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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... rhetorical " of the two , finally returning to a preference for English sermons not only because steady reminders of duty do not need rhetoric , but because phleg- matic Englishmen are unlikely to be stirred by it anyway : " I do not ...
... rhetorical " of the two , finally returning to a preference for English sermons not only because steady reminders of duty do not need rhetoric , but because phleg- matic Englishmen are unlikely to be stirred by it anyway : " I do not ...
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... rhetoric of such heroic self - display has this ring : True Poets can depress and raise ; Are Lords of Infamy and Praise : They are not scurrilous in Satire , Nor will in Panygyrick flatter . Unjustly poets we asperse ; Truth shines the ...
... rhetoric of such heroic self - display has this ring : True Poets can depress and raise ; Are Lords of Infamy and Praise : They are not scurrilous in Satire , Nor will in Panygyrick flatter . Unjustly poets we asperse ; Truth shines the ...
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... rhetoric , a potentially introspective into a public and even ceremonial situation . Simply to point to the features of the poem's initial movement is to describe a rhetorical structure of devious complexity : Swift imagines the re ...
... rhetoric , a potentially introspective into a public and even ceremonial situation . Simply to point to the features of the poem's initial movement is to describe a rhetorical structure of devious complexity : Swift imagines the re ...
Contents
Prefatory Note 793 | 9 |
Reflections on Swift | 21 |
A Tale of a Tub | 83 |
Copyright | |
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