Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts: History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne

360 Pages·2005·4.95 MB·English

by  Pat Rogers

POPE AND THE DESTINY OF THE STUARTS
Frontispiece:Peter Angelis,‘Queen Anne and the Knights ofthe Garter’.
National Portrait Gallery.
POPE AND THE
DESTINY OF THE
STUARTS
History, Politics, and Mythology
in the Age of Queen Anne
PAT ROGERS
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Acknowledgements
An undertaking ofthis kind,extending over many years,inevitably owes much to
the collective input ofcolleagues,friends,and students.A more particular debt is
due to Paul Baines for reading draft sections ofthe book and to Brian Vickers for
supplying excellent advice,some ofit heeded.Help in the preparation ofthe manu-
script was provided by Elizabeth Latshaw-Foti and Michelle Lattanzio.
Sections of Chapters  and  were given in a plenary presentation to the
thirteenth DeBartolo Conference in Eighteenth-Century Studies,held at Tampa
in.
P.R.
Contents
List ofIllustrations x
Abbreviations xi
Chronology – xiv
Introduction 
. Setting 
Composition,Manuscript,and Publishing History 
Binfield Wood and Bagshot Heath 
The Lost Domain 
Trumbull,the Forest,and Retirement 
A Superior Being 
Home-Felt Quiet 
. Biography 
A Change ofLife 
The Scriblerian Moment 
Early Poems 
Lansdowne 
Rebels and a Cause 
The Choice ofa Patron 
. Politics 
History 
The Stuarts 
Topicality 
Peace Triumphant 
Jacobitism 
Pious Papists and Loyal Patrons 
Occult Practices 
viii Contents
. The Queen 
Sovereign,Court,and Country 
Works ofPeace 
Images ofMajesty 
The Regal Shield 
Vivat Regina 
The Ritual ofBlessing 
. Windsor 
Honours and Dishonours 
George and Garter 
The Castle and the Chapel 
Custom and Ceremony 
Storied Urns 
The Boast ofHeraldry 
. The War and the Peace 
Let Discord Cease 
Duke and Duchess 
The Palace 
The Captain Departs 
Foreign Fields 
The Four Indian Kings 
Southern Skies 
Freed Indians 
. Classical and Renaissance Literature 
Virgil and the English Georgic 
Ovid’s Gold and Silver 
Lodona 
Camden and Drayton 
Spenser,Shakespeare,and Milton 
. Later Literary Contexts 
The Legacy ofCooper’s Hill 
Cowley 
Contents ix
Evelyn and Wren 
Sylva 
The Lore ofthe Seasons 
Addison 
Conclusion:Death in Arcady 
Sources 
Index 
Index ofPassages in Pope’s Poetry 