Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
Title
Daniel Defoe on the True‐Born Englishman.
Abstract
The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "The True Born Englishman" by Daniel Defoe. It mentions the poem's declared target is not Englishness as such but English cultural xenophobia, against the cultural disturbance new immigrants caused; and Defoe's argument was that the English nation as it already existed in his time was a product of various incoming European ethnic groups, from Ancient Britons to Anglo-Saxons, Normans and beyond.