The Pleasures Sought by Others You Despise: Vice and Virtue in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry
Synopsis
This twenty-eight-poem anthology is the product of a third-year university course in English literature of the long eighteenth century at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby BC, Canada, located on the traditional and unceded lands of Coast Salish peoples of the Səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
ISBN: 978-1-77287-096-1
Chapters
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Cover
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Vice
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William Cowper, “The Love of the World Reproved; Or, Hypocrisy Detected”
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John Ellis, “The Cheat’s Apology”
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Anne Finch, “The Prevalence of Custom”
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Anne Finch, “Reformation”
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John Hoadly, “The Indolent”
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Soame Jenyns, “The Modern Fine Lady”
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Mary Leapor, “Dorinda at her Glass"
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James Merrick “The Bears and Bees, a Fable”
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William Shenstone, “Ode to Indolence”
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Richard Shepherd, “Ode on Envy”
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Christopher Smart, “Against Ill-Nature”
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William Whitehead, “The Youth and the Philosopher”
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Virtue
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Constantine Barber, “To the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Boyle, Daughter to the Right Honourable John Earl of Orrery, on her Birth-Day, May 7, 1733”
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Mary Barber, “A Letter to a Friend, on Occasion of some Libels Written against Him”
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Mary Barber, “To the Rt. Hon. Charlotte Lady Conway, on her Resolving to Leave Bath”
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Elizabeth Carter, “Ode to Wisdom”
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William Cowper, “The Doves”
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William Melmoth, “Epistle to Sappho”
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James Merrick, “The Trials of Virtue”
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Henry Taylor, “Paradise Regain’d”
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Both Virtue and Vice
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Mark Akenside, Inscription #3
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Anna Letitia Barbauld, “The Mouse’s Petition”
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Mary Barber, “Written at Bath to a Young Lady, Who Had Just Before Given Me a Short Answer”
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Nathaniel Cotton, “The Bee, the Ant, and the Sparrow: A Fable”
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William Cowper, “Human Frailty”
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Mary Leapor, “The Fall of Lucia”
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Matthew Prior, “Picture of Seneca dying in a Bath, By Jordain, at the Right Honorable the Earl of Exeter’s at Burleigh-House”
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Elizabeth Singer Rowe, “The Reflection”
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September 8, 2022
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9781772870961
