The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 3: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century – Second Edition

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Preface

Acknowledgments

THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

• THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
  • Religion, Government, and Party Politics
    Empiricism, Skepticism, and Religious Dissent
    Industry, Commerce, and the Middle Class
    Ethical Dilemmas in a Changing Nation
    Print Culture
    Poetry
    Theater
    The Novel
    The Development of the English Language

• HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE

• MARGARET CAVENDISH
  • The Poetess’s Hasty Resolution
    An Excuse for so Much Writ Upon My Verses
    Of the Theme of Love
    A Woman Drest by Age
    A Dialogue Betwixt the Body and the Mind
    The Hunting of the Hare
    from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World
    • from To the Reader
      The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World
      [The Lady Becomes Empress]
      [The Empress Brings the Duchess of Newcastle to Be Her Scribe]
      [The Duchess and the Empress Create Their Own Worlds]
      The Epilogue to the Reader
  • from Sociable Letters
    • 55
      143
      163
  • The Convent of Pleasure
    from A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life

• JOHN AUBREY
  • from Brief Lives
    • Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans
      John Milton
      Andrew Marvell

• JOHN BUNYAN
  • from The Pilgrim’s Progress
    • The Author’s Apology for His Book
      from The Second Part

• JOHN DRYDEN
  • Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem
    Mac Flecknoe
    from Religio Laici or A Layman’s Faith
    To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
    A Song for St. Cecilia”rsquo;s Day
    Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace
    from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

• SAMUEL PEPYS
  • from The Diary
    IN CONTEXT: Other Accounts of the Great Fire
    • The Great Fire of London, 1666
      from The London Gazette (3–10 September 1666)

• CONTEXTS: MIND AND GOD, FAITH AND SCIENCE
  • from Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge (1667)
    • from Section 5. A Model of Their Whole Design
      from Section 20. Their Manner of Discourse
      from Section 22. A Defence of the Royal Society, in Respect of the Ancients
  • Philosophical Transactions
    • Introduction to the First Issue (1665)
      “An Account of a Very Odd Monstrous Calf” (1665)
      from Robert Boyle, “Trials Proposed by Mr. Boyle to Dr. Lower to Be Made by Him for the Improvement of Transfusing Blood out of One Live Animal into Another” (1666)
      Thomas Coxe, “An Account of Another Experiment of Transfusion, viz. of Bleeding a Mangy into a Sound Dog”
      from Will Chesselden, “An Account of Some Observations Made by a Young Gentleman Who Was Born Blind, or Lost His Sight So Early, That He Had No Remembrance of Ever Having Seen, and Was Couched Between 13 and
      14 Years of Age”
      from Sir Isaac Newton, “A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, Containing His New Theory about Light and Colours” (1671)
      from Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
      from Joseph Priestley, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
      • from The Preface
        from The Introduction
    • from John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
      • from Book 2, “Of Ideas,” Chapter 1
        from Book 2, Chapter 23
    • from Robert Hooke, Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses, with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
      • The Epistle Dedicatory. To the King
        To the Royal Society
        from The Preface
        from Observation 1. Of the Point of a Small Sharp Needle
        from Observation 39. Of the Eyes and Head of a Great Drone-Fly, and of Several Other Creatures
    • from Margaret Cavendish, Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, To Which Is Added, The Description of a New Blazing World
      • from Preface to the Ensuing Treatise
        from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World
    • from Voltaire, Micromegas
      • Chapter 4: What happened to them upon this our globe
        Chapter 5: The experiments and reasonings of the two travellers
        from Chapter 6: What happened to them in their intercourse with men
        Chapter 7: A conversation with men
    • from Sir Isaac Newton, Letter to Richard Bentley (10 December 1692)
      from James Thomson, “A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton”
      Mark Akenside, “Hymn to Science”
      from Margaret Bryan, A Compendious System of Astronomy
      • from Lecture 1
    • from Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Joseph Priestley (8 September 1780)
      Isaac Watts, “Against Idleness and Mischief”
      Isaac Watts, “Man Frail, and God Eternal”
      from David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
      • from Section 10: “Of Miracles”
    • from James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
      from The Spectator No. 7 (8 March 1711)
      William Hogarth, Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism: A Medley
      from Erasmus Darwin, Loves of the Plants
      • from the Advertisement
        from the Proem
        from Loves of the Plants
    • from Mary Astell, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
      from Judith Drake, An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex
      from Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator No. 10 (February 1745)

