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Page xii
... imagery of violence , and the language and imagery of food . The section on the language of food opens out into a general discussion of satiric treatments of this subject in the century . In my study of Swift I have concentrated on the ...
... imagery of violence , and the language and imagery of food . The section on the language of food opens out into a general discussion of satiric treatments of this subject in the century . In my study of Swift I have concentrated on the ...
Page 38
... imagery as a way of legitimising their own grandiose ambitions . A classical tradition of order , moderation , dignity and self- knowledge was invoked to attack a modern Rome of vanity , pomp , ceremony and slavery . This distinction ...
... imagery as a way of legitimising their own grandiose ambitions . A classical tradition of order , moderation , dignity and self- knowledge was invoked to attack a modern Rome of vanity , pomp , ceremony and slavery . This distinction ...
Page 79
... imagery of the Platonic Symposium with that of the Last Supper . Statues from both classical and Christian antiquity decorate the house and garden , and discourses at table range over both fields of reference with equal erudition and ...
... imagery of the Platonic Symposium with that of the Last Supper . Statues from both classical and Christian antiquity decorate the house and garden , and discourses at table range over both fields of reference with equal erudition and ...
Contents
Themes and Forms of Augustan Satire | 32 |
Pope | 99 |
John Gay | 122 |
Copyright | |
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