Thomas Paine

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• Accidental Reconciliation From the Castle in the Air to the Little Corner of the World ()
• An Account of the Burning of Bachelor’s Hall ()
• Address to the Great ()
• Anniversary of American Independence July 4 Tune Rule Britannia ()
• The British Constitution ()
• By the Goddess of Plain Truth, A Manifesto and Proclamation ()
• Commentary on the Eastern Wise-Men Travelling to Bethlehem Guided by a Star to See the Little Jesus in a Manger ()
• Contentment, or, If You Please, Confession ()
• Critic and Snow-drop ()
• Curious Story, for the Pennsylvania Magazine ()
• Death of General Wolfe ()
• Give Me Kind Heaven The following lines were written at a tea-table, on the author being asked what kind of woman he should prefer. ()
• The Injur’d Ghost of Liberty ()
• Liberty Tree ()
• Lines, Extempore, by Thomas Paine, July 1803 ()
• The Monk and Jew. A Tale. ()
• The New Covenant From the Castle in the Air to the little Corner of the World. ()
• O What a Pity! ()
• On the Descent upon England, Written at the Desire of a Favourite ()
• Panegyrical Verses, on the Forty-Five Cliffites ()
• Retaliation ()
• The Strange Story of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, Numbers, Chapter XVI. Accounted For. ()
• To Columbia SONG To the Tune of the Anacreontic ()
• To Governor Johnstone ()
• To the King of England Wednesday, November 11th, 1778. ()
• Tommy Titmouse ()
• Untitled ()
• What Is Love? ()

• Cleary, Scott M., ed. Claeys, Gregory, gen. ed. Thomas Paine Collected Writings. Vol. II. Part 2: Poetry. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2026. 5 Volumes.
  • The Injur’d Ghost of Liberty
  • The Monk and Jew. A Tale.
  • Address to the Great
  • Untitled
  • Panegyrical Verses, on the Forty-Five Cliffites
  • Critic and Snow-drop
  • Death of General Wolfe
  • An Account of the Burning of Bachelor’s Hall
  • O What a Pity!
  • Liberty Tree
  • Curious Story, for the Pennsylvania Magazine
  • To Governor Johnstone
  • To the King of England Wednesday, November 11th, 1778.
  • By the Goddess of Plain Truth, A Manifesto and Proclamation
  • Anniversary of American Independence July 4 Tune Rule Britannia
  • Give Me Kind Heaven The following lines were written at a tea-table, on the author being asked what kind of woman he should prefer.
  • To Columbia SONG To the Tune of the Anacreontic
  • The New Covenant From the Castle in the Air to the little Corner of the World.
  • Contentment, or, If You Please, Confession
  • What Is Love?
  • Accidental Reconciliation From the Castle in the Air to the Little Corner of the World
  • Commentary on the Eastern Wise-Men Travelling to Bethlehem Guided by a Star to See the Little Jesus in a Manger
  • On the Descent upon England, Written at the Desire of a Favourite
  • Lines, Extempore, by Thomas Paine, July 1803
  • The Strange Story of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, Numbers, Chapter XVI. Accounted For.
  • The British Constitution
  • Retaliation
  • Tommy Titmouse

Source editions

• Cleary, Scott M., ed. Claeys, Gregory, gen. ed. Thomas Paine Collected Writings. Vol. II. Part 2: Poetry. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2026. 5 Volumes.

Bibliography

ODNB 21133; ANB 1601251

Editions

• Claeys, Gregory, gen. ed. Thomas Paine Collected Writings. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2026. Print. 6 Volumes. [Volume 2 contains Paine's complete poetry, ed. Scott M. Cleary.]
• Foner, Eric, ed. Thomas Paine: Collected Writings. The Library of America. New York, N.Y.: LOA, 1995. Print.

Biography

• Keane, John. Tom Paine: A Political Life. London: Bloomsbury, 2009 [1995]. Print.

Criticism

• Aldridge, A. Owen. The Poetry of Thomas Paine. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1955): 81-99. Print.
• Cleary, Scott M. The Field of Imagination: Thomas Paine and Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. Print.