• APHRA BEHN
  • The Disappointment
    On a Juniper Tree, Cut Down to Make Busks
    To the Fair Clarinda
    The Feigned Courtesans
    Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave. A True History

• WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
  • The Country Wife

• JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER
  • A Satire on Charles II
    A Satire against Reason and Mankind
    Love and Life: A Song
    The Disabled Debauchee
    A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country
    The Imperfect Enjoyment
    Impromptu on Charles II
    IN CONTEXT: The Lessons of Rochester”rsquo;s Life

• DANIEL DEFOE
  • A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal
    from Robinson Crusoe
    • from Chapter 3
      Chapter 4
      Chapter 5
      Chapter 6
  • IN CONTEXT: Illustrating Robinson Crusoe
    from A Journal of the Plague Year

• ANNE FINCH: COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA
  • from The Spleen: A Pindaric Poem
    The Introduction
    A Letter to Daphnis (April 2, 1685)
    To Mr. F., Now Earl of W.
    The Unequal Fetters
    By neer resemblance that Bird betray”rsquo;d
    A Nocturnal Reverie

• MARY ASTELL
  • from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
    from Reflections upon Marriage
    • from The Preface

• JONATHAN SWIFT
  • The Progress of Beauty
    A Description of a City Shower
    Stella’s Birthday, written in the year 1718
    Stella’s Birthday (1727)
    The Lady’s Dressing Room
    Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
    Gulliver’s Travels
    • Part One: A Voyage to Lilliput
      Part Two: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
      Part Three: A Voyage to Laputa
      Part Four: A Voyage to the Country of The Houyhnhnms
      IN CONTEXT: Gulliver’s Travels in Its Time
      • from Letter from Swift to Alexander Pope (29 September 1725)
        from Letter from Swift to Alexander Pope (26 November 1725)
        Letter from “Richard Sympson” to Benjamin Motte (8 August 1726)
        from Letter from John Gay and Alexander Pope to Swift (17 November 1726)
        from Letter from Alexander Pope to Swift (26 November 1726)
  • A Modest Proposal
    IN CONTEXT: Sermons and Tracts: Backgrounds to A Modest Proposal
    • from Jonathan Swift, “Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland”
      from Jonathan Swift, A Short View of the State of Ireland

• JOSEPH ADDISON
  • from The Spectator
    • No. 285 [On the Language of Paradise Lost]
      No. 414 [Nature, Art, Gardens]

• JOHN GAY
  • The Beggar’s Opera

• ALEXANDER POPE
  • from An Essay on Criticism
    Windsor-Forest
    The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos
    Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
    Eloisa To Abelard
    from An Essay on Man
    • The Design
      Epistle 1
      Epistle 2
  • An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot
    Epistle 2. To a Lady
    Epistle 4. To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington

• LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU
  • Saturday; The Small Pox
    The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem called The Lady’s Dressing Room
    The Lover: A Ballad
    Epistle from Mrs. Y[onge] to Her Husband
    The Spectator No. 573 [From the President of the Widow’s Club] (28 July 1714)
    A Plain Account of the Inoculating of the Smallpox by a Turkey Merchant
    Selected Letters
    • To Wortley (28 March 1710)
      To Philippa Mundy (25 September 1711)
      To Philippa Mundy (c. 2 November 1711)
      To Wortley (c. 26 July 1712)
      From Wortley (13 August 1712)
      To Wortley (15 August 1712)
      To Wortley (15 August 1712)
      To Lady Mar (17 November 1716)
      To Lady— (1 April 1717)
      To Lady Mar (1 April 1717)
      To [Sarah Chiswell] (1 April 1717)
      To Alexander Pope (September 1718)
      To Lady Mar (September 1727)
      To Lady Bute (5 January 1748)
      To Lady Bute (19 February 1750)
      To Wortley (10 October 1753)
      To Lady Bute (30 November[?] 1753)
      To Sir James Steuart (14 November 1758)

• ELIZA HAYWOOD
  • Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze
    IN CONTEXT: The Eighteenth-Century Sexual Imagination
    • from A Present for a Servant-Maid
      from Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in Her Smock

