Poetical Scavenger

An Annotated Digital Miscellany of Eighteenth-Century Poems

Skip to content

About
Table of Contents
The Poems
Poet Biographies
Editorial Principles and Procedures
Contact

Poet Biographies

Use the drop-down menu to locate short biographies of individual poets who have at least one poem currently available on this site.

Search for:

Tags

Recent Posts

Henry Norris, “Friendship”
Phillis Wheatley, “On Recollection”
Anonymous, “To Mr. C–T–BY”
John Hughes, “A Letter to a Friend in the Country”
Elizabeth Carter, “Written at Midnight in a Thunderstorm. To——“
George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, “The Vision”
Aphra Behn, “The Dream. A Song”
John Dryden, “To Henry Higden, Esq; On his Translation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal”
Priscilla Pointon, “Address to a Bachelor, On a delicate Occasion”
Mary Barber, “Written for my Son, and spoken by him in School, upon his Master’s first bringing in a Rod”
Christopher Smart, “A Noon-Piece; or, The Mowers at Dinner”
William Blake, “A War Song to Englishmen”
Margaret Cavendish, “The Pastime and Recreation of the Queen of Fairies in Fairy-Land, the Center of the Earth”
Michael Bruce, “Anacreontic: To a Wasp”
Elizabeth Carter, “To —-.”
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “Farewell to Bath”
“R.”, “The Toasts. A Fable.”
Aphra Behn, “On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks”
[Mary Barber], “The Oak and its Branches. A Fable.”
[John Scott], “Verses occasioned by the Description of the Eolian Harp”

Proudly powered by WordPress