Essential Articles for the Study of Jonathan Swift's PoetryDavid M. Vieth |
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Page 20
... becomes irrelevant . All the procedures that Swift follows in his poems demonstrate how little the stricter canons ... become self- destructive . In effect , the prose satires are expansions of pro- cedures that are often only suggested ...
... becomes irrelevant . All the procedures that Swift follows in his poems demonstrate how little the stricter canons ... become self- destructive . In effect , the prose satires are expansions of pro- cedures that are often only suggested ...
Page 130
... become coalmen and chimney - sweeps ; the shepherd - swain about to wake and sound his jovial pipe becomes the turnkey counting his flock of thieves as they come in from night - pasture : and this because Swift's is a nature amplified ...
... become coalmen and chimney - sweeps ; the shepherd - swain about to wake and sound his jovial pipe becomes the turnkey counting his flock of thieves as they come in from night - pasture : and this because Swift's is a nature amplified ...
Page 286
... becomes horribly and insult- ingly blurred , and in which rhetorical madness ( of both kinds ) becomes medical — and perhaps incurable . The configurations of limitlessness and incurability in On Poetry : A Rapsody are , of course , in ...
... becomes horribly and insult- ingly blurred , and in which rhetorical madness ( of both kinds ) becomes medical — and perhaps incurable . The configurations of limitlessness and incurability in On Poetry : A Rapsody are , of course , in ...
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