In Defense of Reading: A Reader's Approach to Literary CriticismReuben Arthur Brower, Richard Poirier |
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Page 177
... Swift likes the country better than the city . Obviously , something that the normal reader does not expect has been going on in the poem . It is time to discard the pretense and find out what Swift is up to . If , at the beginning of ...
... Swift likes the country better than the city . Obviously , something that the normal reader does not expect has been going on in the poem . It is time to discard the pretense and find out what Swift is up to . If , at the beginning of ...
Page 187
... Swift is evi- dently making fun of elegant poetic compliments . Along with the easily recognizable mock - pastoral talk about nymphs - and one is suspicious of all Swift's nymphs - one can observe inelegantly pre- cise references to the ...
... Swift is evi- dently making fun of elegant poetic compliments . Along with the easily recognizable mock - pastoral talk about nymphs - and one is suspicious of all Swift's nymphs - one can observe inelegantly pre- cise references to the ...
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... Swift . " If the old - fashioned question , " whether Pope was a poet , " were ever seriously asked about Swift , it would be to such poems that one would point to support the John- sonian rejoinder , " If this be not poetry , where is ...
... Swift . " If the old - fashioned question , " whether Pope was a poet , " were ever seriously asked about Swift , it would be to such poems that one would point to support the John- sonian rejoinder , " If this be not poetry , where is ...
Contents
Fiction and History | 11 |
Lyric and Narrative Poetry | 22 |
Frosts Poetry of Dialogue | 38 |
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