The Character of Swift's Satire: A Revised FocusClaude Julien Rawson University of Delaware Press, 1983 - 343 pages 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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Page 80
... true that Swift once wrote in a letter that " Life is a Tragedy , wherein we sit as Spectators awhile , and then act our own Part in it " ( to Mrs. Moore , 7 December 1727 , Correspondence , 3 : 254 ) . He was consoling a mother on the ...
... true that Swift once wrote in a letter that " Life is a Tragedy , wherein we sit as Spectators awhile , and then act our own Part in it " ( to Mrs. Moore , 7 December 1727 , Correspondence , 3 : 254 ) . He was consoling a mother on the ...
Page 178
... 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 brighter , clad in Verse ; And all the Fictions they ...
... 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 brighter , clad in Verse ; And all the Fictions they ...
Page 246
... True Story , More's Utopia , and the works of Rabelais . More peripheral references are made to Plato as source of the utopian idea and to Cyrano de Bergerac for the provision of more nearly contemporary formal models of the imaginary ...
... True Story , More's Utopia , and the works of Rabelais . More peripheral references are made to Plato as source of the utopian idea and to Cyrano de Bergerac for the provision of more nearly contemporary formal models of the imaginary ...
Contents
Prefatory Note 793 | 9 |
Reflections on Swift | 21 |
A Tale of a Tub | 83 |
Copyright | |
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