Beattie's Poetical Works

CONTENTS

THE JEW

THREE PORTRAITS

ENOUGH A FRAGMENT FROM THE NOTE-BOOK OF A DEAD ARTIST I II III

of Beattie, Blair and Falconer

With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes,

by the Rev. George Gilfillan

Table of Contents

• Beattie's Poetical Works
• The Life and Poetry of James Beattie
• The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius
• • Book I
  • Book II
• Miscellaneous Poems
• • Ode to Hope
  • Ode to Peace
  • Ode on Lord Hay's Birthday
  • The Judgment of Paris
  • The Triumph of Melancholy
  • Elegy
  • Elegy, written in the year 1758
  • Retirement
  • The Hermit
  • On the Report of a Monument to be erected in Westminster Abbey, to the Memory of a late Author (Churchill)
  • The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes
  • The Hares. A Fable
  • The Wolf and Shepherds. A Fable
  • Song, in imitation of Shakspeare's "Blow, blow, thou winter wind" .
  • To Lady Charlotte Gordon, dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet, with Plumes, &c
  • Epitaph: being part of an Inscription designed for a Monument erected by a Gentleman to the Memory of his Lady
  • Epitaph on Two Young Men of the name of Leitch, who were drowned in crossing the River Southesk
  • Epitaph, intended for Himself
  
  
• Blair's Poetical Works
• The Life of Robert Blair
• • The Grave
  • A Poem, dedicated to the Memory of the late learned and eminent Mr William Law, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh
  
  
• Falconer's Poetical Works
• The Life of William Falconer
• • The Shipwreck
  • • The Shipwreck: Introduction
    • The Shipwreck: Canto I
    • The Shipwreck: Canto II
    • The Shipwreck: Canto III
    • Occasional Elegy, in which the preceding narrative is concluded
  • Miscellaneous Poems
  • • The Demagogue
    • A Poem, sacred to the Memory of His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales
    • Ode on the Duke of York's second departure from England as Rear-Admiral
    • The Fond Lover. A Ballad
    • On the Uncommon Scarcity of Poetry in the Gentleman's Magazine for December last, 1755, by I. W., a sailor
    • Description of a Ninety-Gun Ship