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CARR, W. W. Poems on Various Subjects, 1791, prefatory, and pp.
93-107. 14: 11 P., 3 Ir. (1 partly octosyllabic).

H., S. Conjugal Love, Camb., 1772. Contains sonnets: see Lofft's
Laura, no. 912.

MICKLE, W. J. Chalmers's English Poets, xvii. 540, 554-5. 3
(2 trans.): 1 P., 2 Ir.

HENLEY, S. Nathaniel Tucker's Bermudian, 1774, prefatory. I Ir. COLLINS, JOHN. Letter to George Hardinge, 1777, p. 39. 1 Ir. DUNSTER, CHARLES. Poems by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall, 1792, i. 183-5; S. E. Brydges's Censura Literaria, 1808, vi. 414-15; Gent. Mag., lxv. 328. 5(1 trans.): 2 P., 3 Ir. (1 in blank verse).

ANON. Sonnets, 1776.

MORE, HANNAH. Memoirs, ed. W. Roberts, N. Y., 1836, i. 50. I Ir. (sixteen lines).

BOOTHBY, Sir BROOKE. Sorrows, sacred to Penelope, 1796 (contains 24 sonnets, 5 of which, including 4 translations, are in Lofft's Laura and 7 others in Henderson's Petrarca); F. N. C. Mundy's Needwood Forest, Lichfield, 1776, app. (1 P.); George Hardinge's Miscellaneous Works, 1818, ii. 18 (1 Ir.). 26 (most of them not seen). CARTWRIGHT, EDMUND. Sonnets to Eminent Men, 1783 (6 Ir.); Letters and Sonnets, 1807; Armine and Elvira, 9th ed., 1804 (contains sonnets, see Mo. Rev., enl., xlvi. 216-17); Prince of Peace, etc., 1779 (contains 2 sonnets, see Mo. Rev., lx. 373-5). Five sonnets (1 P., 4 Ir.) are printed in Lofft's Laura. HARDINGE, GEORGE. Miscellaneous Works, 1818, ii. 3-28, 185, 436, 440, 442. 52 (24 trans.): 34 P., 18 Ir. (All but two are called sonnets. Of the 18 irregular ones, 10 have more or less than fourteen lines and 2 are in lines of seven syllables; 4 are in couplets, several other poems in fourteen lines and couplets, though not called sonnets, are in no way different from these four, and 4 have a couplet-ending added to the regular Petrarchan rime-scheme.) ANON. Sonnets [20] and Odes, translated from Petrarch, 1777. SCHOMBERG, A. C. Bagley, Oxford, 1777, prefatory. 1 P. c.1777? w. 1804 p. JONES, Sir WILLIAM. Works, 1807, ii. 78 n. 1 P. 1777- W.

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ROSCOE, WILLIAM. Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, Liverpool, 1795, i. 113, 114, 261–2, 265, ii. 275; The Nurse, 3d ed., 1800, prefatory; Life of Leo X, Liverpool, 1805, i. 201, 210, 211 n., 282, iv. 207 n.; H. Roscoe's Life of Roscoe, 1833, i. 37, 166–7, 235-6, ii. 73, 82, 85, 222, 237-8, 301-2; W. W. Currie's Memoir of James Currie, 1831, i. 150. 21 (10 trans.): 6 P., 1 S., 14 Ir.

1777- W. 1785- p. POLWHELE, RICHARD. Poems by Gentlemen of Devonshire, etc., 1792, ii. 194-203; Sketches in Verse, 1796, pp. 67-71, 74-80; Influence of Local Attachment, etc., new ed., 1798, ii. 55-8, 62-3, 67, 69-70, 73, 104-5, 108; Grecian Prospects, Helston, 1799, pp. i-ii; Poems, Truro, 1810, ii. 50-61, 73; Traditions and Recollections, 1826, i. 156, 176–7, ii. 635, 688-9, 699; Reminiscences, 1836, vol. i, pp. vi-vii, 15, vol. iii. 154-6, 163; P. L. Courtier's Pleasures of Solitude, etc., 3d ed., 1804, p. 7; S. J. Pratt's Harvest-Home, 1805, iii. 498-9; Europ. Mag., xxviii. 331. 60: 3 P., 17 S. (3'octosyllabic), 40 Ir. (5 in blank verse, 1 in Alexandrine couplets, I partly octosyllabic). Polwhele also wrote Pictures from Nature in Nineteen Sonnets, 2d ed., 1786(?); Poems, 1788, which include 20 sonnets; and Poetic Trifles, 1796, which contain sonnets (see Mo. Rev., enl., xxi. 463-4).

