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Thus later critics- the Jeffreys and the Thackerays - found a Swift mythos ready to hand , waiting only for forcible restatement and amplification . Thackeray exercised all his superb art to paint a portrait which would revolt honest ...
Thus later critics- the Jeffreys and the Thackerays - found a Swift mythos ready to hand , waiting only for forcible restatement and amplification . Thackeray exercised all his superb art to paint a portrait which would revolt honest ...
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Pope's famous lines are bad criticism , for Swift's humour- consistently underestimated — is of an entirely different order from Rabelais's , being sub - acid and starkly intellectual , while his ' serious air ' is irony without a trace ...
Pope's famous lines are bad criticism , for Swift's humour- consistently underestimated — is of an entirely different order from Rabelais's , being sub - acid and starkly intellectual , while his ' serious air ' is irony without a trace ...
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... of Balnibarbi and of the Grand Academy of Lagado ; the account of Gulliver's experiences in Glubbdubdrib , a satire on literary critics and historians ; and the description of the revolting immortals of Luggnagg , the Struldbrugs .
... of Balnibarbi and of the Grand Academy of Lagado ; the account of Gulliver's experiences in Glubbdubdrib , a satire on literary critics and historians ; and the description of the revolting immortals of Luggnagg , the Struldbrugs .
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Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
MOOR PARK AND SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE | 10 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a | 49 |
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| Title | The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Ricardo Quintana |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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