[ Locke Bibliography ]

Chapter Ten: LITERATURE


1706-1800
1801-1900

1706

Horæ lyricæ. Poems, chiefly of the lyric kind. In two books. I. Songs, &c. sacred to devotion. II. Odes, elegys, &c. to vertue loyalty and friendship. By I. Watts. … London: printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence. 1706. [20], 267, [1] p. 8o.
See “To Mr. John Lock retired from the world of business” (p. 117-118) and “To Mr. John Shute on Mr. Lock’s dangerous sickness sometime after he had retired to study the scriptures. June 1704” (p. 119-120)
Also: The second edition, altered and much enlarged. … London, printed by J. Humfreys, for N. Cliff. 1709. xxviii, 343, [1] p. 8o. See p.165-167; also contains an additional poem: “On Mr. Lock’s annotations upon several parts of the New Testament, left behind him at his death” (p. 205-207)
C 108; A [693]

1709

Death’s vision represented in a philosophical, sacred poem. London: printed for Thomas Guy. 1709. [2], 13, [1], 74, 52 p. 4o.
“Writ at the request of the famous Mr. John Lock”; cites Some familiar letters, p. 218-219 (p. 9)
Another issue: printed for Thomas Parkhurst; also: The second edition. London. Printed for Tho. Varnam. And John Osborn. 1713. [2], 74, 52 p. 4o.

1712

Creation. A philosophical poem. In seven books. By Sir Richard Blackmore … London: printed for S. Buckley; and J. Tonson, 1712. [2], lii, [2], 359, [1] p. 4o.
C 108

1741

Johann Jacob Bodmers Critische Betrachtungen über die poetischen Gemählde der Dichter. Mit einer Vorred von Johann Jakob Breitinger. Zürich, verlegts Conrad Orell und Comp., 1741.
See p. 388ff.

1744

The seasons. By James Thomson. London: printed for A. Millar. 1744.
“Summer” includes a list of England’s great minds; see p. 118.
C 108

1747

Anti-Lucretius, sive De Deo et natura, libri novem. Eminentissimi S.R.E. Cardinalis Melchioris de Polignac opus posthumum. … Parisiis, apud Hippolytum-Ludovicum Guerin, & Jacobum Guerin. 1747. [2], xxx, [4], 180; [4], 181-450 p. 12o.
See p. 217ff.
French translation: L’Anti-Lucrece, poëme sur la réligion naturelle, composé par M. le Cardinal Polignac; traduit par M. de Bougainville – A Bruxelles, chez François Foppens, 1755. 2 vol. 12o. See p. 68-69.
C 108 [Anon.]

1755

L’Anti-Lucrece, poëme sur la réligion naturelle. – See entry for Latin edition (1747)

1782

Poems by William Cowper … London: printed for J. Johnson. 1782.
See “The progress of error” (p. 41-72); Locke mentioned on p. 68.
C 108

1794

A specimen of a commentary on Shakespeare. … London: printed for T. Cadell. 1794. vii, [1], 258, [2] p. 8o.
See “An attempt to explain and illustrate various passages, on a new principle of criticism, derived from Mr. Locke’s doctrine of the association of ideas” (p. 61-258)
Y&Y 1794.2

1836

Verses written in the portico of the Temple of Liberty at Woburn Abbey : on placing before it the statues of Locke and Erskine, in the summer of 1835. – London : printed by James Moyes, 1836. – 39 p.
Preface signed: J.H.W.
C 112; Y&Y 1836.3

1884

“De principiis cogitandi.” // IN: The works of Thomas Gray in prose and verse / edited by Edmund Gosse. – London : Macmillan, 1884. – vol. 1:185-193.
C 108

1907

Dialogues of the dead : and other works in prose and verse / Matthew Prior ; the text edited by A.R. Waller. – Cambridge : University Press, 1907.
See “A dialogue between Mr. John Lock and Seigneur de Montaigne” (p. 223-246) and “Verses intended for Locke and Montaigne” (p. 323); printed from a Longleat manuscript.

1920

“John Locke as a courtly love poet” / H.M. Beatty. // IN: Times literary supplement. – 19 August 1920:536.
Y&Y 1920.2

1925

Origins of Poe’s critical theory / by Margaret Alterton. – Iowa City : The University of Iowa, 1925. – 191 p. – (University of Iowa humanistic studies ; vol. 2, no. 3)
Based on thesis (Ph.D.)–State University of Iowa, 1922.
H&W 1983

1932

“Locke’s Essay concerning human understanding as a partial source of Pope’s ‘Essay on man’ 0 / by Grant McColley. // IN: Open court. – 46 (1932):581-584.
H&W 394; H&W 1983; Y&Y 1932.18

1933

John Locke’s theories of the mind in eighteenth-century literature / by Kenneth MacLean. – Thesis (Ph.D.)–Yale University, 1933. – xx, 179 leaves.
Y&Y 1933.19

1934

“Locke, Hume and Shelley” / by Amiyakumar Sen. // IN: Journal of the Department of Letters, University of Calcutta. – 24 (1934):1-117.
See 2, “Locke and Shelley” (p. 15-39) and 3, “The reaction against Locke” (p. 39-52)
The seventeenth century background : studies in the thought of the age in relation to poetry and religion. – See entry in Chapter 3.

