ABSTRACT

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.

chapter

Introduction

part |160 pages

John Wolcot (‘Peter Pindar, Esq.’)

chapter |8 pages

Overview

part |152 pages

‘The Lousiad, an Heroi-Comic Poem’ (1794–96)

chapter |35 pages

Canto I.

chapter |38 pages

Canto II.

chapter |30 pages

Canto III.

chapter |18 pages

Canto IV.

chapter |30 pages

Canto V.

part |42 pages

Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Bayly (‘Q. in the Corner’)

chapter |4 pages

Overview

part |38 pages

Epistles from Bath; or, Q.’s Letters to His Yorkshire Relations (1817)

part |146 pages

‘James Harley’

chapter |6 pages

Overview

part |140 pages

‘The Press, or Literary Chit-Chat. A Satire’ (1822)

chapter |54 pages

Part I. The Press.

A Satire.

chapter |56 pages

Part II. The Press.

A Satire.

chapter |22 pages

Part III. The Press.

A Satire.

part |24 pages

Anon.

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part |12 pages

‘The Illiberal! Verse and Prose from the North!!’ (1822)