Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- The Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Poetry, Pamphleteering and the Pillory
- 2 Defoe and the Dead King
- 3 The Author of the Review
- 4 Propagandist for the Union
- 5 ‘Maintaining a Counter Correspondence’
- 6 1710: The Fateful Step
- 7 Defoe and the Whig Split
- 8 The Return of the Prodigal
- Appendices A Three Recently-Discovered Letters from Defoe to Godolphin (1708)
- Appendices B The ‘Sir Andrew Politick’ Letter (25 October 1718)
- Appendices C Defoe's An Appeal to Honour and Justice (1715)
- Notes
- Index
2 - Defoe and the Dead King
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- The Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Poetry, Pamphleteering and the Pillory
- 2 Defoe and the Dead King
- 3 The Author of the Review
- 4 Propagandist for the Union
- 5 ‘Maintaining a Counter Correspondence’
- 6 1710: The Fateful Step
- 7 Defoe and the Whig Split
- 8 The Return of the Prodigal
- Appendices A Three Recently-Discovered Letters from Defoe to Godolphin (1708)
- Appendices B The ‘Sir Andrew Politick’ Letter (25 October 1718)
- Appendices C Defoe's An Appeal to Honour and Justice (1715)
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Defoe emerged from Newgate ruined and humiliated but, so he liked to let it be known, with one impressive claim to respect: that he had known, and even been intimate with, King William. Writing much later in An Appeal to Honour and Justice (1715) he asserted that their relationship dated from the publishing of The True-Born Englishman.
How this Poem was the Occasion of my being known to his Majesty; how I was afterwards receiv'd by him; how Employ'd; and how, above my Capacity of deserving, Rewarded, is no Part of the present Case, and is only mention'd here as I take all Occasions to do for the expressing the Honour I ever preserv'd for the Immortal and Glorious Memory of that Greatest and Best of Princes, and who it was my Honour and Advantage to call Master as well as Sovereign, whose Goodness to me I never forgot, neither can forget; and whose Memory I never patiently heard abused, nor ever can do so, and who had he liv'd, would never have suffered me to be treated as I have been in the World.
From the time of his release from Newgate onwards, Defoe's relations with King William became one of his most cherished themes.
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- A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe , pp. 26 - 32Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014