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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 August 2020
      13 August 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108888172
      9781108840958
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108888172
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 326 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
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    Poets are makers, etymologically speaking. In practice, they are also thieves. Over a long career, from the early 1690s to the late 1730s, Jonathan Swift thrived on a creative tension between original poetry-making and the filching of familiar material from the poetic archive. The most extensive study of Swift's verse to appear in more than thirty years, Reading Swift's Poetry offers detailed readings of dozens of major poems, as well as neglected and recently recovered pieces. This book reaffirms Swift's prominence in competing literary traditions as diverse as the pastoral and the political, the metaphysical and the satirical, and demonstrates the persistence of unlikely literary tropes across his multifaceted career. Daniel Cook also considers the audacious ways in which Swift engages with Juvenal's satires, