Enquiry concerning Human

Understanding, 408, 411–12An Enquiry concerning the Principles of

Morals, 579History of England, 366, 375–6, 383, 384Treatise of Human Nature, 375, 408

Humphry Clinker (Smollett), 601Hundred Merrie Tales, 65Hurd, Bishop, 619, 687–8Hutcheson, Francis, 405–6, 487, 578Hutchinson, Lucy, 369Huygens, Christiaan, 430Hymn Book (Madan), 210Hymns and Sacred Poems (Wesley), 468Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Fasts and

Festivals of the Church of England, 469Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Watts), 468Hymns (Watts), 32

Ideological Origins of the American Revolution(Bailyn), 501–2, 506

Idle ’Prentice Executed at Tyburn, The(Hogarth), 61–3

Idler, 544Iliad, 35, 201Imitation of Christ (Kempis), 455Imitations of Horace (Pope), 188Impartial Critic, The (Dennis), 426, 479Inchbald, Elizabeth, 327Incognita (Congreve), 494–5Indian Emperor, The (Dryden), 114Indian Queen, The (Dryden), 114Industry and Idleness (Hogarth), 63, 70, 73Infant Expiring Second Day of its Birth, To An

(Wright), 190inferential reason, 409–10Infidelity; or, The Victims of Sentiment, 573, 574Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty

and Virtue, An (Hutcheson), 406–7, 487Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah

Equiano (Equiano), 521, 735–6Intriguing Chambermaid, The (Henry Fielding),

130, 318–19Introduction, The (Finch), 227Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Bentham), 453

Introduction to the History of Great Britain andIreland (Macpherson), 382

Irene ( Johnson), 328Iron Chest, The (Colman), 333Island Princess, The (Motteux), 329Itinerarium (Hamilton), 506

Jacob, Giles, 196Jacob, Hildebrand, 176, 201, 202Jacobites, 353Jacobite’s Journal (Henry Fielding), 540–1Jacques le Fataliste (Diderot), 443James, Elinor, 73

Elinor James’s Advice to the King andParliament, 73

James, Nicholas, 195James Watson’s Choice Collection of Comic and

Serious Scots Poems, 353–4Jane Shore (Rowe), 119Jenyns, Soame

The Art of Dancing, 196Thoughts on the National Debt, 508–10

Jerusalem (Tasso), 213jestbooks, 65–6Jew, The (Cumberland), 327Job (Blackmore), 202Joe Miller’s Jests, 65–6Johnson, Samuel, 375

antipathy to England’s Country vision, 501on historical writingon literary criticism, 471, 490–2personal letters, 628political pamphlets by, 566–7publication of Rambler, 541–3satires by, 290–1on sonnets, 314on speech, 350tragedies by, 328travel narratives, 725–6works , 492–3Dictionary of the English Language, 32, 314,

395, 490The False Alarm, 501, 507, 566–7Irene, 328Lives of the Poets, 424–5, 501London, 290The Patriot, 567Plays of William Shakespeare, 490Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, 395, 441–2, 609Taxation No Tyranny, 498–9, 501, 567Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting

Falkland’s Islands, 567The Vanity of Human Wishes, 291

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Jones, Marypublication of poems by, 211worksOf Desire. An Epistle to Honorable Miss

Lovelace, 291An Epistle to Lady Bowyer, 223Miscellanies, 291writing style, 216

Jones, Sir William, 313–14, 496Jonson, Ben, 44, 216Joseph Andrews (Henry Fielding), 102–3Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Boswell), 381Journal or Diary of a Thankful Christian

(Beadle), 651–2Jovial Mercury (Dunton), 531Jubilee, The (Garrick), 332Judgment of Paris, The (Barthelemon), 331Julia de Roubigne (Mackenzie), 588Julian, Robert, 56Julia (Williams), 234Junius, 564–5Juvenal and Persius (Dryden), 41

Kames, HenryElements of Criticism, 487Sketches of the History of Man, 380

Kant, Immanuel, 408Keach, Benjamin, 176Kelly, Hugh, 326, 590

False Delicacy, 326Memoirs of a Magdalen, 590

Kelly, John, 319, 590Kemble, John Philip, 334Kempis, Thomas a, 455Ken, Thomas, 176Kensington Gardens (Tickell), 197Killigrew, Anne, 47Killigrew, Thomas, 109–10, 128Kind Keeper, The; or Mr Limberham (Dryden),

112King, William

The Art of Cookery, 196in Christ Church wits, 176as satirist, 48

King and the Milles of Mansfield, The (Dodsley),321

King Arthur (Dryden), 120, 434King Charles the First (Havard), 321King’s Company, 109, 112Kingsmill, Anne, 47Kit Cat Club, 49–50Knight of the Burning Pestle, The (Fletcher), 130Kramnick, Isaac, 499

Lady Julia Mandeville (Brooke), 588, 592Lady’s Dressing Room, The (Swift), 271La Henriade (Voltaire), 436L’Allegro ed il Penseroso (Milton), 435Lamb, Charles, 121Lampe, John Frederick, 330lampoons, 56, 161Laocoon (Lessing), 404Lapraik, John, 340–1La Princesse de Cleves (Madame de Lafayette),

576La serva padrona (Pergolesi), 331Last Instructions to a Painter (Marvell), 170latitudinarians, 445Law, William, 459–60Lawes, Henry, 44lazzi, 129Leapor, Mary, 176

domestic poems by, 217effect-based verses by, 814–15fables by, 228friendship poems by, 229poems by, 189, 211satires by, 291–3worksCrumble-Hall, 189, 217, 292Poems on Several Occasions, 168, 292

Le Bossu, Rene, 178, 426Lectures on Poetry (Trapp), 179, 472Lectures on Preaching (Doddridge), 454Lectures on the Sacred Poesy of the Hebrews

(Lowth), 467, 496Lee, Nathaniel, 113, 115–17

Lucius Junus Brutus Father of His Country,115, 116

The Massacre of Paris, 115, 116–17Nero, 112, 115Oedipus, 139Sophonisba, 115, 319Theodosius, 116

Lee, Sophia, 765Legion’s Memorial (Defoe), 554Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 431–2Leighton-Stone-Air (Harris), 195Leland, John, 410Le Lutrin (Boileau), 425Lennox, Charlotte

poems by, 211publication of poems by, 211worksEuphemia, 746The Female Quixote, 753–5Harriot Stuart, 746

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Leonidas (Glover), 201L’Estrange, Roger, 13letters, personal. See personal lettersLetters Concerning Mythology (Blackwell),

620Letters Concerning the English Nation (Voltaire),

436, 438–9Letters from Lady Juliet Catesby (Brooke), 576Letters on a Regicide Peace (Burke), 789Letters on Chivalry and Romances (Hurd), 619,

687–8Letters on England (Voltaire), 489Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (Hester),

381Letters on the Study and Use of History

(Bolingbroke), 368, 378Letter to a Noble Lord, A (Burke), 789Lettres portugaises (Guilleragues), 576Lewis, Matthew, 685, 692Liberty (Thomson), 196, 501, 681libraries, 29Licensing Act of 1695, 169, 320–2licensing laws, 14, 23–4Life and Death of Mr Badman, The (Bunyan),

457Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (Henry

Fielding), 131Life and Errors of John Dunton Late Citizen of

London (Dunton), 252Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of

Robinson Crusoe, The (Defoe), 650–1,742–3

Life of Madame de Beaumount, a French Lady(Aubin), 99

Life of Samuel Johnson, The (Boswell), 66, 498,666

Life of the Most Reverend Dr John Tillotson(Birch), 463

Life’s Progress (Finch), 211, 224–5Lillo, George, 319

Fatal Curiosity, 319The London Merchant, 120, 319

Lintot, Bernard, 171Lionel and Clarissa (Bickerstaffe), 332literacy rates, 162literary change, in mid and late eighteenth

century, 797–823analysis of, 822–3convenience in, 800–3dates, 799overview, 797–800persistence of preromanticism, 803–6quality and change, 818–22

quality and historicity of literature, 809–17quantity and quality, 806–9rubrics, 799–800

literary circles, 44–9literary criticism, 471–97

aesthetics in, 487–8and diversity of readers, 474and human nature, 473–4orientation of, 472–3periodicals, 472power of critics, 496–7progressive and Romantic views, 494–5and rewriting of English history, 480–2and rise of British empire, 495–6and roots of English poetry, 488–9and war between Ancients and Moderns,

482–5Little Haymarket Theatre, 318, 320Little Pretty Pocketbook, A (Newbery), 67Little Review, 532–3Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (Sarah Fielding),

764Lives of the Poets ( Johnson), 424–5, 501Locke, John, 451–2

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,451–2

Reasonableness of Christianity, 452London Cuckolds, The (Ravenscroft), 123London ( Johnson), 290London Merchant, The (Lillo), 120, 319London Mercury, 531London: or, the Progress of Commerce (Glover),

518–19Long, Edward, 732–3Longinus, 774Lonsdale, Roger, 806–9

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, 224, 806New Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse, 806–7

Lottery, The (Henry Fielding), 130Louis XIV, 423Loutherbourg, Philippe de, 82–3Love a la Mode (Macklin), 325Love for Love (Congreve), 127Love in a Village (Bickerstaffe), 331–2Love in Excess, or, The Fatal Inquiry: a Novel

(Haywood), 91, 96, 418–19Love in the Dark, or the Man of Bus’ness (Fane),

123Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister

(Behn), 88–90Love of Fame (Young), 188Lover’s Vows (Inchbald), 327Love’s Last Shift (Cibber), 128

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Lowth, Robert, 467Lectures on the Sacred Poesy of the Hebrews,

467, 496, 605Praelectiones de Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum, 467,

605Lucius Junus Brutus Father of His Country (Lee),

115, 116Luckey Chance, The (Behn), 129Luctus Britannici; or the Tears of the British

Muses: for the Death of John Dryden, 170Ludlow Masque (Milton), 261Lusiad (Camoens), 511Lycidas (Milton), 261lyrics, 197–200, 309–15, 467–8

Macaulay, CatherineHistory of England (1763–83), 366History of England from the Revolution to the

Present Time, 385–7History of England from the Revolution to the

Present Time, in a Series of Letters (1778),377, 385, 386–7

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 42–3MacCodrum, Iain, 356MacDonald, Alexander, 356MacFlecknoe (Dryden), 138, 139–40, 189, 206MacIntyre, Duncan Ban, 356Mack, Maynard, 499Mackenzie, Henry, 572

The Man of Feeling, 598–9, 600The Man of the World, 588, 599–601

Macklin, Charles, 325–6Love a la Mode, 325The Man of the World, 326The Married Libertine, 326

Macpherson, James, 382criticisms of, 607defenders of, 607Ossian poems by, 604–5

acceptance into canon, 611fragments, 606, 608popularity, 608–9translations, 605–6

preface to Fingal, 610–11works , 609Fingal, 610–11Introduction to the History of Great Britain

and Ireland, 382Madame Fickle (Durfey), 125Madan, Judith Cowper, 211

domestic poems by, 216publication of poems by, 209

Maggots (Wesley), 176

magic lanterns, 82Maidens Complaint against Coffee, or the Coffee

House Discovered, 54Maid of the Mill, The (Bickerstaffe), 332Maid’s Last Prayer, The (Southerne), 126Maizeaux, Pierre des, 429–30Mandeville, Bernard

The Fable of the Bees, 510, 578and Scottish Englightenment, 441

Manley, Delariviere, 128New Atalantis, 91, 96Secret History of Queen Zarah and the

Zarazians, 373, 471manners, history of, 380–3Manners: A Satyr, 190Man of Failing, The, 601Man of Feeling, The (Mackenzie), 598–9, 600Man of Mode, The (Etherege), 125–6Man of Sensibility, The (Scott), 760Man of Taste, The (Miller), 319Man of the World, The (Mackenzie), 588,

599–601Man of the World, The (Macklin), 326manuscripts, 56–60

production and circulation of, 16sale of, 33–4as vehicle for poetry, 164, 165

Marlborough, Duke of, 184Marriage a-la-Mode (Dryden), 115, 122, 123Married Libertine, The (Macklin), 326Married Philosopher, The (Kelly), 319Martin, Benjamin, 413

The Universal Grammar, 396Young Gentleman and Ladies Philosophy, 413

Marvell, Andrewand Restoration literature, 38, 153worksHoratian Ode, 154Last Instructions to a Painter, 170Upon Appleton House, 154, 279writing style, 166

Mary, Queen of Scots, 376Mary of Modena, 47–8Mary; or, The Wrongs of Woman

(Wollstonecraft), 574masques, 121Massacre of Paris, The (Lee), 115, 116–17Massinger, Philip, 119Master of the Revels, 109Masters, Mary, 176

Marinda poems by, 230publication of poems by, 211satires by, 228

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Match at Football, The (Concannen), 195Mathison, Thomas, 195Maturin, Charles, 685–6Mauduit, Israel, 563May Day (Arne), 332Mayer, Robert, 377Medal, The; A Satyr against Sedition (Dryden),

190Medall, The, 138Meditations and Contemplations (Hervey), 467Melmoth, Courtney, 689Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin), 685–6Memoir on the Appearance of Spectres or

Phantoms Occasioned by Disease(Nicolai), 694

memoirs, 369Memoirs of a Magdalen (Kelly), 590Memoirs of Sidney Bidulph (Sheridan), 761Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and

Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus (Pope,Swift, Arbuthnot et al.), 50–1, 253

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson(Hutchinson), 369

Men of Letters and the English Public in theEighteenth Century (Beljame), 43

Mercenary Lover, The (Haywood), 420–1Merlimus Liberatus (Partridge), 71Mersenne, Marin, 430metaphysics, 409mezzotint, 28–9Mickle, William Julius, 511Midas (O’Hara), 331Milbourne, Luke, 177Millenium Hall (Scott), 759–60Miller, James

