The Patriot Opposition to Walpole : Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742

What did it mean to be a `Patriot' during the Walpole administration? This is the first full-length study of the so-called Patriot opposition to Walpole. Exploring the interrelationship between patriotism, politics, and poetry between 1725 and 1742, Christine Gerrard discusses Pope, Bolingbroke, Johnson, Thomson, Lyttleton, West, Mallet, and Hill, as well as the literature, prints, architecture, and statuary of the 1730s.