Volume 5 of a 5-vol. set. Includes indexes to all five vols. Includes Thomas Hardy's biographical summary and critical introduction of poems by William Barnes

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- William Walsh (1663-1708) -- William Congreve (1670-1729) -- Sir Samuel Garth (1660-1718) -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Lady Winchilsea (1660 about, - 1720) -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Ambrose Philips (1671-1749) -- Thomas Parnell (1679-1718) -- John Gay (1688-1732) -- Thomas Tickell (1688-1740) -- Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) -- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- John Armstrong (1709-1779) -- William Somerville (1677-1742) -- Matthew Green (1677-1742) -- John Dyer (1698?-1758) -- Robert Blair (1699-1759) -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- John Byrom (1691-1763) -- Richard Glover (1712-1785) -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -- John Wesley (1703-1791) -- William Shenstone (1714-1763) -- William Collins (1721-1759) -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- William Whitehead (1715-1785) -- Mark Akenside (1721-1770) -- Christopher Smart (1722-1770) -- William Falconer (1732-1769) -- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) -- Thomas Warton (1728-1790) -- Charles Churchill (1731-1764) -- James Brattie (1735-1803) -- Thomas Chatterton (1752-1803) -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Scotch minor song-writers, Eighteenth Century -- Robert Fergusson (1750-1774) -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Caroline Oliphant, Baroness Nairn (1766-1845) -- Mrs. Barbauld (1743-1825) -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- William Blake (1757-1827)