The Art of Life, 196The Man of Taste, 319

Milton, John, 171–2friends of, 38worksComus, 330History of Britain, 366L’Allegro ed il Penseroso, 435Ludlow Masque, 261Lycidas, 261Paradise Lost, 34, 253, 261, 466–7, 684, 691

Minor, The (Foote), 325Minstrel, The; or, The Progress of Genius

(Beattie), 304–5, 348, 351–2minute philosophy, 392miscellanies, 169–71, 174–7Miscellanies (Pope and Swift), 40Miscellanies (Tonson), 263

Miscellany (Lintot), 171Miscellany Poems (Finch), 41, 225Miss Melmoth: or, The New Clarissa (Briscoe),

586Mock Doctor, The (Henry Fielding), 80, 130Mock-Tempest, The (Duffet), 130Modern Husband, The (Henry Fielding), 319–20Modern Patriot, The (Cowper), 297Modest Proposal, A (Swift), 241–2, 558Monk, The (Lewis), 685, 692Montagu, Elizabeth, 489Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

on Gothic literature, 684pastoral poetry by, 269personal letters, 631–5publication of poems by, 211travel narratives, 715–18worksEssay on the Writings and Genius of

Shakespear, 489Town Eclogues, 179, 269–70as writer-poet, 175writing style of, 212, 213

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat,Baron de, 429, 442–3

Moore, Edward, 328Moore, Francis, 71Moral Essays (Pope), 188Moral Satires (Cowper), 297More, Hannah

education of, 219publication of poems by, 211, 213worksCheap Repository of Moral and Religious

Tracts, 66, 67Sensibility, 574–5

More Priestcraft (Ward), 190Morning Dream, The (Cowper), 297–8Mourning Bride, The (Congreve), 119Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 436Muralt, Beat de, 442Murphy, Arthur, 328Murry, Ann, 214musicals, 120–1music in poetry, 203Mysteries of Udolpho (Radcliffe), 685, 692, 697

narrative histories, 366–8in mid eighteenth century, 368rearrangement or break-up in, 379–80

national history, 382–3natural philosophy, 396, 407–8Natural Religion (Wilkins), 450–1

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Natural Theology (Paley), 397Nature and Origin of Mental Derangement

(Crichton), 694Nature and Society (Feingold), 504Necromancer, The; or Harlequin Dr Faustus

(Rich), 318Negro’s Complaint, The (Cowper), 297–8Nemoianu, Virgil, 805neoclassicism, 178–9, 412Nereides: or Sea-Eclogues (Diaper), 271–2Nero (Lee), 112, 115New Arcadia (Sidney), 233New Atalantis (Manley), 91, 96Newbery, JohnNew Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse

(Lonsdale), 806–7New Collections of Poems on Several Occasions

(Gildon), 210news-pamphlets, 653newspaper publishing, 30–1Newton, Isaac, 431–2Newton, John

autobiography, 465–6Olney Hymns, 470

Newtonianism, 439Newtonianismo per le dame (Algarotti), 415New Version of the Psalms of David, A (Tate and

Brady), 469New Voyage round the World, A (Dampier), 731Nicolai, Cristoph Friedrich, 694Nicoll, Allardyce, 317Night (Churchill), 294Night Thoughts (Young), 34, 300, 301–2, 467Nine Living Muses of Great Britain, The

(Samuel), 367Nine Muses, The. Or, Poems Written by Nine

several Ladies upon the Death of the lateFamous John Dryden, 170

Nocturnal Reverie (Finch), 212nonconformists, 446, 456–7Non-Juror, The (Cibber), 323Noon-Piece; or, The Mowers at Dinner (Smart),

274Norris, John, 174, 529Northanger Abbey (Austen), 673, 745North Briton, The (Wilkes), 563–4Norton Anthology, 801–2novelists, women. See women novelistsnovels, 87–105

of amorous intrigue, 87–95anti-novel discourse in early eighteenth

century, 96emergence in eighteenth century, 104

female readers of, 97–8feminism in, 92–4formula fiction, 91–2, 94–5and historical writings, 377–8improvement of, 98–100as literary form, 104–5philosophy in, 410–11, 419–20publication of, 26–7reading of, 95–8

Nugent, Robert, 196

Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser(Warton), 489, 619

Observations upon the United Provinces of theNetherlands (Temple), 430

Occasionalism, 170octosyllabic couplets, 166Ode for St Cecilia’s Day (Dryden), 435Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands

of Scotland (Collins), 312odes, 199–200, 309–10, 467–8Odes on Various Subjects (Warton), 309–10, 617,

618–19Ode to Spring (Barbauld), 314Odyssey, The (Homer), 35, 201Oeconomy of Love, The (Armstrong), 282–3Oedipus (Dryden and Lee), 139Of Desire. An Epistle to Honorable Miss Lovelace

( Jones), 291Of Dramatic Poesie (Dryden), 111, 425Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion

(Wilkins), 450–1Ogilby, John, 721O’Hara, Kane, 331O’Keefe, John

The Castle of Andalusia, 333The Farmer, 333The Poor Soldier, 333

Old Batchelour, The (Congreve), 127Oldenburg, Henry, 432Old English Baron, The (Reeve), 495, 765Oldham, John, 176Oldmixon, John, 175

Critical History of England, 384propaganda by, 557

Old Mortality (Scott), 374Old Woman’s Oratory (Smart), 84Olney Hymns (Newton and Cowper), 470On Conciliation with the Colonies (Burke), 522On Leaving Holland (Akenside), 310On Lyric Poetry (Akenside), 310On the Esthetic Education of Mankind (Schiller),

444

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On the Sublime (Longinus), 427, 774opera buffa, 331, 332operas, 329–33, 433–6opera seria, 331Opie, Amelia, 214, 234Oracles of Empire (Shields), 504orations, 83–4Oroonoko: Or the Royal Slave (Behn), 91, 119,

576, 594, 741–2Orphan, The (Otway), 117Orphan of China, The (Murphy), 328Orpheus Caledonius (Thomson), 356Osborne, Thomas, 21Ossianic poetry, 603–5Otway, Thomas, 117, 122

Alcibiades, 117The Atheist, 122Don Carlos, 117Epsom-Wells, 122Friendship in Fashion, 122The History and Fall of Casius Marius, 117The Orphan, 117The Souldier’s Fortune, 122A True Widow, 122Venice Preserved, 117The Virtuoso, 122

Ovids Epistles, 41Oxford History of English Literature, The (Butt),

800

Padlock, The (Dibdin), 332Paine, Thomas

Common Sense, 517, 784Rights of Man, 553, 569–70, 784

Paley, William, 397Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (Richardson), 100–5

and development of sentimental fiction,751–2

disguise scene in, 101moral issues in, 69–70moral philosophy in, 401as a novel of amorous intrigue, 100–1origin of, 635plot of, 100in print market, 101–2responses to, 102success in elevation of novel reading, 103–4

Pamela Censured, 102pamphlets, influence on public opinion, 552–3panegyrics, 184–5, 203pantomimes, 80–3, 318paper production, 27Paradise Lost (Milton), 34, 253, 261, 466–7, 691