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JACKSON, WILLIAM. Nichols's Collection, 1781, vii. 341-3; Freeman's
Kentish Poets, 1821, ii. 403-8. 12 (3 trans.): 1 P., 4 S., 7 Ir.

"A GENTLEMAN OF OXFORD." Academic Trifles, 1778. Contains 2
sonnets in blank verse: see Crit. Rev., xlvi. 68.

HOLMES, ROBERT. Alfred, with Six Sonnets, Oxford, 1778, pp. 21–8. 2 P., 4 Ir.

PEARCE, WILLIAM. The Haunts of Shakespeare, 1778, p. 26. 1 Ir. ("collected from Shakespeare").

1778 w. 1789 p. LETTICE, JOHN. Poetry of the World, 1791, iv. 5-6. 1 Ir. 1778 w. bef.1821 p. SIX, JAMES. Freeman's Kentish Poets, 1821, ii. 425-6. 3 P. 1778-92 BAMPFYLDE, JOHN. Sixteen Sonnets, 1778. (Four of these and one new sonnet are printed in Poems by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall, 1792, i. 177-81; three more, apparently never printed, are in the Harvard Bampfylde MS.) 20: 4 P., 16 Ir. 1779-1805w. 1781- p. HAYLEY, WILLIAM. Poems and Plays, new ed., 1788, i. 161–71, iv. 29, 93, 189, 219, 221, v. 90, vi. 4; Triumph of Music, Chichester, 1804, pp. 21, 52, 72, 80-83, 85-91, 93-5, 97-9, 100, 101, 132–3, 145; Life of G. Romney, Chichester, 1809, pp. 99-100, 159-60, 235-6, 292; Memoirs, ed. J. Johnson, 1823, i. 427-8, ii. 12-13, 15-17, 22, 38, 43, 84, 94, 97, 102; Memoirs of T. A. Hayley, by J. Johnson, 1823, pp. 192-3, 211-12, 226, 250, 308, 324, 334-5, 425-6, 454-5, 471-2, 477– 87, 492, 496-7; H. Roscoe's Life of William Roscoe, 1833, i. 244; Poetical Register for 1804, 2d ed., 1806, p. 377. 89 (5 trans.): 13 P., 76 Ir. (Hayley's Essay on Sculpture, 1800, contains one or more sonnets: see Johnson, above, ii. 14).

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ANON. An Idle Hour's Amusement: Poems, Sonnets, etc., 1780.
KETT, HENRY. Juvenile Poems, Oxford, 1793, pp. 16-27, 43-4. 14 Ir.
ANON. The Bevy of Beauties: [24] Sonnets, 1781.
H., S. Nichols's Collection, 1781, vii. 343-4. I S.
PINKERTON, JOHN.
BRADFORD, A. M.
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Rimes, 2d ed., 1782, pp. 217-26. 5 Ir. (1 trans.).
Downman's Poems to Thespia, 1791, pp. 187-8.

COLE, J. Ib. 189. 1 S.

PRESTON, WILLIAM. Poetical Works, Dublin, 1793, vol. i, pp. v, 25594. 27 (5 trans.): 9 P., 18 Ir.

ANON. W. Hayley's Essay on Poetry, 1782, p. 249. 2 (trans.): 1 P., 1 S.

BURNEY, CHARLES. General History of Music, 1782, ii. 334-5. 2 P. (trans.).

STERLING, JOSEPH. Poems, Dublin, 1782, pp. 2, 29, 109–119. 13: 6 S., 4 Sp., 3 Ir.

WARWICK, THOMAS. Abelard to Eloisa, 1783 (contains at least 13 sonnets, see Mo. Rev., lxxii. 147-9, most of which seem to be reprinted in Poems by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall, ii. 212-22); Univ. Mag., lxxi. 219, lxxiv. 395, lxxv. 334. At least 16 Ir. (2 trans.).

1782-1823w. 1785- p. BRYDGES, EGERTON. Poems, 4th ed., 1807, pp. 3-47; Censura Literaria, 1807-9, iii, prefatory, iv. 204-5, vi. 99, 402-3, 419; vii, pp. v-vi; x. 85; Five Sonnets to Wootton (Kent, 1819), pp. 3–7; Gnomica (Geneva, 1824), pp. 242–3, 295, 312–13. 65 (1 trans.): 15 P., 5 S., 45 Ir. WILLIAMS, HELEN MARIA. Poems, 2d ed., 1791, i. 53-8, ii. 21–8; Paul and Virginia, translated, 1795, pp. 33, 53, 78, 91, 105, 113, 200, 202. 13: 8 P., 2 S., 3 Ir. (The novel, Julia, 1790, also contains sonnets: see New Annual Reg., 1790, p. [179].)

