Restoration & Augustan
Edward Young
Edward Young (1683–1765) was born in Hampshire and educated at Oxford, where he became a fellow of All Souls. He made his name with a poem on the Last Judgment, a series of satires called The Love of Fame, and some tragedies, and took holy orders in middle age, becoming rector of Welwyn in Hertfordshire in 1730.
His blank-verse The Complaint, or Night Thoughts (1742–1745), a long meditation in nine Nights on life, death and immortality, was one of the most widely read poems in Europe in the later eighteenth century. William Blake made a famous series of designs for it.
Poems (27)
- Night Thoughts, Night the First: On Life, Death, and Immortality
- Night Thoughts, Night the Second: On Time, Death, and Friendship
- Night Thoughts, Night the Third: Narcissa
- Night Thoughts, Night the Fourth: The Christian Triumph
- Night Thoughts, Night the Fifth: The Relapse
- The Last Day, Book I
- The Last Day, Book II
- The Last Day, Book III
- The Love of Fame, Satire I
- The Love of Fame, Satire II
- The Love of Fame, Satire III
- The Love of Fame, Satire IV
- The Love of Fame, Satire V
- The Love of Fame, Satire VI
- The Love of Fame, Satire VII
- Ocean: An Ode
- A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job
- To Mr. Addison, on the Tragedy of Cato
- A Letter to Mr. Tickell, Occasioned by the Death of Addison
- Resignation, Part I
- Resignation, Part II
- Two Epistles to Mr. Pope, Epistle I
- Two Epistles to Mr. Pope, Epistle II
- Night Thoughts, Night the Sixth: The Infidel Reclaimed, Part I
- Night Thoughts, Night the Seventh: The Infidel Reclaimed, Part II
- Night Thoughts, Night the Eighth: Virtue's Apology
- Night Thoughts, Night the Ninth: The Consolation