Parliamentary Union of 1707, 353Parnell, Thomas, 176, 259Partiarcha (Filmer), 142Partridge, Eric, 803Partridge, John, 71Pasquin (Henry Fielding), 131, 320pasticcio, 331Pastoral Ballad (Shenstone), 274Pastoral Dialogue (Swift), 270–1pastoral poetry, 166

anti- or mock pastorals, 267–8development of, 261French theory on, 261–2Golden Age theory on, 266–7, 274ironies of, 284–6landscapes in, 274limitation of place, time and action in, 269persistence of, 259–60singing shepherd in, 273–4

Pastorals (Pope), 57, 179, 263–4patent theatres, 320Patriot, The ( Johnson), 567patriot drama, 319patronage, 203patrons, 41Payne, Henry Nevile, 114Peep Behind the Curtain, A (Garrick), 331Pellison-Fontanier, Paul, 431Penhurst, To ( Jonson), 279pentameter couplets, 166, 167Pepys, Samuel, 655–6, 672Perceval, John, 552Percy, Thomas

correspondences, 615–16interest in old ballads and Chinese

literature, 496on old English ballads, 613–15Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 613–15

Peri Bathous (Pope), 51periodical essays (eighteenth century), 527–48

from The Athenian Mercury to The Tatler,529–35

autobiographical writing in, 653brief history, 527characteristics of, 528end of the genre, 544–8and periodical publication, 527–8readers of, 528from The Spectator to The Rambler, 535–44

periodicals, publication of, 527Perrault, Charles, 433Perseus and Andromeda (Rich), 318Persian Eclogues (Collins), 272–3

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Persistence of Empire, The (Gould), 519personal letters, 625–48

acts of writing in, 626authors of, 626–7

Alexander Pope, 627–30Hester Thrale Piozzi, 643–6Horace Walpole, 639–43Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 631–5Philip Dormer Stanhope, 635–9Samuel Johnson, 628William Cowper, 646–8

diversity of subjects and styles in, 626liminalities and paradoxes of, 625–6of women in eighteenth century, 631

Phelps, William Lyons, 803Philips, Ambrose, 264–5, 540Philips, John

Bleinheim, 184Cyder, 49, 278–9epitaphs, 49

Philips, Katherineaccessibility of poetry by, 56, 165poems by, 47by profession, 174

Philosophical Dictionary (Voltaire), 438Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our

Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, A(Burke), 487

Philosophical Transactions (Keill), 432philosophy and literature, 391–422

design argument in, 396–7disciplinary distinctions in, 393–4divisions of philosophy, 395–412empiricism in, 392–3novels in, 410problem of popular philosophy, 412–22vs. rhetorics, 394–5women in, 414–15

Philosophy of Rhetoric, The (Campbell), 392,773–4, 780

Piety in Patterns (Foote), 325Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan), 458, 459, 461Pilkington, Laetitia, 211, 220Pindar, 200Pinkerton, John, 382, 611Pinkethman’s Jests, 65Piozzi, Hester Thrale, 643–6, 718–19piracies, 24–5Pity for Poor Africans (Cowper), 298Pix, Mary, 128

The Beau Defeated, 129Pizarro (Sheridan), 338Plain Dealer, The (Wycherley), 124–5, 225

Plaine Mans Path-way to Heaven, The (Dent),457

Plan of the English Commerce, A (Defoe), 504Playhouse, The (Gould), 190Playhouse to be Let, The (D’Avenant), 130Plays of William Shakespeare ( Johnson), 490playwrights, 111–12, 338Pleasures of Imagination, The (Addison),

405–6Pleasures of Imagination, The (Akenside),

302–3Pocock, J. G. A., 511Pococke, Richard, 736–7poems

miscellanies, 169–71and music, 203standards for rhythm and rhyme in, 203varieties and forms, 167–9

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Burns),345

Poems and Songs (Flatman), 203Poems by Eminent Ladies, 211Poems on Affairs of State, 41, 170Poems on Several Occasions (Leapor), 168, 292Poems on Several Occasions (Rowe), 213poetry, 165–6

accessibility across social and economicgroups, 163

access to, 162manuscripts, 164, 165miscellanies, 169–71theatre, 164–5

after death of Alexander Pope, 287–315didactic/discursive poetry, 299–309lyric poetry, 309–15satiric poetry, 290–9

and arts, 203and canon of the period, 163–4collections of, 171–2Gothic influence, 684–5popular subjects of, 160–1publishing and marketing of, 161–2readership, 163from Restoration to death of Alexander

Pope, 160–208access to poetry, 164–72changes and trends, 202–8didactic and satirical poetry, 187–96epic, 200–2genres, 177–83lyrics, 197–200poetic identities and careers, 172–7public and political poetry, 183–7

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poetry (cont.)and Romanticism, 160roots of, 488–9Scottish. See Scottish poetryurban themes in, 204

poets, 174–7anonymity of, 173–4attributions, 173–4collections, 171–2demographics of, 202identity of, 172–3offhand and occasional, 175–6by profession, 174of special public occasions, 176–7women poets, 209–34

in eighteenth century, 210–14collections of poems by, 210domestic situations of, 214–22education of, 218fables by, 228identity of, 221–2Jonathan Swift’s influence on, 216life and literary styles of, 213number of publications by, 209reasons for writing poems by, 222–4satires by, 188–9in Scotland, 357–8significance of, 231–4sonnets by, 231–4

writers as, 174–5Political Justice, 196political pamphlets, 549–71

articulation of arguments in, 552characteristics of, 550–1constitutional issues in, 553by John Wilkes, 562–7in opposition to Robert Walpole, 559–62and political parties, 553, 558on Revolution of 1688, 567–71

political parties, 549–50political poetry, 183–7, 290political prose, 768–93

accessibility of, 783eloquence and literary expression, 785–93eloquence and oratory, 779–85eloquence of, 769–79literary criticism of, 780–2

political satires, 191–2, 320Polly Peachum’s Jests, 65Pomfret, John, 176, 196Poor Man’s Family Book (Baxter), 456, 457Poor Soldier, The (O’Keefe), 333Poor Vulcan (Dibdin), 331

Pope, Alexanderaccessibility of poetry by, 162–3, 165childhood of, 207–8on couplets, 300dominance of, 205epistles, 39influence on other poets, 287inner circle of, 208on literary criticism, 483–5manuscripts, 57–60miscellanies, 171pastorals by, 263–4, 268personal letters, 627–30on political poetry, 185portrait of, 288spoof essay by, 266subscription publishing by, 35worksThe Dunciad, 73, 77, 189, 250Dunciad Variorum, 40, 51Epistle to Augustus, 191Epistle to Bathurst, 503Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 192, 220, 223An Essay on Criticism, 483–5An Essay on Man, 196Imitations of Horace, 188Miscellanies, 40Moral Essays, 188Pastorals, 57, 179, 263–4Peri Bathous, 51The Rape of the Lock, 41, 59–60, 188, 190Works, 57writing of heroic couplets by, 222

popular culture, 63popular entertainment, 61

advice and conduct books, 69–70almanacs, 70–1broadsides, 70–5chapbooks, 63–8farces, 79–80orations, 83–4pantomimes, 80–3

