The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 68
... satire intellec- tualized by as theoretical a mind as England had produced . Now , it has often been said that Butler is Swift's master . This can mean several things . One thing which it cannot mean is that the satiric artist in Swift ...
... satire intellec- tualized by as theoretical a mind as England had produced . Now , it has often been said that Butler is Swift's master . This can mean several things . One thing which it cannot mean is that the satiric artist in Swift ...
Page 95
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 297
... satire of this sort - satire without an arrière - pensée – there is in Gulliver's Travels one does not perceive until he sets out to look for it . The imaginary voyage , however , has lent itself equally well to satire of a much higher ...
... satire of this sort - satire without an arrière - pensée – there is in Gulliver's Travels one does not perceive until he sets out to look for it . The imaginary voyage , however , has lent itself equally well to satire of a much higher ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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