Author:Edward Young

Edward Young
(1683–1765)

Edward Young

Works

Books

• An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Lansdown (1713)
• The Last Day (1714)
• The Force of Religion, or Vanquished Love: a poem in two books (1714)
• On the late Queen's Death and his Majesty's Accession (1714)
• Oratio … cum jacta sunt Bibliothecæ Fundamenta (1716)
• Paraphrase on part of the Book of Job (1719)
• Busiris, King of Egypt: a Tragedy (1719)
• A Letter to Mr. Tickell, occasioned by the Death of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; (1719)
• The Revenge: a Tragedy (1721)
• The Love of Fame, in seven characteristic satires (1728)
• The Instalment (1726)
• Cynthio (1727)
• Ocean: an Ode, to which is prefixed an Ode to the King and a Discourse on Ode (1728)
• A Vindication of Providence; or a true Estimate of Human Life (1728)
• An Apology for Princes (1729)
• Imperium Pelagi: a naval lyric written in imitation of Pindar's spirit, occasioned by his Majesty's return in September 1729 (1730)
• Two Epistles to Mr. Pope, Concerning the Authors of the Age (1730)
• The Sea-piece (1730)
• The Foreign Address … in the Character of a Sailor (1734)
• The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality (1742, First four ‘Nights’: 1743, fifth: 1744, sixth and seventh: 1745, eighth and ninth) (transcription project)
• Reflections on the Public Situation of the Kingdom (1745)
• The Brothers: a Tragedy (1753) (external scan)
• The Centaur not Fabulous (1754)
• Conjectures on Original Composition (1759)
• Resignation, in two parts, and a postscript to Mrs. Boscawen (1762)

Other

• Testimonies Respecting the Character of Dr. Swift

Works about Young

• "Young" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, pp.315-396.
• "Young, Edward," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Young, Edward," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 24) (1888)
• "Young, Edward," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Young, Edward," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Young, Edward," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

Parodies of Young

• "Imitation IV", in A Pipe of Tobacco (1736) by Isaac Hawkins Browne