Portrait, The (Arnold), 331Posthumous Memoirs (Wraxall), 790Power of Destiny, The (Darwall), 220Practice of Christian Graces, 456Practice of Pietie (Bayly), 455Praelectiones de Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum

(Lowth), 467, 605Praelectiones Poeticae (Trapp), 472Prefaces to the English Poets ( Johnson), 492–3Prince Arthur (Blackmore), 202print culture, 55–6

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printers, 19–20Printing Acts, 14print market, 101–2prints, 85–6Prior, Matthew, 174

Alma, or the Progress of the Mind, 205An Epitaph, 180, 182Henry and Emmas, 205poems by, 205

Prison-Breaker, The; or, the Adventures of JohnSheppard, 75

Profession of English Letters, The (Saunders), 43Progress of Romance, The (Reeve), 87, 96–7, 381,

495prologues, 39–40, 111, 164, 165Prometheus Unbound (Shelley), 299Prophecy of Famine, The (Churchill), 293Prophetess, The (Fletcher), 120prospect poem, 279Protestant Christiniaty, Post-Reformation,

396Provok’d Husband, The (Vanbrugh and

Cibber), 127, 323Provoked Wife, The (Vanbrugh), 126Psalms of David imitated in the Language of New

Testament, The (Watts), 468Psyche Debauch’d (Duffet), 130Psyche (Shadwell), 120public poetry, 183–7public sphere, 52–5, 185, 549publishers, 19publishing and bookselling, 13–36

capital requirements, 29–30commercial advertising, 31commodification of literature in, 36copies per book editions, 31–2credit terms, 33dominance of London in, 25–6growth of, 15–16newspaper publishing, 30–1novels, 26–7printed publication growth rates, 16–17Printing Acts, 14protectionism in, 15religious works, 17reprinting rights, 23, 24and Restoration government, 13retailing, 18specialisms of different districts in, 26subscription publishing, 34–5technological innovations, 15trade discounts, 32–3

Purcell, Henry, 434

Purney, Thomas, 271Puttenham, George, 472

Quaker’s Opera, The; or, The Escapes of JackSheppard (Walker), 75

Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns,427, 482–5

Queen Anne, death of, 247

Racine, Berenice, 117Radcliffe, Ann, 676

Gothic novels by, 694Mysteries of Udolpho, 685, 692, 697

Rambler The, 541–3Ramsay, Allan

The Evergreen, 354–5, 612verse correspondence with Alexander

Hamilton, 343–4Rape of Proserpine, The (Rich), 318Rape of the Lock, The (Pope), 41, 59–60, 188, 190Rapin, Rene, 425

Dissertatio de Carmine Pastorali, 261Reflexions sur la poetique d’Aristote, 425

Rapin-Thoyras, Paul de, 366Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia ( Johnson), 395,

441–2, 609Ravenscroft, Edward, 123Ray, John, 397, 402Reasonableness of Christianity, The (Locke), 452Reason (Pomfret), 196Recess, The (Lee), 765Recruiting Officer, The (Farquhar), 127Reeve, Clara

Gothic novel by, 765historical writing, 381novel of amorous intrigue by, 87, 96, 495poems by, 213on women writers, 222worksThe Old English Baron, 495, 765The Progress of Romance, 87, 96–7, 381, 495

Reflections on Marriage (Astell), 415Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke),

551–2, 567–9, 785, 786–7Reflexions critiques (Boileau), 427Reflexions sur la poetique d’Aristote (Rapin), 425Reformation of Manners (Defoe), 188reform comedies, 323Rehearsal, The (Buckingham), 40

direction of, 111mimicry of John Dryden’s mannerisms in,

149–50writers of, 45

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Index

Relapse, The (Vanbrugh), 126Religio Laici (Dryden), 138, 143–4, 206Religion the Only Happiness, 196religious literature, 445–70

categories, 449–50Christian experience, 460–6Christian songs, 466–70defence and definition of religion, 450–3devotional literature, 455guides of Christian life, 454–60publication of, 17, 66–7religious spectrum, 445–50sermons, 454theological and philosophical issues,

448–9Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Percy),

613–15Reliquiae Baxterianae (Baxter), 462reprinting rights, 15, 23Restoration theatre, 109–31

actors in, 121–31buildings and sceneries, 109–10comedies, 121–31heroic play and baroque tragedy, 112–20ideological conflicts in, 113–14musicals, 120–1pace of playing in, 110playwrights, 111–12women dramatists, 128women in, 109, 110

Retaliation (Goldsmith), 293retirement poems, 230–1Review, The (Defoe), 531–2, 555Revolution of 1688, 567–71Rey, Marc-Michel, 430rhymes, 165Rich, John, 81, 320

Apollo and Daphne, 318Necromancer, The; or Harlequin Dr Faustus,

318Perseus and Andromeda, 318The Rape of Proserpine, 318

Richardson, Samuel, 87, 582–6Clarissa, 704–5Collection of the Moral and Instructive

Sentiments, 583Familiar Letters, 69–70Pamela, 635, 751–2Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, 69–70, 100–2,

103–4, 105, 401, 635, 751–2Sir Charles Grandison, 482, 582–6

Richelieu, Armand Jean, 425Rights of Man (Paine), 553, 569–70, 784

Rinaldo (Handel), 434Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, The

(Doddridge), 460Rise of the Novel, The (Watt), 87Rival Ladies, The (Dryden), 424Rival Queens, The (Lee), 115–16Rivals, The (Sheridan), 326Rival Wives, The, 191Road to Ruin, The (Holcroft), 327Robertson, William, 387

Historical Disquisition on India, 367The History of America, 383, 496History of Scotland, 366, 376, 383, 496History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V,

380, 383, 496Robinson, George, 23Robinson, Mary, 213, 233Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 650–1, 742–3Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of

court poets of, 45–6pastorals by, 40Satyr against Reason and Mankind, 188

Roman Catholics, 447Roman Father, The (Whitehead), 328Romantic poetry, 160Rorty, Richard, 400Rosciad, The (Churchill), 293Ross, William, 356Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 443Routledge History of Literature in English, The,

818Rover, The (Behn), 123, 128Rowe, Elizabeth Singer

poems by, 176, 212–13publication of poems by, 210worksHistory of Joseph, 201Poems on Several Occasions, 213

Rowe, Nicholas, 119The Fair Penitent, 119, 319Jane Shore, 119

Roxana (Defoe), 99–100Royal Society, 432Ruins of Rome (Dyer), 515–16Rule, Britania (Thomson), 298Rural Sports (Gay), 194Rymer, Thomas, 476–8

A Short View of Tragedy, 426, 477The Tragedies of the Last Age Considered,

476–7

Sacred Theory of the Earth, The (Burnet),399–400

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Saint-Evremond, Charles, 428comparison with Voltaire, 429and Enlightenment, 429–30exile to England, 428favourite authors, 429on operas, 433philosophy of, 428–9Sir Politick Would-Be, 429

