James Beattie (poet) - Works

Works

  • Original Poems and Translations (1760)
  • The Judgement of Paris (1765)
  • Poems on Several Subjects (1766)
  • An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770)
  • The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771/2) two volumes
  • Essays, on the nature and immutability of truth in opposition to sophistry and scepticism. On poetry and music as they affect the mind. On laughter and ludicrous composition. On the utility of classical learning (1776)
  • Essays on Poetry (1778)
  • Scoticisms, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, Designed to Correct Improprieties of Speech and Writing (1779)
  • Poems on several occasions (1780)
  • Dissertations Moral and Critical (1783)
  • The Evidence of the Christian Religion Briefly and Plainly Stated (1786) 2 vols.
  • The theory of language. Part I. Of the origin and general nature of speech. Part II. Of universal grammar (1788)
  • Elements of Moral Science (1790–1793) two volumes
  • The Poetical Works of James Beattie (1831) edited by A. Dyce
  • The poetical works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer (1868) edited by Charles Cowden Clarke
  • James Beattie's Day-Book, 1773-1778 (1948) edited by R. S. Walker
  • James Beattie's Diary (1948) edited by R. S. Walker

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