British Satire, 1785-1840, Volume 1

John Strachan, Steven E Jones

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781138751170
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000712995
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Jewish Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This set offers a representitive collection of the verse satire of the Romantic period, published between the mid-1780s and the mid-1830s. As well as two single-author volumes, from William Gifford and Thomas Moore, there is also a wealth of rare, unedited material.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Frontispiece
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• General Introduction
• Editorial Principles
• Introduction by Nicholas Mason
• Robert Burns ‘The Holy Fair’ (1786)
• Helen Leigh ‘A Specimen of Modern Female Education’ (1788) ‘The Lady and the Doctor; An Anecdote’ (1788)
• William Cowper ‘Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce’ (1788) ‘Pity for the Poor Africans’ (1788)
• Elizabeth Hands ‘A Poem, On the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant Maid’ (1789) ‘A Poem, On the Supposition of the Book Having Been Published and Read’ (1789)
• John Wolcot (‘Peter Pindar’) ‘Song, by Mr. Paine’ (1791) ‘Ode to Burke’ (1792)
• Thomas Spence‘Burke’s Address to the “Swinish Multitude”’ (1793)
• John Thelwall and Daniel Isaac Eaton ‘King Chaunticlere; or, The Fate of Tyranny’ (1793)
• Daniel Isaac Eaton (‘Antitype’) The Pernicious Effects of the Art of Printing Upon Society, Exposed (c. 1793-94)
• Anon. (attrib. to Robert Merry and Joseph Jekyll) ‘Wonderful Exhibition. Signor Gulielmo Pittachio’ (1794) ‘No. II. More Wonderful Wonders!!!’ (1794) ‘Wonderful Exhibition!!! Positively the Last Season of His Performing’ (1795)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge ‘Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: A War Eclogue’ (1798)
• Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne) ‘The Laird o’ Cockpen’ (c. 1798)
• William Blake ‘When Klopstock England Defied’ (c. 1797-1800)
• Mary Robinson ‘The Mistletoe, A Christmas Tale’ (1799) ‘The Confessor, A Sanctified Tale’ (1800)
• William Wordsworth ‘A Poet’s Epitaph’ (1800)
• Anna Dodsworth ‘To Matthew Dodsworth, Esq. On a Noble Captain’s Declaring that his Finger was Broken by a Gate’ (1802) ‘Badinage. On Recovering from a Bad Fit of Sickness at Bath’ (1802)
• George Canning ‘Ambubaiarum Collegia, Pharmocopolae’ (1803)
• Anon., from The Anti-Gallican; or Standard of British Loyalty, Religion and Liberty ‘A Farce in One Act, Called The Invasion of England’ (1804)
• Anon., from The Scourge ‘An Ensorian Essay on Something, Meaning Any Thing, and Proving Nothing’ (1812)
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (1812)
• Charles Lamb ‘The Triumph of the Whale’ (1812)
• Jane Taylor ‘Recreation’ (1816)
• John Keats ‘Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream’ (1817)
• Anon., from The Black Dwarf
• ‘To Belinda’ (1818)
• ‘Rights of Women. Answer to Florio’ (1818)
• ‘An Ode to the Ladies on their Alledged Rights’ (1818)
• ‘A Scene from the New Tragi-Comedy entitled the “Undebauched Royalists”, or, The Reformers Routed’ (1819)
• ‘The Peterloo Man’ (1819)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘Sonnet: England in 1819’ (1819) ‘A New National Anthem’ (1819)
• William Hone ‘Non Mi Ricordo!’ (1820)
• George Gordon, Lord Byron ‘The Irish Avatar’ (1821)
• John Hughes ‘The Magic Lay of the One-Horse Chay’ (1824)
• Horace Smith ‘Specimens of a Patent Pocket Dictionary’ (1824-25)
• Thomas Hood and John Hamilton Reynolds
• ‘Ode to Mr. Graham, The Aeronaut’ (1825)
• ‘An Address to the Very Reverend John Ireland, D.D. Charles Fynes Clinton, LL.D. Thomas Causton, D.D. Howel Holland Edwards, M.A. The Bishop of Exeter. Wm. H. Edward Bentinck, M.A. James Webber, B.D. William Short, D.D. James Tournay, D.D. Andrew Bell, D.D. George Holcombe, D.D. The Dean and Chapter of Westminster’ (1825
• Anon., from The Globe and Traveller ‘Discovery of Another Poet’ (1825)
• Anon. (attrib. Theodore Hook) The March of Intellect: A New Song (1825)
• Robert Seymour From The March of Intellect: Fashionable, Mechanical, Philosophical, Philanthropical, Professional, Political (1829)
• Ebenezer Elliott ‘Song: Child, is thy father dead?’ ‘Burns, from the Dead’ ‘The Jacobin’s Prayer’ (1830)
• W[illiam] T[homas] Moncrieff The March of Intellect, A Comic Poem (1830)
• Anon., from The Prompter ‘A Notabil Ballad of ye Downefall of Kynges’ (1831)
• John Wilson (‘Christopher North’) ‘A New Song, to be Sung by All Loyal and True Subjects’ (1832)
• Maria Abdy ‘My Very Particular Friend’ (1834) ‘A Governess Wanted’ (1838)
• George Cruikshank and Anon.
• ‘The Wonderful Pill’ (1837)
• Charles Dickens ‘The Fine Old English Gentleman. New Version. To be Said or Sung at All Conservative Dinners’ (1841)
• Explanatory Notes