Anti-Jacobin - The Poetry of The Anti-Jacobin

The Poetry of The Anti-Jacobin

In 1799, William Gifford compiled the most memorable and innovative parts from the Anti-Jacobin: the poems. The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin resembles another great work written at the time: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Poems of Political Recantation. Although a great deal of the poems in the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin are considered to be humorous, some patriotic poems are written in dull Latin and are therefore conceived to be more serious and tedious. “The political targets of the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin are manifold: the villainy of the French, the treachery of the Irish, the hypocrisy of the Whigs, the philanthropic cant of the radical”.