William Shenstone

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• ANACREONTIC, 1738. ()
• ANSWER. ()
• A BALLAD. ()
• The Beau to the Virtuosos; alluding to a Proposal for the Publication of a Set of BUTTERFLIES. ()
• CANDOUR. ()
• The CEREMONIAL. ()
• CLOE to LYSANDER. ()
• The DYING KID. ()
• The EVER-GREEN. ()
• The EXTENT of COOKERY. ()
• In a shady Valley, near a running Water. ()
• Inscription near a Sheep-cote. 1745. ()
• An irregular ODE after SICKNESS, 1749. ()
• LYSANDER to CLOE. ()
• NANCY of the VALE. A BALLAD. ()
• ODE to a Young Lady, Somewhat too sollicitous about her Manner of Expression. ()
• ODE to HEALTH, 1730. ()
• ODE to INDOLENCE, 1750. ()
• ODE to MEMORY. 1748. ()
• ODE. Written 1739. ()
• On a ROOT-HOUSE. ()
• On a small Building in the Gothick Taste. ()
• A Pastoral BALLAD, in Four Parts. Written 1743. ()
• The PRICE of an EQUIPAGE. ()
• The Princess ELIZABETH: A Ballad, alluding to a Story recorded of her, when she was a Prisoner at Woodstock, 1554. ()
• The Progress of ADVICE. A common Case. ()
• The Rape of the TRAP, a BALLAD; written at College, 1736. ()
• RURAL ELEGANCE: An ODE to the late Duchess of SOMERSET. Written 1750. ()
• THE SCHOOL-MISTRESS. A POEM, In Imitation of Spenser. ()
• A SIMILE. ()
• SLENDER's GHOST. ()
• SONG I. ()
• SONG II. The LANDSKIP. ()
• SONG III. ()
• SONG IV. The SKY-LARK. ()
• SONG V. ()
• SONG VI. The Attribute of VENUS. ()
• [Song] I. ()
• [Song] II. DAPHNE'S Visit. ()
• [Song] III. The ROSE-BUD. ()
• [Song] IV. Written in a Collection of Bacchanalian Songs. ()
• [Song] V. Imitated from the FRENCH. ()
• To a LADY of QUALITY, Fitting up her LIBRARY, 1738. ()
• To the Memory of an agreeable LADY bury'd in Marriage to a Person undeserving her. ()
• UPON A VISIT to the same in Winter, 1748. ()
• Upon RIDDLES. ()
• VERSES to a FRIEND. ()
• VERSES written towards the close of the Year 1748, to WILLIAM LYTTELTON, Esq; ()
• Written at an INN on a particular Occasion. ()

• Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.001)
  • THE SCHOOL-MISTRESS. A POEM, In Imitation of Spenser.
• Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. IV. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.004)
  • ODE to MEMORY. 1748.
  • The Princess ELIZABETH: A Ballad, alluding to a Story recorded of her, when she was a Prisoner at Woodstock, 1554.
  • ODE to a Young Lady, Somewhat too sollicitous about her Manner of Expression.
  • VERSES written towards the close of the Year 1748, to WILLIAM LYTTELTON, Esq;
  • [Song] I.
  • [Song] II. DAPHNE'S Visit.
  • [Song] III. The ROSE-BUD.
  • [Song] IV. Written in a Collection of Bacchanalian Songs.
  • [Song] V. Imitated from the FRENCH.
  • On a ROOT-HOUSE.
  • In a shady Valley, near a running Water.
  • On a small Building in the Gothick Taste.
  • A Pastoral BALLAD, in Four Parts. Written 1743.
• Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. V. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.005)
  • RURAL ELEGANCE: An ODE to the late Duchess of SOMERSET. Written 1750.
  • Inscription near a Sheep-cote. 1745.
  • NANCY of the VALE. A BALLAD.
  • ODE to INDOLENCE, 1750.
  • ODE to HEALTH, 1730.
  • To a LADY of QUALITY, Fitting up her LIBRARY, 1738.
  • UPON A VISIT to the same in Winter, 1748.
  • An irregular ODE after SICKNESS, 1749.
  • ANACREONTIC, 1738.
  • ODE. Written 1739.
  • The DYING KID.
  • SONG I.
  • SONG II. The LANDSKIP.
  • SONG III.
  • SONG IV. The SKY-LARK.
  • SONG V.
  • SONG VI. The Attribute of VENUS.
  • The Rape of the TRAP, a BALLAD; written at College, 1736.
  • A SIMILE.
  • The CEREMONIAL.
  • The Beau to the Virtuosos; alluding to a Proposal for the Publication of a Set of BUTTERFLIES.
  • VERSES to a FRIEND.
  • Written at an INN on a particular Occasion.
  • The PRICE of an EQUIPAGE.
  • A BALLAD.
  • The EXTENT of COOKERY.
  • The Progress of ADVICE. A common Case.
  • SLENDER's GHOST.
  • Upon RIDDLES.
• Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. VI. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.006)
  • The EVER-GREEN.
  • ANSWER.
  • CANDOUR.
  • LYSANDER to CLOE.
  • CLOE to LYSANDER.
  • To the Memory of an agreeable LADY bury'd in Marriage to a Person undeserving her.

Source editions

• Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.001)
• Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. IV. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.004)
• Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. V. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.005)
• Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. VI. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758]. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.006)

Bibliography

DMI 2156; ODNB 25321; NCBEL 531; DLB 95

Manuscripts

• Smith, Margaret M. Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Vol. III, 1700-1800 . London: Mansell, 1986-1997. Pt. 3 Pope-Steele. 293-316. Print. 4 volumes.

Editions

• The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; including the Series Edited, with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Dr Samuel Johnson: and the most approved translations. The Additional Lives by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A. Vol. XIII. London: J. Johnson et al., 1810. 255-336. Google Books edition. Web. 13 Feb. 2016. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EWJIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA255
• Williams, Marjorie, ed. The Letters of William Shenstone. Oxford: Blackwell, 1939. Print.

Reference works

• Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 310-311. Print.
• Fairer, David. English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century 1700-1789. Longman Literature in English Series. Harlow: Longman, 2003. 284-285. Print.
• Mell, Jr., Donald C. English Poetry, 1660-1800: a guide to information sources. American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English Information Guide Series, vol. 40. Detroit: Gale, 1982. 352-358. Print.
• Radcliffe, David H., ed. William Shenstone (1714-1763). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=33057.
• Suarez, Michael F. Shenstone, William. A Collection of Poems by Several Hands [1782]. Ed. Robert Dodsley and Michael F. Suarez. Vol. I. London: Routledge/Thoemmes, 1997. 204-207. Print. 6 volumes.

Criticism

• de Bolla, Peter. The Charm'd Eye. Kelly, Veronica, and Dorothea Von Mücke, eds. Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994. 89-111. Print.
• Terry, Richard. Lamb, Shenstone and the Icon of Personality. Charles Lamb Bulletin 76 (1991): 124-32. Print.
• Turner, James G. The Sexual Politics of Landscape: Images of Venus in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry and Landscape Gardening. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 11 (1982): 343-366. Print.