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On Poetry: A Rapsody is one of Jonathan Swift's most complex and controversial poems. This study presents, for the first time, a detailed analysis and interpretation of what, on a surface level, has to be called a mock ars poetica, but which, on a deeper level, is a highly allusive political satire. The main emphasis has been placed on providing a commentary which seeks to make this 18th-century text within its historical, political, and religious context comprehensible to present-day readers.

Jonathan Swift's On Poetry: A Rapsody : A

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      Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/10/2004
      ISBN13: 9783631532652, 978-3631532652
      ISBN10: 3631532652

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      Book Synopsis
      On Poetry: A Rapsody is one of Jonathan Swift's most complex and controversial poems. This study presents, for the first time, a detailed analysis and interpretation of what, on a surface level, has to be called a mock ars poetica, but which, on a deeper level, is a highly allusive political satire. The main emphasis has been placed on providing a commentary which seeks to make this 18th-century text within its historical, political, and religious context comprehensible to present-day readers.

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