Poetry
- William Collins - Persian Eclogues
- Thomas Cooke - Original Poems
- James Hammond - Love Elegies
- James Merrick - The Destruction of Troy
- William Shenstone - The School-Mistress
- William Somervile - Field Sports
- Charles Hanbury Williams - The Country Girl: An ode
- Edward Young - Night Thoughts
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“Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity to history, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
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“I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)