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Title: To the author of The Complaint
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Extravagant praise of the poetic skill of Edward Young's "Complaint, or Night
Thoughts" for revealing the truths of the Christian religion and human
existence in so affecting and inspirational a manner
Title: To the author of the Complaint
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: In praise of the poetic skill of Edward Young's "Complaint, or Night
Thoughts", for revealing the truths of the Christian religion and human
existence in so inspirational a manner; comparing other contemporary poets.
Title: The fate of authors
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Arguing that long-term literary fame depends upon genius, not merely upon initial popularity; translation of Martial, "Epigrams", VI.61
Title: The vanity of authority
Author: Oldham, John
Date(s): 1683 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Lines suggesting that even those in the highest positions of power can be slaves to their passions. Extract from an 'imitation' of Boileau's Satire 8 by John Oldham.
Title: A query to a dull author. An epigram
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: N; The London magazine
Date(s): 1775 (published) ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Satirical epigram on a tedious writer
Title: To the author of a poem entituled Successio
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Satire on the dullness and small literary ability of Elkanah Settle
Title: To the author of The Night Thoughts
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: On the value of Edward Young's "Complaint, or Night Thoughts" as a guide
through life
Title: To the author of Night Thoughts
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: In praise of Edward Young's "Complaint, or Night Thoughts", comparing the
inspirational guidance of his sequence of 'nights' with the importance of
night in God's original creation
Title: Verses on the author's birthday
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Phocion
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, birthday reflections on the past and the unknowable future,
hoping for God's guidance through the remainder of life
Title: To the author of the Essays upon Man
Author: Somervile, William
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 72
Contents: In praise of the combination of wisdom, ethics and poetry in Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, and for its teaching mankind the nature of God's works
Title: To the author of the Satyr Against Wit
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Apparently a reply to John Donne's 'Satire II', addressed to a doctor. Asserts that Donne's satire is fit only to be food for rats, but that it will kill the rats that eat it.
Title: To a lady, the author of the Tunbridge Prodigy
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1704 ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: In praise of the lady's poem, claiming that its writer exceeds men in the excellence of her poetry. Includes references to Buckworth and to George Granville. Published in 1716.