Raillery and Rage: A Study of Eighteenth Century Satire |
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... poem entitled Bibliotheca ( 1712 ) , wrote mockingly : Bentley immortal honour gets By changing Que's to nobler Et's Pope in several places attacked ' Each Word - catcher that lives on syllables ' , each pedant ' who reads not , and but ...
... poem entitled Bibliotheca ( 1712 ) , wrote mockingly : Bentley immortal honour gets By changing Que's to nobler Et's Pope in several places attacked ' Each Word - catcher that lives on syllables ' , each pedant ' who reads not , and but ...
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... poem in which Swift proclaimed that ' Fair Liberty was all his cry ' . As is well known , the Verses on the Death of Dr Swift abound with many glaring and deliberate examples of ' the thing which is not ' . There is the claim that he ...
... poem in which Swift proclaimed that ' Fair Liberty was all his cry ' . As is well known , the Verses on the Death of Dr Swift abound with many glaring and deliberate examples of ' the thing which is not ' . There is the claim that he ...
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... poem , and Swift the supposedly dead subject of the elegy . These last two versions of Swift are kept in balance by the alternative ' voice ' of the poem , the ' impartial ' eulogist at the Rose tavern whose stance of detached intimacy ...
... poem , and Swift the supposedly dead subject of the elegy . These last two versions of Swift are kept in balance by the alternative ' voice ' of the poem , the ' impartial ' eulogist at the Rose tavern whose stance of detached intimacy ...
Contents
Themes and Forms of Augustan Satire | 32 |
Pope | 99 |
John Gay | 122 |
Copyright | |
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