Philosophy, Theory Anna Laetitia Aikin’s On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror, with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment Anna Letitia Aikin (later Barbauld) and John Aikin 1773 general background link to scan text link to text text
Graveyard Poems James Thomson’s The Seasons James Thomson (1700- 1748) 1730 general background link to text video reading
Parody Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry Martinus Scriblerus (Alexander Pope and his fellow member of the Scriblerus Club: Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Henry St. John and Thomas Parnell) 1727 general background link to scan text