Sanderson, Robert, 463Santa Maria; or the Mysterious Pregnancy (Fox),

677Sappho and Phaon (Robinson), 233satires, 188

after death of Alexander Pope,290–9

contemporary habits and manners in,189–90

decline of, 204defences of, 192as opposite of panegyrics, 184–5pentameter couplets in, 166political, 191–2, 320social, 192–3

satiric comedies, 323Saturday Club, 50Satyr against Reason and Mankind, A

(Rochester), 188Satyr against the French, A, 190Satyr against Wit (Blackmore), 188Satyr against Wooing, A (Gould), 190Sault, Richard, 529Saunders, James, 43Savage, Mary, 214Schaw, Janet, 733–4Schiller, Friedrich, 444School for Lovers, The (Whitehead), 326School for Scandal, The (Sheridan), 324, 326,

332Scotland

literacy rates in, 162paper production, 27political issue of nationhood, 352union with England, 352–3

Scots Musical Museum, The, 356Scott, Geoffrey, 675–6, 677Scott, Mary, 211Scott, Sarah, 593

Millenium Hall, 759–60Sir George Ellison, 593

Scott, Thomas, 466Scott, Sir Walter, 374Scottish literature and the Scottish people,

350

Scottish poetry, 340See also poetryballads, 355–6effect of union with England, 352–3issue of nationhood in, 352language, 347–8, 350–1poets of eighteenth century, 356regional culture in, 359reprint of older poetry, 355–6songs, 356–8women poets, 357–8

Scriblerians, 249–50Scriblerus Club, 50–1Seasons, The (Thomson), 167, 195, 276, 281–2,

788Secret History of Queen Zarah and the Zarazians,

The (Manley), 373, 471Secret Love (Dryden), 114, 122Secular Masque, The (Dryden), 206Select Society, 350Sensibility (More), 574–5sentimental comedies, 317, 323, 324Sentimental Deceiver, The, 573sentimental fiction, 572–601

See also novelsin 1780s, 573–4benevolence in, 586–94by Laurence Sterne, 594–8Restoration and eighteenth-century

divinity in, 577by Samuel Richardson, 582–6self-gratification in, 587–8sensibility in, 598–601sympathy and moral sense in, 576–82

Sentimental History of Chimney Sweepers, A(Hanway), 590

Sentimental Journey, A (Sterne), 596–8, 707Sentimental Magazine, 573Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, A (Law),

459serious comedies, 327Serious Proposal to the Ladies, A (Astell), 94sermons, 454Settle, Elkanah

The Empress of Morocco, 118, 130The Female Prelate, 118The Siege of Troy, 76St George for England, 76

Seven Years War (1756–63), 563Seward, Anna, 211

education of, 219prominence in 1790s, 214sonnets by, 233

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Shadwell, Thomas, 123The False Count, 129Psyche, 120The Sullen Lovers, 123

Shaftesbury, rd Earl of (Cooper), 404Shakespeare, William, 329, 489–92, 683–4Shamela (Henry Fielding), 102Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 299Shenstone, William

Colemira: A Culinary Eclogue, 195Pastoral Ballad, 274pastoral eclogues, 273use of analogies by, 615

Shepherd’s Week, The (Gay), 267Sheppard, Jack, 74–5Sheridan, Frances, 586, 760–1Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 326

The Critic, 85, 326as manager of Drury Lane Theatre, 337–8Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, 761The Rivals, 326The School for Scandal, 324, 326, 332speeches, 782–3on Warren Hastings, 783

Sheridan and Linley, 332–3She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith), 324, 326Shields, David, 504Short Account of God’s Dealings with the

Reverend Mr George Whitefield(Wesley), 464

Shortest-Way with the Dissenters, The (Defoe),554

Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness ofthe English Stage, A (Collier), 478

Short View of Tragedy, A (Rymer), 426, 477Shunamite, The (Duck), 347Sidney, Philip, 472

Apology for Poetrie, 472Sidney Bidulph (Sheridan), 586Siecle de Louis XIV (Voltaire), 433Siege of Belgrade, The (Storace-Cobb), 333Siege of Constantinople, The (Payne), 114Siege of Rhodes, The (Davenant), 424Siege of Troy, The (Settle), 76signboards, 85Sinews of Power, The (Brewer), 507Sir Charles Grandison (Richardson), 482, 582–6Sir George Ellison (Scott), 593Sir Politick Would-Be (Saint-Evremond), 429Sketches of the History of Man (Kames), 380Smart, Christopher

children’s literature by, 68Georgics by, 275–6

hymn books by, 469odes by, 313parodies by, 84pastorals by, 274worksThe Hop-Garden, 275Old Woman’s Oratory, 84A Song to David, 313, 469A Translation of the Psalms of David, 469

Smellie, William, 350Smith, Adam, 579–80

The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 579–80The Wealth of Nations, 397, 504

Smith, Charlotte, 211, 213domestic life of, 215Elegiac Sonnets and Other Essays, 224, 231, 315Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, 233, 765fables by, 228Gothic novel by, 765sonnets by, 224, 231–3

Smith, Edmund, 176Smith, John Harrington, 123Smith, Marshall, 184Smollett, Tobias

Compleat History of England, 366, 376Humphry Clinker, 601Travels through France and Italy, 709writing style, 581

Social Contract (Rousseau), 443social readings, 41–2social satires, 192–3Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

(SPCK), 456Solomon on the Vanity of the World (Cowley),

201Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the

Honourable Col. James Gardiner(Doddridge), 465

songbooks, 65Songs and other Poems (Brome), 203Song to David, A (Smart), 313, 469Sonnet on the Death of Richard West (Gray), 289sonnets, 231–4, 314–15Sonnets, Written Chiefly on Picturesque Spots

(Bowles), 315Sons of Ben, 44Sophonisba (Lee), 115, 319Sorbiere, Samuel, 430–1Souldier’s Fortune, The (Otway), 122Southerne, Thomas, 126

The Fatal Marriage, 119, 319The Fate of Capua, 120The Maid’s Last Prayer, 126

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The Spartan Dame, 120The Wives’ Excuse, 126, 128

Southwark Fair (Hogarth), 76, 78Spartan Dame, The (Southerne), 120SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian

Knowledge), 456Specimens of British Poetesses (Dyce), 212Spectator, The, 54–5, 537–40, 653Speech on American Taxation (Burke), 777Spencer, Georgia, 589Spender, Dale, 806Spenser, Edmund, 261Spleen, The (Finch), 210Sprat, Thomas, 44

Account of the Life and Writings of Cowley,431

History of the Royal Society, 431, 652–3response to Sorbiere, 431

Stage Coach, The (Farquhar), 79, 323Stamp Act of 1712, 533stanzas, 165State of Innocence, The (Dryden), 115Stationers’ Company, 13, 14Steele, Richard

The Conscious Lovers, 128, 320, 323, 394on literary criticism, 481in Spectator, 539–40Whig propaganda by, 557