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STEVENS, W. B. Stebbing Shaw's Staffordshire, 1798, i. 343-4; Gent.
Mag., lvi. 427, lxvi. 421. 4 (1 trans.): 2 S., 2 Ir. (1 in eighteen
lines).

LIPSCOMB, WILLIAM. Poems, [with] Translations of [23] Select Italian
Sonnets, Oxford, 1784.

ROBERTSON, DAVID. Poems, Edin., 1784. Probably contains the ir-
regular sonnet in Univ. Mag., lxxiv. 35.

SMITH, CHARLOTTE. Elegiac Sonnets, etc., 8th ed., 1797-1800, i. 1–59, ii. 1-33; Univ. Mag., lxxxiv. 331; Henderson's Petrarca, 1803, p. 52. 94: (5 trans.): 2 P., 40 S., 1 Sp., 51 Ir.

TYTLER, A. F., Lord WOODHOUSLEE. Historical and Critical Essay on Petrarch, with a Translation of a few of his Sonnets, Edin., 1810, pp. 62-3 n., 107-8, 201-2, 255-69. 15 (trans.): 4 S., 11 Ir. (1 in fifteen lines; I in twenty lines, seven of which have only six syllables each; 3 in blank verse).

BLACK, JOHN. The Vale of Innocence, and Sonnets, Woodbridge, 1785. (Several sonnets by Black, some of later date, are printed in Lofft's Laura.)

GREATHEED, BERTIE. The Florence Miscellany, Florence (Italy), 1785, p. 80. I P.

KNIGHT, SAMUEL. Elegies and Sonnets, 1785.

MERRY, ROBERT. The Florence Miscellany, 91. 1 P. (trans.). PARSONS, WILLIAM. Ib. 31, 74, 89; Ode to a Boy at Eton, with three Sonnets, 1796, pp. 3, 19, 20; Europ. Mag., xxi. 222. 7 (2 trans.): 1 P., 3 S., 3 Ir. (Parsons's Poetical Tour, 1787, also contains sonnets: see Crit. Rev., lxiv. 225.)

DRUMMOND, G. H. Poems [= Verses Social and Domestic, Edin., 1802 ?]. Contains sonnets: see Lofft's Laura, nos. 222-3, 297.

1785?-1838w. 1788- p. BOWLES, W. L. Works, ed. Gilfillan, Edin., 1855, i. 7–31, ii. 145, 323, 324, 327, 328; Gent. Mag., new series, x. 44. 50: 2 P., 48 Ir. (1 in thirteen lines, 2 in fifteen).

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ANON. Jens Wolff's Sketches and Observations, 1801. I Ir.: see Mo.
Rev., enl., xl. 366–7.

ANON. Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, 1786, ii. 24–9. 6 (1 trans.): 5 P.,
I Ir.

HEADLEY, HENRY. Poetical Works, ed. T. Park, 1808, p. 23. I S.
PYE, H. J. Poems on Various Subjects, 1787, vol. i, pp. iii-iv; Verses
on Several Subjects, 1802, pp. 71-3; S. J. Pratt's Harvest-Home,
1805, iii. 229, 233, 254; Lofft's Laura, no. 273; Gent. Mag., lxxv.
592. 8 (1 trans.): 6 P., 1 S., 1 Ir.

RANNIE (or RENNIE?), JOHN. Poems, 1789 (contains sonnets, see Crit.
Rev., lxvii. 553); Poetry of the World, 1791, iii. 130; Europ. Mag.,
xvii. 232-3, xviii. 70–71, 220; Scots Mag., lii. 302; Edin. Mag.,
March, 1792, p. 460. 12: 11 S., 1 Ir.

1786-92w. 1787- p. WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Poetical Works, ed. Knight, 1896, i. 3-4; viii. 209-10, 214-15. 3: 1 S., 2 Ir. (As Wordsworth's 520 sonnets written after 1800 are of a later type, they are not included here.) 1786-1800w. 1789- p. ROBINSON, MARY. Works, 1806, iii. 63-126 (62, of which the 43 in the sequence "Sappho and Phaon, in a series of Legitimate Sonnets," and 3 others, are P., 3 S., the rest Ir.); Poems, 1791, pp. 172, 173, 174, 177, 179, 185; Memoirs, 1801, iii. 92; M. E. Robinson's Shrine of Bertha, 1794, i. 133; Univ. Mag., xciii. 300. 71: 46 P., 5 S., 20 Ir.

