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 which reached its height during the clamor for war against Spain at the turn of the 1730s. Christine Gerrard examines the interrelationship between patriotism, politics, and poetry in the period 1724-1742, looking at the poetry and drama of such authors as James Thomson, Alexander Pope, and the young Samuel Johnson, who were all drawn to the heady idealism of the young Boy Patriots. Other authors discussed include Bolingbroke, Lyttleton, West, Mallet, and Hill, and Gerrard looks, too, at the literature, prints, architecture, and statuary of the 1730s.

What did it mean to be a 'Patriot' during the Walpole administration? This is a study of the so-called 'Patriot' opposition to Walpole, and explores the interrelationship between patriotism, politics, and poetry between 1725 and 1742.

Excerpt from The Minute Men and Other Patriots of Walpole, Mass., In Our Long Struggle for National Independence, 1775 1783 While preparing my History of Walpole for publication in 1905, feeling that the honorable and patriotic part our worthy forefathers had early played in saving this portion of America to the white man and civilization, as well as in their final and more glorious achievement of our National Inde pendence was but little understood, I dwelt to some length on a few of the more vital points of general interest, but omitted many of the patriots' names which were no longer common in our changed population. Finding since that many of the scholars and some of the teachers in our public schools have found the History of substantial pleasure and benefit, to encourage them still further in their grateful appreciation of the great debt we all owe to those self - sacrificing toilers in our behalf, I now offer the following Roll of Honor, not all Minute Men, but, I trust, all Patriots. The highest distinction one can ever receive from another in this country is that of being a worthy descendant of one of its loyal members. The standard is lofty. May you all reach it. Especially would the country rejoice to hear of the regeneration of certain people in our midst who so thoughtlessly brought disgrace upon themselves and dishonor upon the Town by their futile opposition to the Patriots' Memorial, herein represented, the first and only public mark of respect offered here, to those heroic winners of our dearly purchased Independence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Simon Varey's edition of William Arnall's Case of Opposition Stated (1732) stands to enrich the ongoing discussion of politics and propaganda in the British paper wars of the 1720s and 1730s. The pamphlet, funded by Sir Robert Walpole's administration, attempted to undermine the credibility of the opposition spearheaded by Viscount Bolingbroke and William Pulteney. Arnall's point-by-point rebuttal of a recent number of Bolingbroke and Pulteney's newspaper, the Craftsman, had a particular urgency about it: the Craftsman's printer had recently been convicted for seditious libel, and the Craftsman was reveling in the publicity, selling more copies as it intensified its attacks on Walpole and George II. Arnall's blistering polemic constituted the administration's most forceful attempt to turn the debate against the opposition. The edition includes a scholarly introduction and notes as well as transcriptions of several numbers of the Craftsman and sections of Dr. Varey's previously unpublished manuscript on the Craftsman. The late Dr. Varey published widely on eighteenth-century subjects.