Selected Prose and Poetry
of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
transcribed by Richard Bear,
Contents:
•Note on the e-text edition •Introduction •Prose
•Account of the Court of George I. •A Letter from the Other World, To a Lady, From her Former Husband. •From the Nonsense of Common-Sense.
•Poems:
•Julia to Ovid. •Irregular Verses to Truth. •Song. •The Lady's Resolve. •Town Eclogues. [six poems] •Verses ("Written in the Chiosk, etc."). •Epilogue to Mary Queen of Scots •Epilogue to the Tragedy of Cato. •To A Friend on His Travels. •To the Same. •Fragment. •To Mr. ------. •John Duke of Marlborough. •A Character. •An Answer to a Love-Letter, in Verse. •Lord Hervey to Mr. Fox. •An Epistle to the Earl of Burlington. •Verses Addressed to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace. •Unfinished Sketches. •The Court of Dulness. •An Epistle from Pope to Lord Bolingbroke. •Lady Hertford. •Epistle from Arthur Grey, the Footman to Mrs. Murray. •The Fourth Ode of the First Book of Horace Imitated. •The Fifth Ode of the First Book of Horace Imitated. •The Lover: a Ballad. •On Seeing A Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole. •An Elegy on Mrs. Thompson. •On the Death of Mrs. Bowles. •A Man in Love. •A Ballad. •A Hymn to the Moon. •The Bride in the Country. •Melinda's Complaint. •Song. •Song--Rondeau. •Epithalamium. •The Ninth Ode of the Third Book of Horace Imitated. •A Summary of Lord Littleton's Advice to a Lady. •Song. "Why will Delia, etc." •The Politicians. •Ballad, on a Late Occurrence. •Song. "Blame Not That Love, etc." •Verses, Written in a Garden. •Song. "Fond Wishes You Pursue, etc." •Impromptu, To A Young Lady Singing. •Advice. •Answer. •Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday. •Epigram, 1734. •An Answer to a Lady. •Written at Lovere, October, 1736. ...
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