The Poems of Sir George Etherege
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The Poems of Sir George Etherege

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The Poems of Sir George Etherege

About this book

Complete scholarly edition of Etherege's poems, with verification of authorship, explanatory comments, records of early appearances, and textual analyses. Forty poems are included.

Originally published in 1963.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. To a Very Young Lady
  5. To a Lady, Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her
  6. The Forsaken Mistress: A Dialogue Between Phillis and Strephon
  7. To a Lady Who Fled the Sight of Him
  8. Voiture's Urania
  9. The Imperfect Enjoyment
  10. Ephelia to Bajazet
  11. A Song on Basset
  12. Song
  13. To Her Excellence the Marchioness of Newcastle After the Reading of Her Incomparable Poems
  14. A Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the Duke's New Playhouse
  15. To Mr. J . N. On His Translations out of French and Italian
  16. Song
  17. Song
  18. Song
  19. Song
  20. Song
  21. The Divided Heart
  22. Silvia
  23. Song
  24. Song
  25. Song
  26. Song
  27. Song
  28. Song
  29. Song
  30. Song
  31. A Letter From Lord Buckhurst to Mr. George Etherege
  32. Mr. George Etherege
  33. Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst to Mr. Etherege
  34. Mr. Etherege's Answer
  35. A Letter to Lord Middleton
  36. Second Letter to Lord Middleton
  37. Mr. Dryden's Letter to Sir George Etherege
  38. Poems of Doubtful Authorship
  39. Upon Love: In Imitation of Cowley
  40. Song
  41. On a Lady Drinking the Waters
  42. Song
  43. The Rival
  44. Mrs. Nelly´s Complaint
  45. Poems Wrongly Attributed to Etherege
  46. The Lady of Pleasure
  47. Song
  48. Song
  49. Song
  50. Song
  51. Notes
  52. Index of Titles and First Lines