1935

“William Blake and the cosmic nadir.” – See entry in Chapter 3.

1936

John Locke and English literature of the eighteenth century / by Kenneth MacLean. – New Haven : Yale University Press, 1936. – viii, 176 p.
Based on thesis (Ph.D.)–Yale University, 1933.
Reprinted: New York : Garland, 1984. – (The politics of John Locke)
H&W 259; H&W 1983; Y&Y 1936.2, 1962.19; T 301

1937

“Locke, Sterne and Cowper.” // IN: Times literary supplement. – 13 March 1937:186.

1940

The influence of John Locke on French literature of the eighteenth century / Elizabeth A. Von Wiegen. – Thesis (M.A.)–University of Rochester (N.Y.), 1940. – 112 leaves.
B 102; H&W 1983

1942

“The sources, significance, and date of Franklin’s ‘An Arabian tale’ ” / Arthur Stuart Pitt. // IN: Publications of the Modern Language Assocation of America. – 57 (1942):155-168.
B 183; H&W 1983

1943

Tristram Shandy and Locke’s Essay concerning human understanding” / by Vivian H.S. Mercier. // IN: Dublin magazine. – New series:18:no.4 (Oct./Dec. 1943): 32-37.
Y&Y 1943.5
Reprinted in: A Locke miscellany … / edited by Jean S. Yolton (1990). – p. 293-299.

1944

“Edward Young, and Locke’s theory of perception” / R.M.H. // IN: Notes and queries. – 187 (1944):84.
“Edward Young, and Locke’s theory of perception” / Peter Stubbs. // IN: Notes and queries. – 187 (1944):14-15.
H&W 260; Y&Y 1944.1

1946

Newton demands the muse : Newton’s Opticks and the eighteenth century poets / by Marjorie Hope Nicolson. – Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1946. – xi, 177 p. – (History of ideas series ; no. 2)
“John Locke and the Augustan age of literature” / George E. Smock. // IN: Philosophical review. – 55 (1946):264-281.
H&W 260; H&W 1983; Y&Y 1946.5

1949

“Notes on Yeats’s ‘Fragments’ ” / A. Norman Jeffares. // IN: Notes and queries. – 194 (1949):279-280.

1950

“John Locke as literary critic and biblical interpreter” / by Gretchen Graf Pahl. // IN: Essays critical and historical dedicated to Lily B. Campbell / by members of the departments of English, University of California. – Berkeley : University of California Press, 1950. – (University of California publications. English studies ; 1). – p. 137-157, 270-272 [notes]
H&W 261; H&W 1983; Y&Y 1950.12

1952

The place of letters in English thought and criticism between Hobbes and Locke : a study in critical commentary … / by George Gray Falle. – Thesis (Ph.D.)–University of Wisconsin, 1952. – vii, 233 leaves.
See Ch. 1, “Hobbes and Locke” (leaves 1-81 [esp. 55-81])
H&W 1983; Y&Y 1953.4 [sic]

1953

“Smart, Berkeley, the scientists and the poets : a note on eighteenth-century anti-Newtonianism” / by D.J. Greene. // IN: Journal of the history of ideas. – 14 (1953):327-352.

1954

Tristram Shandy’s world : Sterne’s philosophical rhetoric / by John Traugott. – Berkeley : University of California Press, 1954.
See Ch. 1, “The Shandean comic vision of Locke’s philosophy” (p. 3-28); Ch. 2, “Sterne’s use of Locke in character and situation” (p. 29-61) and Ch. 3, “Wit and sentimentalism in the Shandean world” (p. 62-75)
LNL 4:9; H&W 1983

1955

“The Lockean psychology of Tristram Shandy.” – See entry in Chapter 3.

1956

“Gulliver, the Locke-Stillingfleet controversy, and the nature of man.” – See entry in Chapter 3.

1959

An essay on man and ‘the way of ideas’ ” / by Ernest Tuveson. // IN: ELH : a journal of English literary history. – 26 (1959):368-386.
Reviewed by R. Marsh, Philol.Q. 39 (1960):349-351; see also the reply by Tuveson, “An essay on man and ‘the way of ideas’ ” (1961)
LNL 1:8; H&W 1983; Y&Y 1959.31

1960

“Locke and Stevenson on comparative morality” / Merle M. Bevington. // IN: Notes and queries. – 205 (1960):73.
H&W 263; H&W 1983; Y&Y 1960.2
“Gulliver’s tragic rationalism” / Richard J. Dircks. // IN: Criticism. – 2 (1960):134-149.
The imagination as a means of grace : Locke and the aesthetics of Romanticism. – See entry in Chapter 3.