Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So: (1740)
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Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So - James Miller
James Miller
Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So: (1740)
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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?
The Augustan Reprint Society
PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT
The Augustan Reprint Society
PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT
The Augustan Reprint Society
Are these Things So?
Table of Contents
1740
THE GREAT MAN'S
Table of Contents
ANSWER
Table of Contents
TO
Table of Contents
Are these Things So?
Table of Contents
(1740)
Introduction by
Ian Gordon
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 with other