# means ‘text for purchase’
Textbooks:
# David Fairer, English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century 1700—1789, 2nd edn (Longman, 1993) ISBN-10: 0-582-22777-1 (ISBN-13: 978-0582227774)
ON CANVAS (NB: NOT necessary to purchase): Chapters from John Richetti, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2008)
Primary texts:
Poems in
# David Fairer and Christine Gerrard, eds, Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology, 3rd edn (Oxford: Blackwell, 2014) ISBN-10: 111882475X ISBN-13: 978-1118824757. Titles marked # to be read separately in the specified editions.
Joseph Addison
Spectator essays (nos 1, 2, 3, 10, 69) [PDF]
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
‘Upon the Hurricane’
‘A Nocturnal Rêverie’
‘To the Nightingale’
‘Glass’
‘To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters’
‘The Agreeable’
‘To Mr Pope, in answer to a copy of Verses
Jonathan Swift
‘A Description of the Morning’
‘A Description of the City Shower’
‘The Lady’s Dressing Room’
‘A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed’
Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism
An Epistle to Arbuthnot
John Gay
Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716), Book II
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
‘Saturday. The Smallpox’
‘Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman. After his Condemnation for attempting a Rape’
‘The Lover: A Ballad’
‘An Epistle to Lord Bathurst’
(with Lord Hervey) ‘Verses Address’d to the Imitator of Horace’
‘The Dean’s Provocation for Writing the Lady’s Dressing Room’
Samuel Johnson
‘On the Death of Dr Robert Levet’ (1783)
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)
Oliver Goldsmith
The Deserted Village (1770)
William Cowper
The Task (1785), Book I
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
‘A Summer Evening’s Meditation’
‘To Mr Barbauld’
‘The Rights of Woman’
‘To a little invisible Being who is expected soon to become visible’
Charlotte Smith
Beachy Head
[NB: the poem is not in Fairer and Gerrard. A PDF of the text will be made available on Canvas, and a good edited text is widely available in the Norton Anthology of British Literature, ninth and tenth editions]
Prose fiction:
# Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740), ed. Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakeley (Oxford World Classics)
# Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741), ed. Homer Goldberg Fraiman (Norton Critical Edition)
# Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752), ed. Margaret Dalziel (Oxford World Classics)
# Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1803, published 1818), ed. Susan Fraiman (Norton Critical Edition)
10) XX March: William Cowper, The Task, Book 1
11) XX April: Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head
12) XX April: Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote
13) XX April: Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
14) XX May: Summing up