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

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      Are these Things So?

      1740

      THE GREAT MAN'S

      ANSWER

      TO

      Are these Things So?

      (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 ages. While it is inconceivable that the publication of any poem in our own day, even by a major writer, should arouse such a response, it is reasonably typical of the first half of the eighteenth century that the publication of an occasional poem by a minor, indeed anonymous, writer should do so.

      On Saturday, 8 November, two weeks after the opening blast, Cooper delivered a second volley, an equally fierce (although largely repetitive) denunciation of Walpole entitled Yes, they are:. 3  A week later still, on Saturday, 15 November, the first pro-Government riposte, called What of That!, was published, 4  followed three days later, on 18 November, by a second reply, The Weather-Menders: A proper Answer to Are these things so? 5  The second edition of What of That! was published on the following Saturday, 22 November, 6  and a third pro-Walpole poem entitled They are Not, was also published at about this time. 7  At the end of November, or early in December, a reply to all three of these defences of Walpole appeared carrying the title, Have at you All. 8  On Tuesday, 2 December, the pro-Walpole forces

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