The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707)

2025/08/01 by Jacob Donald Chatterjee · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Historical Art and Culture Studies #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity #Literature: history, themes, analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/0895769x.2025.2539740

Abstract

In 1707, a poem entitled the True-Born Britain was published to celebrate the Act of Union between England and Scotland that year. The poem was purportedly by the “Author of the True-Born Englishma...

Citations

• The ‘Imitation’ in English Poetry, Especially in Formal Satire, Before the Age Of Pope

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