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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Huvudupphovsman: Cox, O
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: Duke University Press 2024