Sterne, Laurence, 594–8travel narratives, 708worksA Sentimental Journey, 816Tristram Shandy, 254, 295, 576, 594–5

St George for England (Settle), 76stipple, 28Storace, Stephen, 333Stowe, The Gardens (West), 195Strahan, William, 21Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

(Habermas), 52–3Strutt, Joseph, 381Stubbes, George, 392, 397, 410Sturrock, John, 659Sublime and the Beautiful, The (Burke), 813subscription publishing, 34–5Sugar-Cane, The: A Poem (Grainger), 275, 281,

504, 520–1Sullen Lovers, The (Shadwell), 123Summers, Montague, 122Summum Bonum, The; or Wisest Philosophy

(Welsted), 196Surveyor of the Press, 109Suspicious Husband, The (Hoadly), 324

Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce (Cowper), 298Swieten, Baron Gottfried van, 436Swift, Jonathan

on Alexander Pope, 628animosity towards John Dryden, 157–8on beliefs and supernatural, 240four-stress couplets by, 166on ignorance about Ireland, 726influence on women poets, 216inner circle of, 249on literary criticism, 483pastoral poetry by, 270–1on people who write low-life memoirs,

251–2political pamphlets by, 555–8portrait of, 236on religion, 239–40resistance to new trends, 235short verses by, 169strategies and themes, 237–8systems satires, 235–58

perspective with his friends, 247–53satiric practitioner, 241–6satiric vision, 235–41Scriblerians, 253–6

travel narratives, 743–4worksThe Battle of the Books, 237, 403The Bickerstaff Papers, 71Conduct of the Allies, 254, 550, 551, 556–7Description of the Morning, 270The Drapier’s Letters, 245, 558Gulliver’s Travels, 34, 51, 248, 253, 254–8,

743–4History of the Four Last Years of Queen Anne,

254The Lady’s Dressing Room, 271Miscellanies, 40A Modest Proposal, 241–2, 558Pastoral Dialogue, 270–1A Tale of a Tub, 187, 238, 240, 252, 483Thoughts on Various Subjects, 237–8, 239, 240,

243Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind,

253Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, 242–6

Sylvae (Dryden and Tonson), 41, 151systems satire, 250–1

Table-Talk (Cowper), 298Tale of a Tub, A (Swift), 187, 238, 240, 252,

483Tales and Quicke Answers, 65

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Task, The (Cowper), 285as one of best-selling poems of eighteenth

century, 467primitivism in, 603satire in, 298subject of, 307–9

Tasso, Torquato, 213Tate, Nahum, 469Tatler, The, 533–5, 536–7, 653Taxation No Tyranny ( Johnson), 498–9, 501, 567Taylor, Jeremy, 455–6Tea-Table Miscellany, The (Ramsay), 356Teft, Elizabeth, 220Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 329Temple, The (Herbert), 17, 468Temple, William, 175

on decline of Holland, 430historical writing, 368on Quarrel of the Ancients and the

Moderns, 48, 427on six recurrent motives for poetry, 299worksAncient and Modern Learning, 48Observations upon the United Provinces of the

Netherlands, 430ten-syllable couplets, 166tetrameter couplets, 166theatre (mid and late eighteenth century),

316–39in 1730s, 318–21access to poetry in, 164–5Age of Garrick, 333–7

acting styles in, 335changeable sceneries in, 335–6

analytical history of, 317audience, 336–7censorship, 317, 321–2comedies and tragedies, 323–8competition in, 318criticisms of, 329–30impact of Licensing Act, 321–2monopoly and commercialism, 337–9musical dramas, 329–33

ballad operas, 330burlettas, 330–1comic operas, 331–2English operas, 332–3

playwrights, 338theatre verse, 225Themistocles (Madden), 319Theobald, Lewis, 490Theocritus, 261Theodosius (Lee), 116

Theory of Moral Sentiments, The (Smith), 579–80Thomas, Elizabeth, 176Thomaso (Killigrew), 128Thompson, Isaac, 274Thomson, Derrick, 607Thomson, James

The Castle of Indolence, 348Liberty, 196, 501, 681Orpheus Caledonius, 356Rule, Britania, 298The Seasons, 167, 195, 276, 281–2, 788

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents(Burke), 776, 777

Thoughts on the late Transactions respectingFalkland’s Islands ( Johnson), 567

Thoughts on the National Debt ( Jenyns), 508–10Thoughts on Various Subjects (Swift), 237–8, 239,

240, 243Thoughts upon the Four Last Things: Death;

Heaven; Judgment; Hell (Trapp), 196Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

(Berkeley), 401–2Three Essays (Gilpin), 495Three Hours After Marriage (Gay, Pope,

Arbuthot), 50Thresher’s Labour, The (Duck), 274, 277Thurmond, 75Thurston, Joseph, 196Tickell, Thomas, 176, 197, 265–6Tillotson, John

as Archbishop of Canterbury, 447sermons, 450writing style, 454

Timber ( Jonson), 155Times, The, 293Timoleon, 319title pages, 172, 173Todd, Janet, 806Todorov, Tzvetan, 695–6Toleration Act of 1689, 446Tollet, Elizabeth

education of, 219poems by, 211publication of poems by, 211

Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)eloquence in, 769historical writing in, 374novel writers in, 95number of copies printed, 32payment received by Fielding for, 34sentimentalism in, 592

Tompkins, J. M. S., 676Tom Thumb (Henry Fielding), 320, 331

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Tonson, Jacobcollaboration with John Dryden, 41, 153success as bookseller, 21worksMiscellanies, 263Sylvae, 41, 151Tonson Miscellanies, 171

Tonson Miscellanies (Tonson), 171Tour in Ireland, A (Young), 727–8Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain, A

(Defoe), 723–5Town Eclogues (Montagu), 179, 269–70trade discounts, 32–3tragedies, 319, 328Tragedies of the Last Age Considered, The

(Rymer), 476–7Traite du poeme epique (Le Bossu), 426translatio imperii, 516

in American colonies, 517–18in Augustan writings, 516–17and liberty, 517

Translation of the Psalms of David, A (Smart),469

transparencies, 82–3Trapp, Joseph, 174

Lectures on Poetry, 179, 472Praelectiones Poeticae, 472Thoughts upon the Four Last Things: Death;

Heaven; Judgment; Hell, 196Traveller, The (Goldsmith), 305travel literature in eighteenth century, 707–44

British Isles and Ireland, 720–8European travel, 710–14global travel, 728–44racial stereotypes in, 731–3women travellers, 714–20

Travels into Several Nations of the World. SeeGulliver’s Travels

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (Bruce),737

Treatise of Human Nature (Hume), 375, 408Trenchard, John, 559–60tributes, 226Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 254, 295, 576,

594–5Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind

(Swift), 253Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London

(Gay), 179, 194Trotter, Catherine, 128True-Born Englishman, The (Defoe), 186, 480,