1786-1833w. 1794- p. Coleridge, S. T. Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge, Oxford, 1912, i. 5, 9-10, 11-12, 16-17, 20, 21, 29, 37, 47-8, 71, 72–3, 79–90, 93, 152–5, 209–11, 236, 361–2, 392–3, 402–3, 429, 435, 447, 459-60, 490. 46 (1 trans.): 1 P., 9 S., 36 Ir. (2 mainly in couplets, I mainly octosyllabic). The Bala Hill and Faded Flower sonnets (pp. 56, 70), usually printed as Coleridge's, are counted as Southey's; "Pale Roamer" (p. 71) is counted as Coleridge's; the two poems on pantisocracy (pp. 68-9), of uncertain authorship, are not counted anywhere.

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B-o, J. Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, 1789, iii. 215. I Ir. (sixteen
lines).

CUNNINGHAM, PETER. Anna Seward's Letters, 1811, i. 291–2 n. 1 S.
ANON. (chiefly "BENEDICT"). Poetry of the World, 1788, ii. 122-32.
II Ir.

REID, W. H. Poems (posthumous, date unknown). Probably includes
the following sonnets: Univ. Mag., lxxx. 264-5, lxxxi. 44, 208, 366,
lxxxii. 98, 211; Gent. Mag., lvii. 626, lix. 258, 353, 555, lx. 450, 555,
lxi. 759, 856, lxiii. 360; Scots. Mag., lii. 89; Europ. Mag., xviii. 223;
Literary Mag. and British Rev., August, 1790, p. 148. 21 (3 trans.):
7 S., 14 Ir.

WHITEHOUSE, JOHN. Poems, 1787, pp. 81-9; Poetical Register for 1804, 2d ed., 1806, pp. 155, 159. 11: 4 P., 7 Ir. (4 in couplets, 2 in blank verse).

THELWALL, JOHN. Poems on Various Subjects, 1787, ii. 173; Poems written in the Tower, 1795, pp. 1-12; Poems written in Retirement, Hereford, 1801, p. 101; Poetical Recreations, 1822, pp. 44, 143, 184-5, 228-9. 20: 3 S., 17 Ir. (1 in fifteen lines, I octosyllabic). RUSSELL, THOMAS. Sonnets, etc., Oxford, 1789, pp. 1–27. 23(6 trans.): 9 P., 3 S., 11 Ir.

BROWN, JAMES. Original Poems, Sonnets, etc., 1788.

DAY, J. William Upton's Poems on Several Occasions, 1788, pp. 187– 8. I S.

UPTON, WILLIAM. Poems on Several Occasions, 1788, pp. 62-3, 94-5, 112-13, 122-5, 222-5, 231-2. 8 S. (1 octosyllabic).

LISTER, THOMAS. Anna Seward's Letters, ii. 171, 279; H. Cary's Memoir of H. F. Cary, 1847, i. 16; Gent. Mag., lix. 841. 4: 1 P., 2 Ir., I not seen.

WESTON, JOSEPH. H. Cary's Memoir of H. F. Cary, i. 13-14; Gent. Mag., lviii. 1008, lxi. 660, 760; Europ. Mag., xxvi. 366. 6 (1 trans.): 3 P., 3 Ir. (May be included in the pieces that Weston published with "Mrs. Pickering's" poems, 1794.)

BELOE, WILLIAM. Poems, 1788, pp. 35-48; Miscellanies, 1795, i. 65–71. 14 (2 trans.): 9 S., 5 Ir.

1788- w. 1794- p. PENN, JOHN. Poems, 1801, i. 38–42; ii. 245–9, 250, 253-7, 264–70, 275-82, 289-90. 25 (23 trans.): 16 P., 9 Ir.

1788-93w. 1792- p. CowPER, WILLIAM. Poems, ed. J. C. Bailey, 1905, pp. 445, 459, 489-90, 492, 494-5, 499, 597-9. 14(5 trans.): 1 P., 13 Ir. (1 in couplets).

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PARK, THOMAS. Sonnets, etc., 1797, pp. i, 1–30; Anna Seward's Original Sonnets, 1799, p. vii; Mo. Mirror, ix. 362, xv. 47, xix. 268, xxii. 196; Poetical Register for 1804, 2d ed., 1806, p. 152; Park's edition of T. Russell's Poems, 1808, prefatory; Kirke White's Remains, 1811, i. 304-5; Lofft's Laura, 1813, no. 291; S. E. Brydges's Miscellaneous Articles, Kent, c. 1815 (2 sonnets, near the end); Robert Bloomfield's Remains, 1824, i. 185-6. 43 (1 trans.): 3 P., 10 S., 30 Ir.

