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Selected poems

Jonathan Swift ; edited with an introduction by Pat Rogers

(Penguin classics)

Penguin, 1993

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Description

This selection of Swift's poetry is drawn from "The Penguin English Poets Complete Poems", edited by Pat Rogers.

Table of Contents

  • Verses wrote in a lady's ivory table-book
  • the humble petition of Frances Harris
  • the description of a salamander
  • Baucis and Philemon
  • a description of the morning
  • the virtues of Sid Hamet the magician's rod
  • a description of a city shower
  • an excellent new song
  • Cadenus and Vanessa
  • Horace, Epistle VII, Book I - imitated and addressed to the Earl of Oxford
  • the author upon himself
  • Horace, Lib.2, Sat 6
  • Mary the cook-maid's letter to Dr Sheridan
  • Stella's birthday (1719)
  • the progress of beauty
  • to Stella, who collected and transcribed his poems
  • upon the south sea project
  • Stella's birthday (1721)
  • the part of a summer
  • the progress of marriage
  • a satirical elegy on the death of a late famous general
  • upon the horrid plot discovered by Harlequin the Bishop of Rochester's French dog
  • Stella's birthday (1723)
  • to Charles Ford, Esq on his birthday
  • Pethox the great
  • to Stella, written on the day of her birth
  • Prometheus
  • Stella's birthday (1725)
  • a receipt to restore Stella's youth
  • to Quilca
  • a pastoral dialogue between Richmond Lodge and Marble Hill
  • the furniture of a woman's mind
  • Holyhead - September 25, 1727
  • the journal of a modern lady
  • the grand question debated
  • a libel on the Reverend Dr Delany and His Excellency John, Lord Carteret
  • death and Daphne
  • an excellent new ballad
  • the lady's dressing room
  • a beautiful young nymph going to bed
  • Strephon and Chloe
  • Cassinus and Peter
  • to Mr Gray
  • verses on the death of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D.
  • on the day of judgement
  • on poetry - a rhapsody
  • to a lady
  • a character, panegyric, and description of the Legion Club.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA20344866
  • ISBN
    • 014042377X
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 222 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
  • Classification
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