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This essay examines for the first time the poetry of Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke. Although Bolingbroke is now best known as a political theorist, historical writer, and opposition propagandist, he started his career as a poet. He published widely during the latter part of the reign of William III and his poems circulated in manuscript. Bolingbroke’s poems, this essay contends, illuminate the ideological consistency of his early career. An introductory section documents Bolingbroke’s involvement with John Dryden during the 1690s, and a second section then charts his collaborations with other members of Dryden’s circle and unpacks the cultural politics of their poetry. The essay then explores the intertextuality of Bolingbroke’s poems and the implications on the poet’s intellectual milieu. The final sections of the essay investigate Bolingbroke’s literary patronage during his tenure as a minister of state, before documenting the influence of Bolingbroke’s early oppositional rhetoric through his later campaign against Sir Robert Walpole.
Author(s): Hone J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: The Review of English Studies
Year: 2018
Volume: 69
Issue: 292
Pages: 874-895
Print publication date: 01/11/2018
Online publication date: 12/02/2018
Acceptance date: 01/01/2017
Date deposited: 30/09/2019
ISSN (print): 0034-6551
ISSN (electronic): 1471-6968
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgx139
DOI: 10.1093/res/hgx139
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