The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftMethuen, 1953 - 400 pages |
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Page vii
... 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 men for all ...
... 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 men for all ...
Page 41
... criticism , for Swift's humour- consistently underestimated — is of an entirely different order from Rabelais's , being sub ... critics , and for a second time - the first in the Ode to the Athenian Society - he introduces the theme of a ...
... criticism , for Swift's humour- consistently underestimated — is of an entirely different order from Rabelais's , being sub ... critics , and for a second time - the first in the Ode to the Athenian Society - he introduces the theme of a ...
Page 316
... critics and historians ; and the description of the revolting immortals of Luggnagg , the Struldbrugs . Nor is there any witty fillip at the end of the Voyage , where Gulliver's return to civili- zation gives rise to no humorous or ...
... critics and historians ; and the description of the revolting immortals of Luggnagg , the Struldbrugs . Nor is there any witty fillip at the end of the Voyage , where Gulliver's return to civili- zation gives rise to no humorous or ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
YEARS OF ACTIVITY AND SUSPENSE | 101 |
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