• CONTEXTS: PRINT CULTURE, STAGE CULTURE
  • from Nahum Tate, The History of King Lear
    from Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber
    from Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
    • Introduction
      from Chapter 1: The Immodesty of the Stage
      from Chapter 4: The Stage-Poets Make Their Principal Persons Vicious and Reward Them at the End of the Play
  • from Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 18 (21 March 1711)
    from The Licensing Act of 1737
    from The Statute of Anne
    from James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
    Joseph Addison, The Tatler No. 224 (14 September 1710)
    from Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 30 (11 November 1758)
    from Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance
    from James Lackington, Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of the Life of James Lackington, Bookseller
    from Thomas Erskine, Speech as Prosecution in the Seditious-Libel Trial of Thomas Williams for Publishing Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine

• CONTEXTS: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICALS AND PRINTS
  • Daniel Defoe, Introduction, A Weekly Review of the Affairs of France No. 1
    from Richard Steele, The Tatler No. 21 [The Gentleman; The Pretty Fellow]
    from Joseph Addison, The Tatler No. 155 [The Political Upholsterer] (6 April 1710)
    from The Female Tatler No. 1 [Introduction, Advertisment] (8 July 1709)
    Richard Steele, The Spectator No. 11 [Inkle and Yarico] (13 March 1711)
    Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 112 [Sir Roger at Church] (19 July 1711)
    from Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 127 [On the Hoop Petticoat] (26 July 1711)
    John Hughes, The Spectator No. 302 [Emilia]
    The Walpole Print War
    • Bolingbroke, “Remarks on the History of England: Letter 5,” The Craftsman No. 215
      James Pitt, “A Continuation of the Observations on Mr. Oldcastle’s Remarks upon the English History,” The London Journal No. 577
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Nonsense of Common-Sense No. 5 [On Publishing] (17 January 1738)
    from Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator Book 1 [The Author’s Intent]
    from Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator Book 1 [Erminia] (April 1744)
    Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 148 [On Parental Tyranny] (17 August 1751)
    from Samuel Richardson, The Rambler No. 97 [Change in the Manners of Women] (19 February 1751)
    Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 114 [On Capital Punishment] (20 April 1751)
    Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 170 [Misella, A Prostitute] and No. 171 [Misella’s Story Continued]
    Henry Fielding, The Covent-Garden Journal No. 4 [A Modern Glossary]
    from Henry Fielding, The Covent-Garden Journal No. 6 [Mortality of Print] (21 January 1752)
    Henry Fielding, The Covent-Garden Journal No. 31 [Criticism of Shakespeare]
    from Frances Brooke, The Old Maid No. 13 [The Foundling Hospital]
    (7 February 1756)
    from Frances Brooke, The Old Maid No. 18 [On King Lear]
    from Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Idler [On Beauty]
    Oliver Goldsmith, Letter 3, The Public Ledger No. 15 [The Citizen of the World Observes British Fashion] (29 January 1760)
    Pierre Joseph Boudier de Villemert, “Of the Studies Proper for Women,” The Lady’s Museum No. 1
    François Fénelon, “Of the Importance of the Education of Daughters,” The Lady’s Museum No. 4
    from John Wilkes, The North Briton No. 45 [The King’s Speech]
    Prints

• JAMES THOMSON
  • • Winter
      Spring
      Summer
      Autumn
  • Rule, Britannia

• HENRY FIELDING
  • The Tragedy of Tragedies: or, the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
    IN CONTEXT

• SAMUEL JOHNSON
  • The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated
    On the Death of Dr. Robert Levett
    from The Rambler
    • No. 4 [On Fiction] (31 March 1750)
      No. 12 [Cruelty of Employers] (28 April 1750)
      No. 60 [On Biography] (13 October 1750)
      No. 155 [On Becoming Acquainted with Our Real Characters] (10 September 1751)
  • from The Idler
    • No. 26 [Betty Broom] (14 October 1758)
      No. 29 [Betty Broom, cont.] (4 November 1758)
      No. 31 [On Idleness] (18 November 1758)
      No. 49 [Will Marvel] (24 March 1759)
      No. 81 [On Native Americans] (3 November 1759)
  • from A Dictionary of the English Language
    • from The Preface
      Selected Entries
  • from The Preface to The Works of William Shakespeare
    from Lives of the English Poets
    • from John Milton
      from Alexander Pope
  • Letters
    • To the Right Honourable Earl of Chesterfield (7 February 1755)
      To Mrs. Thrale (10 July 1780)
      To Mrs. Thrale (19 June 1783)
      To Mrs. Thrale (2 July 1784)
      To Mrs. Thrale (8 July 1784)

