Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So: (1740)

By James Miller

"Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So: (1740)" by James Miller is a satirical work. This volume is a combination of two different pamphlets written in verse. Made to amuse and provoke thought, these pamphlets were widely circulated and expressed the political and social sentiments that many were feeling but few were brave or outspoken enough to actually express.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 18, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066158040

James Miller

James Miller is a professor of politics and the chair of liberal studies at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of The Passion of Michel Foucault and Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock & Roll, 1947–1977, among other books. He lives in New York City.

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James Miller

Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So: (1740)

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

Are these Things So?

THE GREAT MAN'S

ANSWER

TO

Are these Things So?

NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

Are these Things So?

THE

Previous QUESTION,

FROM AN

Englishman in his GROTTO,

TO A

Great Man at COURT.

Are these Things So?

The Second Edition .

With great Additions and Corrections.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Are these Things So?

THE

Previous QUESTION,

From an Englishman in his GROTTO,

To a Great Man at COURT.

THE

GREAT MAN's

ANSWER

TO

Are these Things So?

THE

GREAT MAN'S

ANSWER

TO

Are these Things So?

IN A

DIALOGUE

BRTWEEN

His Honour and the Englishman

in His GROTTO.

THE

GREAT MAN's

ANSWER

TO

Are these Things So?

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The Augustan Reprint Society

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Are these Things So?

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1740

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THE GREAT MAN'S

Table of Contents

ANSWER

Table of Contents

TO

Table of Contents

Are these Things So?

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(1740)

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Introduction by

Ian Gordon

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PUBLICATION NUMBER 153

WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

University of California, Los Angeles

1972

GENERAL EDITORS

William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles

Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles

David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles

ADVISORY EDITORS

Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan

James L. Clifford, Columbia University

Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia

Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles

Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago

Louis A. Landa, Princeton University

Earl Miner, University of California, Los Angeles

Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota

Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles

Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

James Sutherland, University College, London

H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles

Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Curt A. Zimansky, State University of Iowa

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Jean T. Shebanek, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

INTRODUCTION

The two pamphlets reproduced here belong to the fierce heightening in the pamphlet campaign against Robert Walpole that took place at the end of 1740. They represent only two efforts within a brief but furious encounter that gave rise to the publication of no fewer than nine separate poems. On Thursday, 23 October 1740, Thomas Cooper, one of the most prolific printers and publishers of the pamphlet literature of the eighteenth century, 1  published a savage denunciation of Walpole called Are these things so? 2  This pamphlet, which took the fictional form of an open letter from Alexander Pope, An Englishman in his Grotto, to Robert Walpole, A Great Man at Court, set off a round of verse writing among the party hacks of the day that vividly illustrates the close relationship between literature and politics in the first half of the eighteenth century. Within the space of two months eight further pamphlets directly related to this pamphlet and to Walpole's position as First Minister were published. Such a spate of literary activity is only remarkable, however, when compared