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The biannual laureate odes

For a fairly comprehensive, very useful and highly meticulous catalogue of the surviving laureate odes and where they might be found, see Rosamond McGuinness, English Court Odes: 1660–1820 (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1971), 13–43. The body of published laureate odes upon which this monograph draws comprises the following (only one source given for each ode):

Thomas Shadwell

Shadwell produced a variety of odes and non-ode poems for royal occasions, but the only published odes of his which specifically addressed a royal birthday or New Year’s Day were the following:

‘An Ode on the Queens Birth-Day, Sang before their Majesties at Whitehal [1689]’, in Poems on Affairs of State, The Second Part (1697), 223–4

Ode on the Anniversary of the King’s Birth (1690)

Ode on the King’s Birth-Day (1692)

Nahum Tate

An Ode upon the New Year (1693)

‘An Ode upon Her Majesty’s Birth-day, April the 30th [1693]’, in Gentleman’s Journal, Or, The Monthly Miscellany, April 1693, 120–1

An Ode upon His Majesty’s Birth-Day (1693)

An Ode upon His Majesty’s Birth-Day (1694)

The Anniversary Ode for the Fourth of December, 1697. His Majesty’s Birth-Day. Another for New-Year’s-Day, 1697/8 (1698)

An Ode upon the Assembling of the New Parliament. Sung before His Majesty on New-Years-Day. 1702 (1702)

The Song for the New-Years-Day, 1703 (1703)

The Triumph, Or Warriours Welcome: A Poem on the Glorious Successes of the Last Year. With the Ode for New-Year’s Day. 1705 (1705)

‘Song. For New-Year’s Day, 1707’, in The Muses Mercury: Or, Monthly Miscellany, January 1707, 8–9

‘Song. For Her Majesty’s Birth-Day, February the 6th, 1707’, in The Muses Mercury: Or, Monthly Miscellany, February 1707, 27–8

Song for the New-Year 1708 (1708)

The Song for Her Majesty’s Birth-day, February the 6th, 1710/11 (1711)

‘Mr. Tate, the Poet Laureat’s Song, for His Majesty’s Birth-Day, May the 28th. 1715’, in The Flying Post, 9–11 June 1715

Nicholas Rowe

Rowe’s published odes are most easily accessible in Nicholas Rowe, Poems on Several Occasions, and Translations (Glasgow, 1751): ‘Ode for the New Year, 1716’, 105–11; ‘Song For the King’s Birth-Day, 28th of May, 1716’, 112–14; ‘Ode for the New Year, 1717’, 115–17; ‘Ode to Peace for the Year, 1718’, 118–20; ‘Ode for the King’s Birth-Day, 1718’, 121–3; and ‘Ode to the Thames for the Year, 1719’, 124–6.

Laurence Eusden

‘Ode for the New Year, Sung before the King, Jan. 1. 1720’, in Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 9 January 1720

‘A Song Sung at Court, on His Majesty’s Birth-Day’, in Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 4 June 1720

‘Ode for the Birth-Day, 1729’, in Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal, 1 November 1729

‘The Ode for the New Year’, in Grub Street Journal, 15 January 1730

Colley Cibber

Cibber’s first two odes appeared as independent publications: An Ode to His Majesty, for the New-Year, 1730/31 (1731), and An Ode for His Majesty’s Birth-Day, October 30, 1731 (1731). Thereafter, his odes are most readily and consistently accessible in The Gentleman’s Magazine, in its January editions for the New Year odes and in its October or November editions (or even, in 1748, in its December edition) for the birthday odes. Odes that do not appear in The Gentleman’s Magazine, and need to be found elsewhere, are:

‘Ode for the King’s Birth-Day, 1733’, in London Evening Post, 27–30 October 1733

‘[Birthday ode for 1734]’, in London Evening Post, 29–31 October 1734

‘The [birthday] Ode [for 1735]’, in Daily Gazetteer, 31 October 1735

‘Ode for his Majesty’s Birth-Day, 1736’, in London Evening Post, 30 October–2 November 1736

‘Ode for the Birth-day’, in Grub Street Journal, 3 November 1737

‘The [birthday] Ode [for 1739]’, in London Evening Post, 30 October–1 November 1739

‘The [birthday] Ode [for 1740]’, in London Evening Post, 30 October–1 November 1740

‘An Ode for New-Year’s-Day’, in London Evening Post, 1 January 1741

‘An Ode for New-Year’s-Day’, in Daily Post, 2 January 1742

‘Ode for His Majesty’s Birth-Day, 1746’, in London Evening Post, 13–15 November 1746

‘Ode for the New-Year, 1746–7’, in General Advertiser, 2 January 1747

‘[Birthday] Ode [for 1749]’, in Whitehall Evening Post or London Intelligencer, 28–31 October 1749

‘Ode for the New-Year’, in London Evening Post, 30 December 1749–2 January 1750

‘[New Year’s ode for 1753]’, in London Evening Post, 30 December 1752–2 January 1753

‘Ode intended for the New-Year, 1758’, in Whitehall Evening Post or London Intelligencer, 31 December 1757–3 January 1758

William Whitehead, Thomas Warton and Henry James Pye

The odes of all three laureates are most readily and consistently accessible in The Gentleman’s Magazine, in its January editions for the New Year odes and in its June editions for the birthday odes (or in the November editions for the last two birthdays of George II). Odes that do not appear in The Gentleman’s Magazine, and need to be found elsewhere, are:

William Whitehead, ‘Ode on His Majesty’s Birth-day’, in The Edinburgh Magazine, May 1761

William Whitehead, ‘Ode for His Majesty’s birthday, June 4. 1769’, in The Scots Magazine, June 1769

William Whitehead, ‘Ode for the New Year, 1770’, in The Scots Magazine, December 1769

William Whitehead, ‘Ode for his Majesty’s Birth-Day, 1775’, in The Weekly Magazine, or, Edinburgh amusement, 29 June 1775

Thomas Warton, ‘Ode for the New Year 1790’, in London Chronicle, 31 December 1789–2 January 1790

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———— Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696–1801 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2016)

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———— The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)

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———— ‘Charles Paulet [Powlett], second duke of Bolton’, ODNB

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———— ‘Coffeehouse civility, 1660–1714: An aspect of post-courtly culture in England’, Huntington Library Quarterly, lix (1996), 30–51

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———— ‘Commercialization and the economy’, in The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England, ed. Neil McKendrick, John Brewer and John. H. Plumb (London: Hutchinson, 1983; first published 1982), 7–194

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———— Queen Caroline: Cultural Politics at the Early Eighteenth-Century Court (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014)

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———— and Charles W. J. Withers, Georgian Geographies: Essays on Space, Place and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004)

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———— ‘Queen Charlotte, “scientific queen”’, in Queenship in Britain, ed. Orr, 236–66

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———— ‘Samuel Johnson’, ODNB

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———— ‘Scholarship’, in British Poetry, 1660–1800, ed. Lynch, 685–700

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———— ‘Laurence Eusden’, ODNB

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———— and Penelope Lane, Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England: ‘On the Town’ (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003)

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———— Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)

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