Poetry Codex

Restoration & Augustan

Thomas Hull

1728–1808

Thomas Hull (1728–1808) was an English actor and dramatist, long associated with the Covent Garden theatre. Alongside his stage work, which included plays such as The Fairy Favour and Henry the Second, he published verse: A Collection of Poems and Translations, in English and Latin (printed at Bath, 1758), the legendary tale Richard Plantagenet (1774) and, late in life, two volumes of Moral Tales in Verse, Founded on Real Events (1797).

This selection gives his English verse only: the odes, songs, paraphrases and imitations of 1758 (his Latin poems and the Latin versions printed beside them are left out), the single-part moral tales and the verse addresses and introductions of 1797. His multi-part tales (Foscue, Alleyne, Cadwal, Edward and Orra) and Richard Plantagenet are placed in the Works section. Texts come from early printed editions via ECCO-TCP, with the long s modernised.

Major Works (5)

  1. The Tale of Alleyne — Verse tale in two parts, 1797
  2. The Tale of Cadwal — Verse tale in two parts, 1797
  3. The Tale of Edward and Orra — Verse tale in four parts, 1797
  4. The Tale of Foscue — Narrative poem, in the manner of the old English ballad, 1797
  5. Richard Plantagenet — Narrative poem, 1774

Poems (43)

  1. Ode to Expectation
  2. Song (“Long at thy Altar, God of Love”)
  3. Imitation of Part of the 3d Epode of Horace
  4. Song, to Miss K—— B—— in Dublin
  5. To a Friend on his Marriage
  6. Ode (“Young Corydon for lovely Phyllis burn’d”)
  7. A Paraphrase on Psalm 46
  8. Pastoral
  9. The Tenth Ode of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated
  10. A Card to Venus
  11. To Amasia, with a Fan
  12. To the Same (Amasia)
  13. Ode to Cupid
  14. Psalm 57, Paraphras’d
  15. Lavinia to Aegisthus
  16. Epitaph
  17. To Aspasia, a Birth-Day Ode
  18. To Aspasia, a New-Year’s Ode
  19. Amelia to Eucrates, While on Her Death-Bed
  20. Belvidere, a Poem Addressed to Ethelinda
  21. Address to John Beard, Esq.
  22. Virtue Its Own Reward
  23. Address to * * * * * * * *
  24. Address to Miss M * * * * * * * *
  25. The Tale of Eldred
  26. Address to the Hon. William Keppel, on His Return from the Conquest of the Havannah, in 1762
  27. The Tale of Sir Philip Sidney
  28. Introduction to the Tale of Alleyne
  29. Address to Thomas King, Esq.
  30. The Tale of Alcon
  31. Address to a Departed Friend
  32. The Tale of Alvarez
  33. Address to Theodore Maurice, Esq.
  34. The Tale of Muley-Zeydan
  35. Introduction to the Tale of Cadwal
  36. Address to Mrs. B—
  37. The Tale of Durand
  38. Address to W. Wilberforce, Esq., M.P.
  39. Introduction to the Tale of Edward and Orra
  40. Address to Maria
  41. The Tale of Raymond
  42. Introduction to The Advantages of Repentance
  43. The Advantages of Repentance

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