Synopsis
The reputation of Thomas Sheridan has probably suffered from the occasional ridicule of his longtime friend and collaborator Jonathan Swift. Nevertheless, Swift valued Sheridan's wit and company immensely, and the verse-warfares in which the two friends often indulged were not always won by Swift.
Sheridan was not only one of the most memorable Dubliners of the early eighteenth century. Convivial, charming, highspirited, and feckless, he was also a prominent schoolmaster (the best in Europe, according to Swift), cleric, translator, playwright, essayist, and a prolific writer of accomplished light verse. Called Tom Pun-Sibi, or Tom the Punster, because of his droll essay The Art of Punning, he poured forth a seemingly endless stream of punning satires, verse letters to his friends, and satirical observations on the Dublin of his day.
For all of his prolific output, only some of his Swift poems have remained in print, and they are in various editions of Swift's verse. This volume gathers together for the first time Sheridan's complete poetic works, including those published as broadsides or in contemporary journals and those contained in unpublished letters and manuscripts. Of particular interest for such a social poet is the inclusion of poems to and about Sheridan by his many friends and very vocal enemies.
Review
Quilca House To The Dean
From My Much Honored Friend At Heldelville
To Thomas Sheridan
Upon The Author
Prologue To @3hippolytus@1, Spoken By Boy Of Six Years Old
In Pity First To Human Kind
A Receipt To Frighten Away The Dean
A Poem. Or Advice To Authors Of Satirical Poem, Upon Tom Punsibi
A Description In Answer To The Journal, Sels.
With Music And Poetry Equally Blessed
Another Picture Of Dan
Answer
Ballyspellin
Be Still, Thou Busy Foolish Thing
Birthday Poem On Annivrsary Of Birth Of Rev. Dr. Swift
Copy Of A Copy Of Verses From Thomas Sheridan To George Nim-dan-dean
Delany, Most Learned Of Men
A Description Of Doctor Delany's Villa
Drapier's Ballad To Tune Of The London 'prentice
Elegy On Much Lamented Death Of Demar, The Famous Rich Man
Epilogue To @3julius Caesar@1
The Epilogue To A Play Performed At Mr. Sheridan's School
Epitaph
Five Ladies' Answer To The Beau, With Wig And Wings At Head
From Tim And The Fables
From Upon A Certain Bookseller, Or Printer, In Utopia
Good Jonathan, I've Read Your Ditty
Grouse Pouts Are Come In
Grouse Pouts
A Highlander Once Fought A Frenchman At Margate
His Modest Apology For Knocking Out Newsboy's Teeth
How Can I Finish What You Have Begun
Humble Petition Of Stella's Friend (possibly W/delany;others
I Can't But Wonder, Mr. Dean
I Like Your Collyrium
I Send This At Nine
I Wish Your Reverence Were Here To @3hear@1 The Trumpets
I'll Write While I Have Half An Eye In My Head
If These Can't Keep Your Ladies Quiet
Inviation To Dinner From Dr. Sheridan To Dr. Swift, 1727
The Invitation (in Imitation Horace's Epistle To Torquatus)
Joshua Battus' Spepeech To The Paparliament
The Last Speech And Dying Words Of Daniel Jackson
Letter From Cobbler In Patrick's Street To Jet Black
A Letter From Dr. Sheridan To Dr. Swift
A Letter Of Advice To Right Hon. John Earl Of Orrery
Life's Bad On Just A Bit, But
Mr. Sheridan's Prologue To Greek Play Phaedra & Hippolytus
My Hens Are Hatching
My Pedagogue Dear, I Read With Surprise
My Walk It Is Finished
A New Simile For Ladies
New Year's Gift For The Dean Of St. Patrick's
O Would That Enemy I Dread, My Fate
An Ode. To Be Performed At The Castle Of Dublin
On A Caricature
The Original Of Punning (from Plato's Symposiacs)
Our River Is Dry
Palinodia (horace, Book I, Ode Xvi)
The Pedagogue's Answer
Poem Delivered To Rev. Doctor Swift, Dean Of St.patrick's
Prologue Designed For The Play Of @3oedipus@1
Prologue Spoke By Mr. Elrington At The Theatre-royal ... Weavers
Prologue Spoken At Mr. Sheridan's School
Prologue Spoken Before Greek Play At Dr.sheridan's School
A Prologue To A Play Performed At Mr. Sheridan's School
Prologue To Julius Caesar, Acted At Madam Violante's Booth
Prologue To The Farce Of @3punch Turned Schoolmaster@1
Quatrain
Quatrain: Now To Lampoon Myself For My Presumption
A Riddle
The Rivals. Poem, Occasioned By Tom Punsibi, Metamorphosed
A Scribbler From The Northern Bear
Sheridan To Dan Jackson
The Sick Lion And The Ass
So On The Stream The Silver Swan
Some Nymphs May Boast External Grace
The Song
The Tale Of The T -- D
Thus Did Great Socrates Improve The Mind
Thus Puppies That Adore The Dark
To Dean Swift
To George Nim-dan-dean, Upon His Incomparable Verses
To His Excellency Our Lord Carteret, Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland
To Rev. Doctor Swift, Dean Of St. Patrick's. A Birthday Poem
To Right Honorable The Lord Viscount Mont-cassel
To The Author Of 'tom Pun-sibi Metamorphosed'
To The Dean (1)
To The Dean (2)
To The Dean Of St. Patrick's (1)
To The Dean Of St. Patrick's (2)
To The Dean Of St. Patrick's (3)
To The Dean Of St. Patrick's (4)
To The Dean, When In England, In 1726
To The Honorable Mr. D.t.
Tom Punsibi's Letter To Dean Swift
True And Faithful Inventory Of Goods Belonging To Dr. Swift
Upon Stealing A Crown When The Dean Was Asleep
Upon William Tisdall, D.d.
When G--le Has Her Mind At Ease
Why Spatter Me, You Madly Babbling Bard
You Made Me In Your Last A Goose
You Shall Want Nothing Fit For Mortal Man
You That Would Read The Bible
A Satyr, Sels.
From A Letter From D.s.--t To D.s--y
From To Mr. Delany
A Portrait From The Life
To My Learned Friend, Thomas Sheridan
To Quilca; A Country House In No Good Repair
To Thomas Sheridan
Tom Pun-sibi Metamorphosed: Or, The Giber Gibed
From The Critical Minute
Elegy On Deplorable Death Of Mr. Thomas Sheridan
From Epistle In Behalf Our Irish Poets To Right Hon. Lady C
Imitation Of Anacreon's Grasshopper, Applied To Mr. T. S.
Letter To Tom Punsibi, Occasioned By Reading His Excellent Farce
A New Jingle On Tom Dingle
Poem On Tom Pun On Occasion Of His Late Death
A Punegyric Upon Tom Pun-sibi's Ars Pun-ica
The Puppet Show: 17
The Puppet Show: 18
The Puppet-show: 16
To My Worthy Friend T S -- On His Incomparable Translation Of Persius
Tom Pun-sibi's Resurrection Disproved
Tom Punsibi's Farewell To The Muses
Upon Mr. Sheridan's Turning Author, 1716
From Some Critical Annotations On Various Subjects, Sels.
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ
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