The Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713, prompted a great deal of writing. Partisan views about the war and its ending and excitement about the peace found expression in polemical pamphlets, caustic satire and self-professedly high-minded poetry. Some of these works or their offspring have survived. The figure of John Bull first appeared in a pamphlet series in 1712, and he has become one of the few fictional characters to earn an entry in the

. Specialists still study the party writings of Jonathan Swift, and three of Alexander Pope's major poems have connections, of differing degrees of closeness, with the treaty.

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Citation: Richardson, John. "Treaty of Utrecht - Literary Responses". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 December 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5558, accessed 26 November 2024.]