• THOMAS GRAY
  • Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
    Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
    Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West
    Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
    The Bard

• POPULAR BALLADS
  • Robin Hood and Alan a Dale
    Edward, Edward
    Tam Lin
    The Death of Robin Hood
    A Lyke-Wake Dirge
    Mary Hamilton

• HORACE WALPONE
  • The Castle of Otranto
    • Chapter 1
      Chapter 2
      Chapter 3
      Chapter 4
      Chapter 5
      IN CONTEXT: The Origins of The Castle of Otranto
      • from a Letter by Walpole to the Reverend William Cole, 9 March 1765
    • IN CONTEXT: Reactions to The Castle of Otranto
      • from The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal Volume 32 (1764)
        from The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal Volume 32 (1765)
        from William Warburton, a footnote to line 146 of Alexander Pope’s poem First Epistle to the Second Book of Horace Imitated, in Warburton’s edition of Pope’s verse
        from William Hazlitt, “On the English Novelists” (1819)
        from Sir Walter Scott, “Introduction” to the 1811 edition of The Castle of Otranto

• WILLIAM COLLINS
  • Ode to Fear

• CHRISTOPHER SMART
  • from Jubilate Agno
    • [MY CAT JEOFFRY]

• CONTEXTS: TRANSATLANTIC CURRENTS
  • Slavery
    • from Richard Ligon, A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados
      from John Woolman, “Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes”
      from John Bicknell and Thomas Day, “The Dying Negro, A Poem”
      from William Cowper, The Task
      • from Book 2
        from Book 4
    • Hannah More, “Slavery: A Poem”
      Ann Yearsley, “A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade”
  • Immigration to America
    • from Ebenezer Cooke, The Sotweed Factor
      from William Moraley, The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant
      from Gottlieb Mittelberger, Journey to Pennsylvania
      from Lady Lucan, “On the Present State of Ireland”
      from Commissioners of the Customs in Scotland, Report on the Examination
      of the Emigrants from the Counties of Caithness and Sutherland on Board the Ship
      Bachelor of Leith Bound to Wilmington in North Carolina
      from Benjamin Franklin, Information to Those Who Would Remove to America
      from J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
      from Anonymous, Look Before You Leap
      • from The Preface
    • from Israel Potter, Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter
  • General Wolfe and the Fall of Quebec
    • from Tobias Smollett “Anecdotes Relating to the Battle of Quebec”
      from Thomas Cary, “Abram’s Plains”
      from Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of King George II
  • Colonists and Native People
    • from Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
      from William Penn, “A Letter from William Penn, Proprietary and Governor of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that Province Residing in London”
      from Samson Occom, A Short Narrative of My Life
      Benjamin Franklin, “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America”
      William Wordsworth, “Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman”
      from Susannah Johnson, The Captive American, or A Narrative of the Suffering of Mrs. Johnson During Four Years Captivity with the Indians and French
      • from the Introduction
        from Chapter 1
        from Chapter 3
        from Chapter 4
        from Chapter 5
  • American Independence
    • from Edmund Burke, “Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies”
      from Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Addresses of the American Congress
      from Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
      from Richard Price, Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America
      • from Part 2
        • from Section 1, Of the Justice of the War with America
          from Section 3, Of the Policy of the War with America
    • Thomas Jefferson, “A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled”
      from Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
      • Number 1
    • from Richard Price, Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution
      from Judith Sargent Murray, “The Gleaner Contemplates the Future Prospects of Women in this ‘Enlightened Age’”

• CONTEXTS: THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
  • from John Newton, A Slave Trader’s Journal
    from Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
    from Alexander Falconbridge, Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
    William Cowper, “Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce” or, The Slave-Trader in the Dumps
    from William Wilberforce, “Speech to the House of Commons,” 13 May 1789
    Proponents of Slavery
    • from Rev. Robert Boncher Nicholls, Observations, Occasioned by the Attempts Made in England to Effect the Abolition of the Slave Trade
  • from Anonymous, Thoughts on the Slavery of Negroes, as It Affects the British Colonies in the West Indies: Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of Both Houses of Parliament
    from Gordon Turnbull, An Apology of Negro Slavery; or, the West India Planters Vindicated from the Charge of Inhumanity
    from Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
    Anna Laetitia Barbauld, “Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade”
    William Blake, Images of Slavery
    from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Slave Trade
    from William Earle, Obi; or, the History of Three-Fingered Jack
    Mary Robinson, Poems on Slavery
    • “The African”
      “The Negro Girl”
  • from Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal
    from Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade
    from Matthew Gregory Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor

