James Beattie

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• ELEGY. OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF A LADY. ()
• THE HERMIT. ()
• RETIREMENT. AN ODE. ()
• THE TRIUMPH OF MELANCHOLY. ()

• Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. III. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1136; OTA K093079.003)
  • THE HERMIT.
• Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. IV. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1137; OTA K093079.004)
  • RETIREMENT. AN ODE.
  • THE TRIUMPH OF MELANCHOLY.
  • ELEGY. OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF A LADY.

Source editions

• Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. III. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1136; OTA K093079.003)
• Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. IV. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1137; OTA K093079.004)

Bibliography

DMI 1282; ODNB 1831; NCBEL 640-641; DLB 109

Biography

• King, Everard H. James Beattie. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977. 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. 17-18. Print.
• Radcliffe, David H., ed. James Beattie (1735-1803). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=33154.
• Watt, Julie. "James Beattie (1735-1803)". British Abolitionists, ed. Brycchan Carey, 2006. Web. 8 Nov. 2016. http://www.brycchancarey.com/abolition/beattie.htm.

Criticism

• Brunstrom, Conrad. James Beattie and the Great Outdoors: Common Sense Philosophy and the Pious Imagination. Romanticism 3 (1997): 20-34. Print.