Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... reader is often the most important charac- ter in the book : in the third book of the Travels the reader follows Gulliver in his fantasies of the power and joy offered by immortality ; like Gulliver he is allowed to enter into a state ...
... reader is often the most important charac- ter in the book : in the third book of the Travels the reader follows Gulliver in his fantasies of the power and joy offered by immortality ; like Gulliver he is allowed to enter into a state ...
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... reader in much the same vein as the more famous ' Satyr is a sort of Glass ' which prefaces The Battle of the Books ; forbidding the reader the most ready and natural form of escape . Like much , or most satire , it depends upon a calcu ...
... reader in much the same vein as the more famous ' Satyr is a sort of Glass ' which prefaces The Battle of the Books ; forbidding the reader the most ready and natural form of escape . Like much , or most satire , it depends upon a calcu ...
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... reader , or the world which surrounds both author and reader . Here is one of the points at which Swift accepts the most painful and arduous responsibility of the satirist ; it is a human defect which is peculiarly his own which Swift ...
... reader , or the world which surrounds both author and reader . Here is one of the points at which Swift accepts the most painful and arduous responsibility of the satirist ; it is a human defect which is peculiarly his own which Swift ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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