... of value in both. RICHARDH. GREEN Prmceton Unizmsity That Grand Whig Milton. By GE~RGEF. SENSABAUGH.Stanford: Stanford University Publications, University Series, Language and Literature, Vol. XI; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege...

... consists of the multitude of brief tracts more in the nature of timely broadsheets than extended political controversy. Of this kind are such works as Short Character of His Excellency Thomas Earl of Wharton (1711), Some Advice to the Members of the October Club (1712), Letter to a Whig Lord...

... the outline is that one issue runs throughout: the single common denominator, as a review of the topics will show, is the Whig party. The section which surveys politics in 1713-14 comes to focus on the take-over by a “dangerous Faction . . ./With Wrath and Vengeance in their Hearts’’ (379-80...

... 579 ff.; 111, i, lines 99 ff.; 111, ii, lines 100 ff. 422 Byron’s “Marino Faliero” as “the successor of Fox” shows that he had as yet no suspicion that Hobhouse was on the verge of forsaking the main body of the Whigs.19 Then sincere regret over Hobhouse’s loss...

... addresses himself to Walpole and the Whig authorities, to Lord Car- teret, and, with less justification perhaps, to personal coteries. He writes for persuasion, encouragement, intimidation, entertainment, aesthetic satisfaction, self-defense, and self-expression (or, as the social scientist puts...

... service for them and for the stage. Steele was made supervisor of Drury Lane just after the accession of George I as compensation for his loyal service to the House of Hanover and the Whig cause in the last troubled years of Anne’s reign. He had written so zealously in support...

... and the Daemonic is aggressively iconoclastic. Adopting the terminology of Herbert Butterfield’s Whig Interpretation of History (193 l), Stock objects to what he calls “Whig bias” and “Whig criticism.” “Most experts on the eighteenth century,” he states in his introduc- tory paragraph, “trace...

... was not, in his early career, a partisan in poli- tics, but tried to keep on good terms with both Tories and Whigs, to remain “above party.” It was Pope himself who first taught us to believe these things, and modern biographers and critics have on the whole followed him. John Aden’s purpose...

... in the light of that con- trolling purpose. I1 Ambrose Philips was one of the minor Whig writers of Pope’s time, a member of Addison’s “little senate” at Button’s coffee-house and author of plays and periodical essays as well as poems.6 Later known, because of his...

... undeviatingly to both tlx Whig party and its principles, his loyalty being all the more con- spicuous because of the shifts in allegiance which took place all about him. His poIiticaI opinions were dominated from beginning to end by the principles of the Revolution Settlement. The Christian...

.... GREEN Prmceton Unizmsity That Grand Whig Milton. By GE~RGEF. SENSABAUGH.Stanford: Stanford University Publications, University Series, Language and Literature, Vol. XI; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1952. Pp. ix + 213. $4.00. In his preface...

... was a constitutional state marked by continuity of govern- ment. The most famous inheritor of this conservative Whig interpreta- tion was Edmund Burke. The other interpretation was advanced by those whom Pocock calls “radical Whigs,” who viewed 1688 as a strug- gle to limit the monarchy further and achieve...

... ;I I t t i ti( 1 i \ri ( I I I - alistii. Soticg:ili t;iri:i t i f0i-cc.s ;it it1 i t 1st it 11 t iotis, prti(ulai.ly t tic ( :IiuiI1, are the principal impediments to this evolution. The Whig historian tlieti-it) k~erl)ertl%uttei.ficltl's oi.cls-it~if)c,ses "a (w.t;iiti fi)i.tii IiI)oti...

... that “inserts nature into history,” represent- ing the development of civil society from the earliest stage of hunting/gathering, through pastoral and agricultural stages, until the final emergence of ”a new imperium envisioned by the advocates of commercial society“ (248). In the old Whig vision...

..., John Ransom, Van Wyck Brooks, and the T. S. Eliot to whom they looked, a conservatism that many scholars have seen as lying behind all of the relishing of ambiguity, irony, and complexity that characterized their work (pp. 18-27, 102-10). Again, to make the “Whig” Chaucerians of the first...

... principles of selection underlie the notes and bibliog- raphy of this volume, though there is much of value in both. RICHARDH. GREEN Prmceton Unizmsity That Grand Whig Milton. By GE~RGEF. SENSABAUGH.Stanford: Stanford University...

... himself to “Whig panegyric verse” he limited the topic unduly, since Tories had access to a competing mode of political encomium.9 In saying that georgic swerved toward such themes, I do not of course imply that politics had been absent from the genre. On the contrary, it had manifestly...

... arrived in England in September, 1816, he was perhaps more famous as a champion of liberty in Greece and Italy than as a writer. He was welcomed with delight by the Whig circle of which Byron had been a memher, and he could undoubtedly have taken over Byron’s literary role just as Byron...

... prottgC, Charles Montagu, dispensed at least part of his patronage to men who were useful in the Whig cause. It would be interesting to know whether Montagu’s patron ever utilized the system for similar political purposes, and if SO, to what lengths he went. Apropos of Charles...

..., why had he not spoken out in 1710 when the Allies sought to upset that balance of power which he had so often declared was necessary to the peace of Europe? Was it not because he was for a time in the pay of Godolphin? From moderate Tory Harley he had gone to Whig Godolphin, but he...