Poetical Works

Description

Original Poems and Translations (1760)
The Judgment of Paris (1765)
Verses occasioned by the Death of Revd Mr Charles Churchill (1765)
To Mr Alexander Ross (1768)
The Minstrel, the Two Books; with Some other Poems (1784)

Beattie's most important poems are reproduced here in the form in which they were known in the late eighteenth century. They include The Minstrel, which powerfully affected Wordsworth and the Romantics.