The Augustan Reprint Society
JOHN TUTCHIN
SELECTED POEMS
(1685-1700)
INTRODUCTION
BY
SPIRO PETERSON
PUBLICATION NUMBER 110
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California, Los Angeles
1964
| GENERAL EDITORS |
| Earl R. Miner, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Lawrence Clark Powell, Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library |
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| ADVISORY EDITORS |
| John Butt, University of Edinburgh |
| James L. Clifford, Columbia University |
| Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago |
| Louis A. Landa, Princeton University |
| Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota |
| Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles |
| James Sutherland, University College, London |
| H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles |
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| CORRESPONDING SECRETARY |
| Edna C. Davis, Clark Memorial Library |
INTRODUCTION
When John Tutchin died on September 23, 1707, he had already created the image of himself which Alexander Pope has transmitted to posterity. There, in Book II of The Dunciad (1728), the Whig journalist appears as one of two figures in a "shaggy Tap'stry":