Patriotism and poetry in eighteenth-century Britain

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."