Swift: poetical repurposer
Poets steal. Or, to put it politely, borrow. Jonathan Swift preposterously claimed to do neither. He did so ironically, however, by lifting a line from John Denham's On Mr Abraham Cowley and putting it into the mouth of a hypothetical, ignorant critic elegizing “Swift”: Denham's “what he w...
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Duke University Press
2024
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