554True Patriot (Henry Fielding), 540–1

True Widow, A (Otway), 122Tuke, Sir Samuel, 123Tunbridge-Miscellany, The, 170Tutchin, John, 176Tyrannic Love (Dryden), 40, 114Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 495

Unhappy Favourite, The (Banks), 118Union, Act of (1707), 260, 278Universal Beauty (Brooke), 196Universal Gallant, The (Henry Fielding),

319Universal Grammar, The (Martin), 396Universal Register Office, 70Upon Appleton House (Marvell), 154, 279Usefulness of the Stage, The (Dennis), 479Utrecht, Peace of, 184

Valentinian (Fletcher), 120Vanbrugh, John

The Provok’d Husband, 127, 323The Provoked Wife, 126The Relapse, 126

Vanity of Human Wishes, The ( Johnson), 291Venice Preserved (Otway), 117Venus and Adonis, 434Virgilian progression model, 183Verses on the Death of Dr Swift (Swift), 242–6Vico, Giambattista, 429Village, The (Crabbe), 306–7Village Opera, The (Arne), 332Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A, 414, 574,

747Virgil

Georgics, 275, 277–8, 279, 281–2georgics by, 194John Dryden on, 151–2translations, 146–8, 156

Virgin Unmasked, The (Henry Fielding),318–19

Virtue, Commerce, and History (Pocock),511

Virtuoso, The (Otway), 122Virtuous Orphan, The (Collyer), 576Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet, 436–7

comparison with Charles Saint-Evremond,429

on English literature, 489on English philosophy, 439and Enlightenment, 440–1on freedom of thought, 437–8political activities, 441travel narratives, 439–40

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Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet (cont.)worksCandide, 441–2La Henriade, 436Letters Concerning the English Nation, 436Letters on England, 489

Vox Stellarum (Moore), 71Voyage Round the World (Anson), 729

Walker, John, 463The Fate of Villainy, 319The Quaker’s Opera; or, The Escapes of Jack

Sheppard, 75Waller, Edmund, 171Walpole, Horace

The Castle of Otranto, 495, 673–4, 701,704–5

on comedies, 327Gothic novels by, 674–5, 704–5personal letters, 639–43on tragedies, 328

Walpole, Robertcriticism of, 191Jonathan Swift on, 250opposition to, 248, 499, 559–62

Warburton, William, 490Ward, Ned, 175, 190Warton, Joseph

blank verse poems, 299worksThe Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature,

273Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope,

489Odes on Various Subjects, 309–10

Warton, Thomasblank verses by, 300on English literary history, 493–4on Gothic literature, 688historical writing, 381on history of English poetry, 617–20on opposition to Robert Walpole, 501revisionary poetry by, 489sonnets by, 314worksEssay on Pope, 501Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope,

489Five Pastoral Eclogues, 273History of English Poetry, 381, 617–18Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser,

489, 619Odes on Various Subjects, 617, 618–19

Washing Day (Barbauld), 216Waterland, Daniel, 453Watson, James, 353–4Watt, Ian, 87Watts, Isaac, 176, 468

Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language, forthe Use of Children, 67

Horae Lyricae, 467, 468Hymns, 32Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 468The Psalms of David imitated in the Language

of New Testament, 468Way of the World, The (Congreve), 127, 337Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 397, 504Webster, John, 118Wedlock. A Satyr (Wright), 190Welsh Opera, The (Henry Fielding), 130, 320Welsted, Leonard, 196Werter (Goethe), 233Wesley, Charles, 468, 469Wesley, John, 464

publication of autobiographies,464–5

publication of religious writings,458–9

worksA Christian Library, 455A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People

called Methodists, 468A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, 468–9

Wesley, Samuel, 176, 529West, Gilbert, 195West Indian, The (Cumberland), 327Wharton, Anne, 47–8Wharton, Thomas, 273What D’Ye Call It, The (Gay), 50, 80Whig interpretation of history, 398Whitaker, John, 382Whitefield, George, 464Whitehead, Paul, 176, 190Whitehead, William, 326, 328Whole Booke of Psalmes, The (Sternhold,

Hopkins, et al.), 469Whole Duty of Man, The (Allestree), 69, 456Wilberforce, William, 575Wild, Robert, 176Wilkes, John

political campaigns, 768publication of The North Briton, 563–4

Wilkes’ Jest Book; or the Merry Patriot, 66Wilkins, John

on Jewish people, 399role in Royal Society, 432

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worksNatural Religion, 450–1Of the Principles and Duties of Natural

Religion, 450–1Williams, Helen Maria, 213

Julia, 234odes by, 310

Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochesterepigrams, 38Restoration poems, 165

Windsor Forest (Pope), 212Alexander Pope’s political friends in, 59celebration of Peace of Utrecht in, 184, 279Country ideology in, 505Georgic commerce in, 195, 279–80

Wine (Gay), 194Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the

Creation (Ray), 397Wives’ Excuse, The (Southerne), 126, 128Wolley, Hannah, 69

The Compleat Servant-Maid; or The YoungMaiden’s Tutor, 69

The Gentlewoman’s Companion, 69Wollstonecraft, Mary

Mary; or, The Wrongs of Woman, 574travel narratives, 719–20A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 574,

747, 784–5Woman’s Labour, The (Collier), 218–19women dramatists, 128women novelists, 745–67

and access to books, 749–50colonial plots by, 765–6comparison to male authors, 759courtship plots by, 759–63economic status of, 748–9, 750–1empire plots by, 764–7feminist vindications in, 747innovative plots by, 746–7literary authority of, 751–2moral ideology of, 748patronage of, 750revision interest in, 745–6satires by, 752

women poets, 209–34in eighteenth century, 210–14collections of poems by, 210domestic situations of, 214–22education of, 218

fables by, 228identity of, 221–2Jonathan Swift’s influence on, 216life and literary styles of, 213number of publications by, 209reasons for writing poems by, 222–4satires by, 188–9in Scotland, 357–8significance of, 231–4sonnets by, 231–4

Wood, Anthony, 463Woodman, Thomas, 804Woodstock Park (Harison), 195Woolf, Virginia, 687Wordsworth, William

on Thomas Gray’s sonnets, 289, 811–12worksLyrical Ballads, 299Thorn, 814–15

Work and Days (Hesiod), 274, 276Works of Virgil (Dryden), 34–5, 147Works (Pope), 57World, 544–5Wotton, William, 427Wraxall, Nathanial, 790Wrestling ( James), 195Wright, Mehetabel

To An Infant Expiring Second Day of its Birth,216

Wedlock. A Satyr, 190writing, social dimension of, 38–42Wycherley, William

The Country Wife, 124–5The Plain Dealer, 124–5, 225

Wyndham, William, 502Wynne, Edward, 402

Yardley Oak (Cowper), 286Yearsley, Ann, 213Young, Arthur

A Tour in Ireland, 727–8travel narratives, 708

Young, EdwardConjectures on Original Composition, 816Love of Fame, 188Night Thoughts, 34, 300, 301–2, 467

Young Gentleman and Lady’s Philosophy(Martin), 413

Young Secretary’s Guide, The (Hill), 69

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