Blossom, Fade, and Die Away: English Poetry of Youth and Aging in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Poetry, eighteenth-century, British, youth, agingSynopsis
This poetry anthology is the product of a third-year university course in English literature (Spring 2024) 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: 978-1-77287-129-6
Chapters
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Front cover
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Childhood
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Joanna Baillie, “A Mother to her Waking Infant”
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Mary Barber, “Written for my Son, and Spoken by Him at his First Putting on Breeches"
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Nathaniel Cotton, “To a Child of Five Years Old” Charles Hanbury Williams, “Ode on Miss Harriet Hanbury”
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Charles Hanbury Williams, “Ode on Miss Harriet Hanbury”
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Young Adulthood
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Rebekah Carmichael, “On the Sudden Death of a Young Gentleman”
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Eliza Day, “To the Memory of a Lady, Whom the Author Much Esteemed When Very Young”
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Thomas Edwards, Sonnet XI
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Richard Graves, “The Parting: Written Some Years after Marriage”
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Henry Harington, “The Hermite’s Addresse to Youthe”
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Benjamin Hoadly, “To Chloe, Written on my Birth-Day, 1734”
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Mary Robinson, “On the Birth-Day of a Lady”
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William Shenstone, “The Dying Kid”
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Charlotte Smith, Sonnet XLIX “Supposed to have been Written in a Church Yard, over the Grave of a Young Woman of Nineteen, From the Novel of Celestina”
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The Middle of Life
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Constantine Barber, “To Mrs. Barber, New-Year’s Day, 1733”
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Susanna Blamire, “When Home We Return”
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Elizabeth Carter, “To ---- ”
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“Ode, to a Lady in London”
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Sneyd Davies, “To C*** P****, Esq”
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John Gerrard, “A Song”
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Thomas Gray, “Epitaph on Mrs. Clerke”
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John Hawkesworth, “A Moral Thought”
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William Taylor, “The Dropsical Man”
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The End of Life
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Joanna Baillie, “A Child to his Sick Grandfather”
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James Barclay, “The Metamorphose”
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William Cowper, “A Comparison”
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George Bubb Dodington, “Verses Sent by Lord Melcombe to Dr. Young, Not Long Before His Lordship’s Death”
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Thomas Edwards, Sonnet II
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Sonnet V “On a Family-Picture”
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Elizabeth Rowe, “Thoughts on Death”
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October 1, 2025
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