Article: The critical reception of The Isle of Pines.(The Isle of Pines: Critical Reception)

The best starting point for a discussion of the critical reception given to The Isle of Pines is the Oxford wit, antiquarian and biographer Anthony Wood, who provides us with an identification of Neville as the author of The Isle as well as with a first hint at the work's reception. (1) Although Wood, like Samuel Pepys, had his copy of The Isle bound in a volume of travel narratives and stories of discovery, he also noted on the title page of the pamphlet that "when this was first published 'twas look'd upon as a sham." (2) In the political climate after the Restoration "shams" were a common form of expression, a type of code that enabled an author to utter unorthodox or ...

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