Other Works
Other works by Young are:
- The Instalment (to Sir R. Walpole, 1726)
- Cynthio (1727)
- A Vindication of Providence ... (1728), a sermon
- An Apology for Punch (1729), a sermon
- Imperium Pelagi, a Naval Lyrick ... (1730)
- Two Epistles to Mr Pope concerning the Authors of the Age (1730)
- A Sea-Piece ... (1733)
- The Foreign Address, or The Best Argument for Peace (1734)
- The Centaur not Fabulous; in Five Letters to a Friend (1755)
- An Argument ... for the Truth of His Religion (1758), a sermon preached before the king
- Conjectures on Original Composition ... (1759), addressed to Samuel Richardson
- Resignation ... (1762), a poem.
Night Thoughts was illustrated by William Blake in 1797, and by Thomas Stothard in 1799. The Poetical Works of the Rev. Edward Young ... were revised by himself for publication, and a completed edition appeared in 1778. The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose, of the Rev. Edward Young ..., with a life by John Doran, appeared in 1854. Sir Herbert Croft wrote the life included in Johnson's Lives of the Poets, but the critical remarks are by Johnson.
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