Introduction / John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem -- To the Memory of Mr Oldham -- A Song for St Cecilia's Day -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) -- The Imperfect Enjoyment -- A Satyr against Reason and Mankind -- The Disabled Debauchee -- Lampoon [On the Women about Town] -- Signior Dildo -- A Satyr on Charles II -- A Letter from Artemiza in the Town to Chloe in the Country -- A Ramble in Saint James's Park -- Song ('Fair Cloris in a Piggsty lay') -- A Song ('Absent from thee I languish still') -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- A Description of the Morning -- A Description of a City Shower -- Strephon and Chloe -- The Lady's Dressing Room -- A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed -- Cassinus and Peter: A Tragical Elegy -- Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Miss Blount, with the Works of Voiture -- The Rape of the Lock -- Eloisa to Abelard -- Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -- The Vanity of Human Wishes -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College -- Sonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West] -- Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat -- Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard -- William Collins (1721-1759) -- Ode to Fear -- Ode to Evening -- Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) -- The Deserted Village, A Poem.