• OLIVER GOLDSMITH
  • The Deserted Village

• WILLIAM COWPER
  • Light Shining Out of Darkness
    from The Task
    • Advertisement
      from Book 1: The Sofa
      from Book 6: The Winter Walk at Noon
  • The Castaway
    The Retired Cat
    On the Loss of the Royal George
    My Mary

• JAMES BOSWELL
  • from London Journal
    • Introduction
  • from The Life of Samuel Johnson

• LABOURING-CLASS POETS
  • Stephen Duck
    • The Thresher’s Labour (1730)
      The Thresher’s Labour (1736 edition)
  • Mary Collier
    • The Woman’s Labour: To Mr. Stephen Duck
  • Mary Leapor
    • An Epistle to a Lady
      To a Gentleman with a Manuscript Play
      Crumble Hall
  • Elizabeth Hands
    • On the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant Maid

• CONTEXTS: TOWN AND COUNTRY
  • from John Gay, Trivia
    Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 69 (19 May 1711)
    from Daniel Defoe, “On Trade” (from The Complete English Tradesman), Letter 22, “Of the Dignity of Trade in England More Than in Other Countries”
    from The Female Tatler No. 9 (25–27 July 1709)
    from The Female Tatler No. 67 (7–9 December 1709)
    from Anonymous, The Character of a Coffee-House, with the Symptoms of a Town-Wit
    from Anonymous, Coffee-Houses Vindicated
    from Richard Steele, The Spectator No. 155 (28 August 1711)
    William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode
    Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 119 (17 July 1711)
    from John Gay, The Shepherd’s Week
    from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues
    from Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 414 (25 June 1712)
    from Alexander Pope, Letter to Edward Blount (2 June 1725)
    from John Dyer, The Fleece
    from Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
    • Of the Sublime
      Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime
      The Sublime and Beautiful Compared

• HESTER THRALE PIOZZI
  • from Hester Thrale’s Journal
    Selected Letters
    • To Samuel Johnson (4 July 1784)
      To Samuel Johnson (15 July 1784)
      To the Ladies of Liangollen (2 May 1800)
      To the Reverend Leonard Chappelow (13 May 1800)
      To the Reverend Robert Gray (13 May 1801)
      To the Reverend Chappelow (18 June 1804)
      To Penelope Sophia Pennington (19 August 1804)

• OLAUDAH EQUIANO OR GUSTAVUS VASSA
  • from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
    • Chapter 1
      Chapter 2
      Chapter 5
      Chapter 7
  • IN CONTEXT: Reactions to Olaudah Equiano’s Work
    • from The Analytic Review, May 1789
      from The Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1789
      from The Monthly Review, June 1789
      from The General Magazine and Impartial Review, July 1789

• RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
  • The School for Scandal

• FRANCES BURNEY
  • The Witlings
    • IN CONTEXT: Journals and Letters
      • from Letter from Frances Burney to Susanna Burney (3 September 1778)
        from Letter from Frances Burney to Dr. Charles Burney (c. 13 August 1779)
        from Oliver Goldsmith’s “An Essay on the Theatre”

• PHILLIS WHEATLEY
  • To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth
    On Being Brought from Africa to America
    To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty
    On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield
    A Farewell to America: To Mrs. S.W.
    A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E., An Infant of Twelve Months
    IN CONTEXT: Letters Concerning Black or Slave Writers
    • Copy of a Letter sent by the Author’s Master to the Publisher, Boston (14 November 1772)
      from The Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Post Boy and Advertisers (21 March 1774)
      from Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

APPENDICES

Reading Poetry

Maps

Monarchs and Prime Ministers of Great Britain

Glossary of Terms

Texts and Contexts: Chronological Chart

Bibliography

Permissions Acknowledgments

Index of First Lines

Index of Authors and Titles