Daniel Defoe was born Daniel Foe in London in 1660 It was perhaps inevitable that Defoe, an oııtspoken man, would become a political joumalist. As a Puritan he believed God had given him a mission to print the truth, that is, to proselytize on religion and politics and, in fact, he became a prolific pamphleteer satirizing the hypocrisies of both Church and State. Defoe admired William III, and his poem The Tnıe-Born Englishman (1701) on him the king's friendship. Bütan ill-timed satire on High C ...