Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-308) and index.
Contents:
The eighteenth-century debate about patriotism -- Patriotic odes and patriot-poets -- James Thomson: "to mix the Patriot's with the Poet's Flame" -- Mark Akenside: "great citizen of Albion" -- William Collins: "Virtue's Patriot theme" -- Thomas Gray: "some great and singular service to his country" -- John Dyer: "sedulous for the public weal" -- Oliver Goldsmith: "half a patriot" -- Christopher Smart and William Cowper: "Christian patriots" -- Ann Yearsley: "the female patriot".
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