John Dryden and the first Jacobite poem
Britannia Rediviva -A Poem on the Prince Born 10th June 1688 Birth of the infant Prince James in 1688, unknown artist, image in public domain courtesy of 'Wikipedia' The Jacobites have been commemorated in song, ballads, novels. But arguable the first Jacobite poem -John Dryden's Britannia Rediviva, A Poem on the Prince - has been overlooked. Charles II died on 6th February 1685. The ongoing struggle for succession between the Protestant Duke of Monmouth, his illegitimate son, and Charles' brother James Duke of York, a Roman Catholi...