1741 (_circa_): Boyse: "Vision of Patience."
1742: Shenstone: "The Schoolmistress." 1742-50: Cambridge: "Archimage."
1742: Dodsley: "Pain and Patience." 1743: Anon.: "Albion's Triumph."
1744 (_circa_): Dodsley: "Death of Mr. Pope." 1744: Akenside: "Ode to
Curio." 1746: Blacklock: "Hymn to Divine Love," "Philantheus." 1747:
Mason: Stanzas in "Musaeus." 1747: Ridley: "Psyche." 1747: Lowth:
"Choice of Hercules." 1747: Upton: "A New Canto of Spenser's Fairy
Queen." 1747: Bedingfield: "Education of Achilles." 1747: Pitt: "The
Jordan." 1748: T. Warton, Sr.: "Philander." 1748: Thomson: "The Castle
of Indolence." 1749: Potter: "A Farewell Hymn to the Country." 1750: T.
Warton: "Morning." 1751: West: "Education." 1751: T. Warton: "Elegy on
the Death of Prince Frederick." 1751: Mendes: "The Seasons," 1751:
Lloyd: "Progress of Envy." 1751: Akenside: "Ode." 1751: Smith:
"Thales." 1753: T. Warton: "A Pastoral in the Manner of Spenser." 1754:
Denton: "Immortality." 1755: Arnold: "The Mirror." 1748-58: Mendez:
"Squire of Dames." 1756: Smart: "Hymn to the Supreme Being." 1757:
Thompson: "The Nativity," "Hymn to May." 1758: Akenside: "To Country
Gentlemen of England." 1759: Wilkie: "A Dream" 1759: Poem in "Ralph's
Miscellany." 1762: Denton: "House of Superstition." 1767: Mickle: "The
Concubine." 1768: Downman: "Land of the Muses." 1771-74: Beattie: "The
Ministrel." 1775: Anon.: "Land of Liberty." 1775: Mickle: Stanzas from
"Introduction to the Lusiad."

[25] See Phelps, pp. 66-68.

[26] See the sumptuous edition of Cambridge's "Works," issued by his son
in 1803.

[27] "Mr. Walpole and I have frequently wondered you should never mention
a certain imitation of Spenser, published last year by a namesake of
yours, with which we are all enraptured and enmarvelled."--_Letter form
Gray to Richard West_, Florence, July 16, 1740. There was no
relationship between Gilbert West and Gray's Eton friend, though it seems
that the former was also an Etonian, and was afterwards at Oxford,
"whence he was seduced to a more airy mode of life," says Dr. Johnson,
"by a commission in a troop of horse, procured him by his uncle."
Cambridge, however, was an acquaintance of Gray, Walpole, and Richard
West, at Eton. Gray's solitary sonnet was composed upon the death of
Richard West in 1742; and it is worth noting that the introduction to
Cambridge's works are a number of sonnets by his friend Thomas Edwards,
himself a Spens