Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Now the Assembly [the
Kit-Kat Club] to adjourn prepar'd,
When Bibliopolo from behind appear'd
As well describ'd by th' old Satyrick Bard, With leering Looks, Bull-fac'd , and Freckled fair, With two left Legs; and Judas-colour'd [red] Hair, With Frowzy Pores, that taint the ambient Air.
Sweating and Puffing for a-while he stood.
And then broke forth in this insulting Mood:
I am the Touchstone of all Modern Wit,
Without my Stamp in vain your Poets write.
Those only purchase everliving Fame,
That in my Miscellany plant their Name.
-- From
William Shippen's, Faction Display'd, the work of a
Tory poet on the powerful
Whig publisher
Jacob Tonson (Bibliopolo, or "book-seller") whose series of anthologies, known as Dryden's Miscellanies or Tonson's Miscellanies used the work of poets paid at low rates to create profitable income for Tonson and, sometimes, recognition and fame for the poets. Shippen incorporated three lines (in italics) written about Tonson by
John Dryden, one of the most prominent of Tonson's low-paid poets.[1]
Works published
Joseph Addison, The Campaign, published this year, although dated "1705"[2]
Edmund Arwaker, An Embassy from Heav'n; or, The Ghost of Queen Mary[2]
Mary Pix, Violenta; or, The Rewards of Virtue, published anonymously; based on the eighth tale of the second day of
Boccaccio's Decameron[2]
Matthew Prior, A letter to Monsieur Boileau Depreaux, published anonymously; about the
Battle of Blenheim (August 13, 1704),[2] and satirizing
Boileau's Fourth Epistle to the King of France,
1672[4]
^Mack, Maynard, Alexander Pope: A Life, Chapter 6, p 123, 1985 (but copyright 1986), first New York edition (also published simultaneously in London): W. W. Norton & Company "in association with Yale University Press / New Haven - London"
ISBN0-393-02208-0; Mack cites Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1774, ed., G. DeF. Lord et al., Yale University Press, in seven volumes 1963-1974, Volume 6, p 667
^
abcdefghiCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN0-19-860634-6
^Paul, Harry Gilbert,
John Dennis: His Life and Criticism, p 50, New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010