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The satire is here raised to a degree of sheer brilliance certainly unequalled by even the greatest of Swift's later compositions , and possibly by any other work of satire . This effect is the result both of artistic execution and of ...
The satire is here raised to a degree of sheer brilliance certainly unequalled by even the greatest of Swift's later compositions , and possibly by any other work of satire . This effect is the result both of artistic execution and of ...
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on , the imaginary voyage has been a vehicle for specific satire upon historians , scholars , courts , etc. How much satire of this sort - satire without an arrière - pensée - there is in Gulliver's Travels one does not perceive until ...
on , the imaginary voyage has been a vehicle for specific satire upon historians , scholars , courts , etc. How much satire of this sort - satire without an arrière - pensée - there is in Gulliver's Travels one does not perceive until ...
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The satire on the pro- jectors he took over from his Martinus Scriblerus papers , while into his account of the Flying Island he wove several passages full of allusions to England's policy towards Ire- land and the Irish demonstrations ...
The satire on the pro- jectors he took over from his Martinus Scriblerus papers , while into his account of the Flying Island he wove several passages full of allusions to England's policy towards Ire- land and the Irish demonstrations ...
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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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