An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661)

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The Augustan Reprint Society
John Evelyn An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661)
With an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes
Publication Number 28
Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California 1951
GENERAL EDITORS H. Richard Archer, Clark Memorial Library Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan Edward Niles Hooker, University of California, Los Angeles John Loftis, University of California, Los Angeles
ASSISTANT EDITOR W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan
ADVISORY EDITORS Emmett L. Avery, State College of Washington Benjamin Boyce, Duke University Louis I. Bredvold, University of Michigan Cleanth Brooks, Yale University James L. Clifford, Columbia University Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago Louis A. Landa, Princeton University Samuel H. Monk, university Of Minnesota Ernest Mossner, University of Texas James Sutherland, Queen Mary College, London H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles

The Apologie for the Royal Party contains an eloquent and outspoken attack upon the parliamentary party, the depth of the author’s feelings making his style of writing more effective than it usually was.
When the Panegyric was identified it was realised that it was not a poem, but an eloquent and extravagant composition in prose, in which Evelyn invested Charles II with every conceivable virtue and all wisdom. This was no doubt written with sincere enthusiasm, though Evelyn suffered a profound disillusionment in later years; and if he ever read his effusion again it must have caused him some distress. The Panegyric is now reprinted for the first time.