1st Edition

British Satire, 1785-1840, Volume 2

By John Strachan, Steven E Jones Copyright 2004

    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.

    List of Short Titles -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction by David Walker -- George Ellis -- From Criticisms on the Rolliad (1784–85) -- Thomas James Mathias -- From The Pursuits of Literature (1794–97; 1798) -- Richard Polwhele -- The Unsex’d Females (1798) -- Eaton Stannard Barrett -- From All the Talents; A Satirical Poem (1807) -- Lady Anne Hamilton -- From The Epics of the Ton (1807) -- Richard Mant -- From The Simpliciad (1808) -- Lord Byron -- From English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) -- George Daniel -- From The Modern Dunciad, A Satire (1814) -- Thomas Love Peacock -- From Sir Proteus: A Satirical Ballad (1814) -- ‘S. T. Colebritche’ -- From Christabess (1816) -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- From Oedipus Tyrannus, or, Swellfoot the Tyrant (1820) -- From Peter Bell the Third (1819) -- Henry Luttrell -- From Letters to Julia, in Rhyme (1820; 1822) -- John Keats -- From The Cap and Bells, or The Jealousies (1819) -- Lord Byron -- From Don Juan (1819–24) -- Anon. -- From Khouli Khan (1820) -- Lord Byron -- The Vision of Judgment (1821) -- William Combe -- From The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of a Wife (1821) -- Sir Charles and Lady Morgan -- From The Mohawks: A Satirical Poem with Notes (1822) -- Robert Montgomery -- From The Age Reviewed (1827) -- Explanatory Notes.