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    Selected Poems (1685-1700)
    Selected Poems (1685-1700)
    Selected Poems (1685-1700)
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    Selected Poems (1685-1700)

    By Spiro Peterson and John Tutchin

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Selected Poems (1685-1700) - Spiro Peterson

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      Title: Selected Poems

      (1685-1700)

      Author: John Tutchin

      Editor: Spiro Peterson

      Release Date: December 25, 2011 [EBook #38407]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SELECTED POEMS ***

      Produced by David Starner, Dave Morgan and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      The Augustan Reprint Society

      JOHN TUTCHIN

      SELECTED POEMS

      (1685-1700)

      INTRODUCTION

      BY

      SPIRO PETERSON

      PUBLICATION NUMBER 110

      WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

      University of California, Los Angeles

      1964

      INTRODUCTION

      When John Tutchin died on September 23, 1707, he had already created the image of himself which Alexander Pope has transmitted to posterity. There, in Book II of The Dunciad (1728), the Whig journalist appears as one of two figures in a shaggy Tap'stry:

      Earless on high, stood un-abash'd Defoe,

      And Tutchin flagrant from the scourge, below.

      Pope, in his variorum notes on the passage, identified Tutchin as the "author of some vile verses, and of a weekly paper call'd the Observator, and revived the fiction of his sentence to be whipp'd thro' several towns in the west of England, upon which he petition'd King James II. to be hanged. The invective" against James II's memory, which Pope mentions, has now been identified in the Twickenham Edition as The British Muse: or Tyranny Expos'd (1701).[1] By 1728, this was all the reputation that remained for Mr. John Tutchin, Gentleman—irascible journalist, pamphleteer, and writer of verses.

      The truth of the matter is that Pope was no more accurate about Tutchin's being whipped than about Defoe's losing his ears. From the sparse reliable information concerning Tutchin's early years, one consistent pattern emerges: he tended to depict himself as a hero and a martyr. Born in 1661 a Freeman of London, he was brought up in a family of scholarly nonconformist ministers probably on the Isle of Wight[2]. Even though an enemy claimed that he had been expelled from a school at Stepney for stealing (DNB), he received some education and travelled on the continent. In defending his skill with languages against Defoe, he once told how at his school, boys translated and capped verses, and how he travelled "from Leivarden in Friezland, thro' Holland and the Spanish Flanders."[3] Throughout his life, he proudly designated himself a gentleman: during his trial for libel in late June of 1704, he even escaped punishment by setting forth that he was a gentleman, and not a laborer as the indictment read.

      In later life, he romanticized himself when young as the hero who fought in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, received the brutal whipping sentence from Lord Chief-Justice Jeffreys during the bloody assezes of 1685, petitioned James II for the Favour of being hang'd to avoid the sentence, and finally freed himself by paying so burdensome a bribe that he was reduced to poverty. All these claims were first made in The Case, Trial, and Sentence of Mr. John Tutchin, and Several Others, in Dorchester, in the County of Dorset, which Tutchin added to the fifth edition of The Western Martyrology; or, the Bloody Assizes, published in

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