Selected Contents by Theme. Alphabetical List of Authors. Abbreviations. Introduction. A Note for Teachers. Editorial Principles. Inventory of Manuscripts. Acknowledgements. Richard Price (1723-91): From A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1789): [On Representation] (pp. 40-2). [Prospects for Reform] (pp. 49-51). Thomas Warton (1728-90): From Poems (1777): Sonnet IX. To the River London. Edmund Burke (1729-97): From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757): Part II, Section iii. Obscurity (pp. 43-5); From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790): [On Englishness] (pp. 127-30). [Society is a Contract] (pp. 143-7). William Cowper (1731-1800): From The Task (1785): [Crazy Kate] (Book I). [On Slavery] (Book II). [The Winter Evening] (Book IV). From Works ed. Robert Southey (15 vols., 1835-7): Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or The Slave-Trader in the Dumps (composed 1788). Thomas Paine (1737-1809): From Common Sense (Philadelphia, 1776): Of the Origin and Design of Government in General (pp. 1-2). From The Rights of Man Part I (1791): [Freedom of Posterity] (pp. 8-10). [On Revolution] (pp. 156-9). From The Rights of Man Part II (1792): [Republicanism] (pp. 22-3, 24). Anna Seward (1742-1809): From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796): To Time Past. Written Dec. 1772. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) (1743-1825): From Poems (1773): A Summer Evening's Meditation. From Poems (1792): Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade. From Works (1825): The Rights of Woman (composed c.1795). From The Monthly Magazine 7 (1799) 231-2: To Mr Coleridge (composed c.1797). Hannah More (1745-1833): From Sacred Dramas: chiefly intended for young persons: the subjects taken from the Bible. To which is added, Sensibility, A Poem (1782): Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs Boscawen (extract). Cheap Repository: The Sorrows of Yamba, or the Negro Woman's Lamentation (c.1795). Charlotte Smith (nee Turner) (1749-1806): From Elegiac Sonnets (1784): Sonnet V. To the South Downs. From Elegiac Sonnets: the third edition. With twenty additional sonnets. (1786): Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun, October 1785. George Crabbe (1754-1832): From The Borough (1810): Letter XXII: The Poor of the Borough. Peter Grimes. George Dyer (1755-1841): From The Complaints of the Poor People of England (1793): [The Injustice of the Law] (pp. 55-8). ['In deep distress, I cried to God'] (edited from MS). William Godwin (1756-1836): From Political Justice (2 vols., 1793): [On Property] (ii 806-7). [Love of Justice] (ii 808). [On Marriage] (ii 849-52). Ann Yearsley (nee Cromartie) (1756-1806): From A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade (1788): William Blake (1757-1827): All Religions Are One (composed c.1788). There is no Natural Religion (composed c.1788). The Book of Thel (1789). Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789-9... (Part Contents).
