The Character of Swift's Satire: A Revised FocusClaude Julien Rawson The nature, style, and targets of Swift's witty, biting, and sometimes violent satire are critically investigated in this collection of essays. They portray Swift's social criticism in the light of his involvement in the politics of Anglo-Irish relations, and trace his literary roots, describing his connection with the Renaissance and studying his use of cliches and rhetoric. |
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Page 98
... Dryden and Pope love to dilate on the busy - ness of grubs . " Cool was his kitchen but his brains were hot , " Dryden says of Corah , his Puritan malcontent . Pope sets his dunces frenetically spinning their cobwebs over the eye of day ...
... Dryden and Pope love to dilate on the busy - ness of grubs . " Cool was his kitchen but his brains were hot , " Dryden says of Corah , his Puritan malcontent . Pope sets his dunces frenetically spinning their cobwebs over the eye of day ...
Page 304
... : Mouton , 1972 . Williams , Kathleen . " Johnathan Swift . " In Dryden to Johnson , edited by Roger Lonsdale . London : Sphere , 1971 . 11 The Ironic Tradition in Augustan Prose from Swift to 304 THE CHARACTER OF Swift's Satire.
... : Mouton , 1972 . Williams , Kathleen . " Johnathan Swift . " In Dryden to Johnson , edited by Roger Lonsdale . London : Sphere , 1971 . 11 The Ironic Tradition in Augustan Prose from Swift to 304 THE CHARACTER OF Swift's Satire.
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... Dryden - in MacFlecknoe , for instance - comes much closer to banter than Pope ever does , and the barrier between himself and his satiric targets is not normally the unsurmountable one of irony : his verse implies that both he and they ...
... Dryden - in MacFlecknoe , for instance - comes much closer to banter than Pope ever does , and the barrier between himself and his satiric targets is not normally the unsurmountable one of irony : his verse implies that both he and they ...
Contents
Prefatory Note 793 | 9 |
Reflections on Swift | 21 |
A Tale of a Tub | 83 |
Copyright | |
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