Anti-Jacobin - The Anti-Jacobin and Other Works

The Anti-Jacobin and Other Works

The Anti-Leveller of 1793 is considered to be an “elder relative” to the Anti-Jacobin. Alexander Watson’s The Anti-Jacobin, a Hudibrastic Poem in Twenty-one Cantos (1794) had a similar motif and also contained stanzas filled with heavy sarcasm and rhymed couplets. Both of these works are not considered to be as interesting as the Anti-Jacobin to historians.

The Anti-Jacobin’s final publication was immediately followed by the publication of the Anti-Jacobin Review, which is regarded to be a weaker, clumsier periodical compared to its parent. Since the Anti-Jacobin was regarded to be a wide success, it was reprinted several times in its entirety in 1799. Two of these were in quarto and also an octavo fourth edition that was edited. The Beauties of the Anti-Jacobin was also published that year which was similar to the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.