NIVEL AVANZADO: La poesía después de Pope -
James Thomson (1700-1748)
_____. The Seasons. Poem.
1726-30.
_____. Sophonisba. Tragedy.
1730.
_____. Agamemnon. Tragedy.
1738.
_____. The Castle of Indolence.
1748.
_____. Tancred and Sigismunda.
Tragedy. 1745.
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A famous patriotic poem by James Thomson, "Rule, Britannia" —set by Thomas Arne:
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Edward Young (1683-1765)
_____. The Brothers. Tragedy.
_____. The Last Day. Poem.
1713.
_____. Love of Fame, the Universal
Passion. Satirical poems. 1725-8.
_____. The
Complaint: or, Night Thoughts. Poem.
1742-45.
_____. Conjectures on Original
Composition. Essay. 1759.
_____. Poetical Works. 2
vols. 1741. 4 vols. 1757.
—&
other poems from the "Graveyard School":
Thomas Parnell. Night-piece on Death.
1721.
Robert Blair. The Grave. Poem.
1743.
James Hervey. Meditations among the
Tombs. 1746.
Thomas Warton. The Pleasures of
Melancholy. 1747.
Other
minor poets:
John Dyer (1700-1758)
_____. "Grongar Hill." Topographic poem. (From pastoral to pre-Romanticism)
_____. The Ruins of Rome.
1740.
_____. The Fleece. 1757.
Charles Churchill (1731-1764)
_____. The Rosciad.
Satire against actors.
_____. The Prophecy of Famine. Satire
against Scotland.
_____. An Epistle to William Hogarth.
Satire.
_____. The Author. Satire
(vs. Smollett).
Warton,
Joseph. (1722-1800).
_____. The Enthusiast: or the Lover
of Nature. Poem. 1744.
_____. An Essay on the
Writings and Genius of Mr Pope. 2 vols. London,
1756, 1782.
Warton, Thomas (Jr.). (1728-1790).
_____. The Pleasures of Melancholy. 1747.
_____. Observations on the
Fairy Queen of Spenser. 1754.
_____. The History of English
Poetry. 3 vols. 1774, 1778, 1781.
William Collins (1721-1759)
_____. Persian Eclogues. 1742.
_____. "Ode on the Poetical Character."
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173257
_____. Odes on Several Descriptive
and Allegorical Subjects. 1746.
_____. Ode on the Popular
Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland. (unfinished). 1750,
pub. 1788.
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Editors & collectors: Percy and Brooke
Percy, Thomas (Bishop) (1729-1811), ed. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.
1765.
Brooke, Charlotte. (1740-1793), ed. Reliques
of Irish Poetry. 1789.
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