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Tables of Contents for Selected Writings
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
7
7
A Note on the Texts
14
1
POEMS
A Prologue...
15
1
On a Beautiful Youth Struck Blind with Lightning
15
1
The Gift
16
1
A Sonnet
16
1
An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize
17
1
The Double Transformation
18
3
Description of an Author's Bed-chamber
21
1
On Seeing Mrs *** Perform in the Character of ***
22
1
On the Death of the Right Honourable ***
22
1
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
23
2
Stanzas on Woman
25
1
Edwin and Angelina
25
6
Songs
31
1
The Traveller
32
12
A New Simile
44
2
Verses in Reply to an Invitation...
46
1
Epitaph on Edward Purdon
47
1
Epilogue to The Good-Natured Man
48
1
Epilogue to The Sister
49
2
The Deserted Village
51
12
Epitaph on Dr Parnell
63
1
The Haunch of Venison
63
4
Prologue to Zobeide
67
1
Song
68
1
Epilogue to She Stoops to Conquer
68
2
Epilogue spoken by Mr Lee Lewes...
70
1
Retaliation
71
6
PROSE
[On Ovid's Epistles]
77
8
From An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe
85
12
From The Bee
97
15
From The Citizen of the World
112
22
The Revolution in Low Life
134
3
From An History of the Earth and Animated Nature
137
8
To Mrs Bunbury
145
4
Afterword: Goldsmith and Politics
149
20
Notes
169