The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 275
... artistic genius he was no more denying than was Sidney ; his quarrel with the Sidneian school was rather over the meaning of artistic genius . Believing as he did that imagination is entirely the outgrowth of certain physical conditions ...
... artistic genius he was no more denying than was Sidney ; his quarrel with the Sidneian school was rather over the meaning of artistic genius . Believing as he did that imagination is entirely the outgrowth of certain physical conditions ...
Page 326
... artistic success , but of a certain lack thereof . Indeed , Gulliver's Travels reveals several artistic defects . For one of these Swift can- not be wholly blamed . So much of his meaning depends upon the feelings evoked in 1726 by the ...
... artistic success , but of a certain lack thereof . Indeed , Gulliver's Travels reveals several artistic defects . For one of these Swift can- not be wholly blamed . So much of his meaning depends upon the feelings evoked in 1726 by the ...
Page 327
... artistic ineptitude in Gulliver's Travels . Again , the work is overloaded with satiric material , and anything that is thereby gained in in- tellectual force is more than offset by the loss in deftness . But the greatest weakness- this ...
... artistic ineptitude in Gulliver's Travels . Again , the work is overloaded with satiric material , and anything that is thereby gained in in- tellectual force is more than offset by the loss in deftness . But the greatest weakness- this ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
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