Being Answer Things Previous Question by Robert Morris (2 results)

Small 8vo in fours, pp. 15; disbound. One of four Dublin reprints of a poem which was first printed in London earlier the same year. This is a reply to a recent poem by James Miller that had caused a sensation. Are these things so? was a challenge to Sir Robert Walpole and his ministry, issued as if it had been written by Pope. In this affirmative response the poet ends with the suggestion that Walpole save the nation by committing suicide, using a dagger, or hemlock; several other poems immediately appeared in reply, defending the government. The author Robert Morris (1703-1754) was born and raised in Twickenham; Pope, unsurprisingly, was his literary model. He was a professional surveyor and builder, who wrote many works on contemporary architecture. 'His writings are now seen to form the most substantial and coherent contemporary commentary on British architecture in the first half of the eighteenth century' (ODNB. Foxon M515. ESTC lists only six locations.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). Robert Morris's very scarce poem, responding to the James Miller poem 'Are These Things So?'. Published in the same year as the first edition, this work is very scarce in all editions.ESTC T199793, with leaf A2 signed as called for.The work of influential 18th-Century English writer on architecture, Robert Morris.Morris in this poem offers a response to James Miller's scathing poem 'Are These Things So?', which uses the persona of Pope to query if Robert Walpole might be 'the fatal Cause of Britain"s Shame, / The Spend-thrift of her Freedom and her Fame?".Miller's work prompted several responses, of which this is one. Unbound, as issued. Minor loss to title page head. Minor mark to fore edge of rear wrap. Final leaf detached to tail, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned due to paper type, with only the odd spot. Very Good. book.