1788-1844 W. CARY, H. F. Sonnets and Odes, 1788, pp. 7-34; Memoir, ed. H. Cary, 1847, i. 16, 23, 26, 30, 35, 37, 69, 96, ii. 6, 308–9; Gent. Mag., lix. 257, 553. In the prefatory life and the footnotes to the 1819 edition of his Dante are translations of 12 Italian sonnets, and in S. Waddington's Sonnets of Europe, 1886, pp. 87, 118, 137-9, are translations of one more Italian and 4 French sonnets. 58 (20 trans.): 36 P., 2 Sp., 20 Ir. (Two translations from the Italian, mentioned in the Memoir, i. 109, I have not seen.)

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ANON. The Garland, 1789. Contains sonnets: see Mo. Rev., lxxx. 366. ANON. Sonnets, 1789. Contains 60 sonnets, apparently Petrarchan: see Mo. Rev., lxxxi. 366.

GROOMBRIDGE, WILLIAM. Sonnets, Canterbury, 1789.

EMETT, S. Poems by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall, 1792, i. 186-92, ii. 193. 8 S.

FANSHAWE, C. M. Literary Remains, 1876, p. 79. I S.

BURNS, ROBERT. Complete Works, Cambridge (U. S. A.) ed., pp. 144, 178, 179-80. 4 Ir. (1 in couplets).

1789-1823W. 1791- p. RADCLIFFE, ANN. Romance of the Forest, chs. iii, xviii (xvii in some editions); Mysteries of Udolpho, chs. i, viii (or ix), lii (or li); Poems, 1816, p. 115; Miscellaneous Poems, appended to St. Alban's Abbey, 1826, p. 231; Lofft's Laura, no. 365. 8: 3 S., 5 Ir. (The novels contain eight or ten other poems of varying length and rimescheme, which are usually termed sonnets.)

c.1789-1802w. 1789?- p. DERMODY, THOMAS. Poems, 1800, pp. 3, 102-4, 109; Life, by J. G. Raymond, 1806, ii. 206–7, 209-10, 314-15; Mo. Mirror, ix. 236; Anthologia Hibernica, 1793, i. 225; Lofft's Laura, no. 953. 14: 7 S., 7 Ir. (all called sonnets, but six are in more than fourteen lines).

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ANON. Sonnets to Eliza, 1790. Most of these have twenty or twentyfour lines, and are irregular in rime (see Crit. Rev., lxix. 591-2), but some may be true sonnets.

"JUNIA." Poetry of the World, 1791, iii. 181. I S.

PEARSON, SUSANNA. Poems, Sheffield, 1790. Contains at least 3 son-
nets: see Mo. Rev., enl., iv. 579; New Annual Reg., 1790, pp.
[178-9]; Univ. Mag., lxxxix. 218.

SHILLITO, CHARLES. A Sonnet, supposed to have been written by Mary
Queen of Scots, translated, 1790.

ARMSTRONG, JOHN ("ALBERT"). Sonnets from Shakespeare, 1791. Contains 3 original sonnets (pp. 1, 44, 45) and 39 passages from Shakespeare's plays arranged in sonnet form. In the Boston Library copy are newspaper clippings of 3 more original sonnets. 45 S. 1790-1803w. 1791- p. SAYERS, FRANK. Poetical Works, 1830, pp. 1, 178–81, 183–5. 8: 2 P., 2 S., 4 Ir.

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SOTHEBY, WILLIAM. Tour through Wales, etc., 1790, pp. 45-59; Saul, 1807, p. 95; Italy, etc., 1828, p. 220 (six other poems, pp. 221-2, 224, 311, 313-14, suggest the sonnet in their rime-scheme, but contain either too many or too few lines). 16: 1 P., 15 Ir. (1 in sixteen lines, called sonnet).

1790-1822W. 1799- p. OPIE, AMELIA. Poems, 1802 (contains at least 3 irregular sonnets, see Lofft's Laura, nos. 86, 290, 293); The Warrior's Return, etc., Phil., 1808, pp. 59-60, 105-6; Madeline, 1822, in Works, Phil., 1853, i. 51, 75; Brightwell's Memorials, Norwich, 1854, pp. 9, 39. At least 10: 5 S., 3 Ir., 2 not seen.

1790-1826 w. TAYLOR, JOHN. Verses on Various Occasions, 1795, pp. 46–9, 135-6; Poems on Various Subjects, 1827, i. 147-210, ii. 66, 253-7; Mrs. Robinson's Memoirs, 1801, iv. 162. 103: 74 P., 26 S., 3 Ir.

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