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Defoe became a merchant but went bankrupt in 1692 and left the world of business in 1703. Defoe was an acclaimed and prolific pamphleteer and journalist who wrote scabrous attacks on supporters of King William III and Queen Anne, William’s successor. Defoe was often imprisoned for his inflammatory writings. In 1719 he published the novel Robinson Crusoe, considered one of first novels in the English language and still heralded as a masterpiece. Other novels followed: Moll Flanders, Journal of the Plague Year, and Roxana. Defoe wrote hundreds of nonfiction and journalistic accounts, but he was also a poet. In the not-too-distant past it was more customary to refer to his “verses” than to his poems—and to add such qualifiers as“execrable.” In recent years, however, a few critics have begun to pay serious attention to the poems and to discover artistry in them and a reflection of his quick and subtle mind. Defoe is an author still being assessed critically. No complete edition of all of his writings exists. It is not certain that he wrote the 566 works assigned to him by John Robert Moore in the 1971 edition of his Checklist of the Writings ofDaniel Defoe. Critics are even in the precarious position of not knowing if Defoe is merely a creature we have put together in our heads from works that may or may not be by him. However, the poems discussed here are, for the most part, well established in the canon. They display a sharp mind that is always preoccupied with the social, religious, and political issues of the day.  \nDefoe wrote some form of poetry all his life, but his great period of poetic composition was from 1699 to 1707. Here and there, especially in the Review (the periodical that he wrote singlehandedly from February 1704 to June 1713), he left distichs, lampoons, pasquinades, fragments of songs, and ballads; he also included verses in his novels. One can track the  \ndevelopment of his thought in the poems, his attachment to certain ideas, such as reform or morality, his theoretical interests in the language and style of poetry, his habit of casting poems into irony, and his skill in creating large poetic “fictions” that permit him to draw together numerous “characters” in recognizable patterns. Within his lifetime a few poems had considerable popularity, in, for example, the 1703 Poems on Afairs ofState.“The Author of the True-Born Englishman” became a common nom de plume on title pages, both for poems by Defoe and some poems not by him. He was a favorite of the literary pirates; for example, Henry Hill’s pieces (including Defoe’s) appeared in 1717 asA Collection of the Best English Poetry. Giles Jacob, in The Poetical Register (1723), observed that two pieces were “very much admir’d by some Persons”: The True-Born Englishman (1700) and Jure Divino (1706). Robert Shiels in Theophilus Gibber’s Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) found that “poetry was far from being the talent of De Foe” and yet discussed four verse satires and listed Caledonia (1706) and Jure Divino in the bibliography. George Chalmers (1785) and the later biographers and critics treat the poems with widely different emphases but generally with scorn or neglect. In the discussion that follows, certain prose works, such asA Vindication of the Press (1718), are now controversial as the work of Defoe and are omitted from consideration. The poems are taken up chronologically, with a few exceptions; and some efforts are made to create larger groupings of the poems, such as parliament poems, moral satires, and Scottish poems. The best texts of the poems, with annotations and headnotes, are to be found in Poems on Afairs ofState: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, volumes 6 and 7 ( 1970, 1975).  \nThe poems from The Meditations (written in 1681; first published in 1946) to The Chara","cbCait5Lppro0uQO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait5Lppro0uQO","pdf",1178711,26,"English","# Daniel Defoe’s Life and Literary Career\n## Poetry, Prolific Writing, and Critical Reception\n## Major Novels and The Place of Verse\n## Poetic Period and Formal Practices\n## Canon, Attribution Uncertainty, and Editorial Gaps\n## Chronological Organization and Poem Groupings\n## Early Poems in The Meditations and Religious Themes\n## Puritan Education and Secular Resolution","[{\"question\":\"What major work is Defoe associated with, and when was it published?\",\"answer\":\"The text highlights Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, described as among the first English-language novels and regarded as a masterpiece.\"},{\"question\":\"When was Defoe’s most productive period for writing poetry?\",\"answer\":\"His great period of poetic composition is given as 1699 to 1707, with references to poems and verse forms used across this span.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the text say about the authorship and completeness of Defoe’s collected writings?\",\"answer\":\"It notes that no complete edition of all his writings exists and that it is uncertain whether all works assigned to him—such as the 566 listed in a 1971 checklist—are truly his.\"}]","Daniel Defoe - Poetry Foundation | PDF",1789940360]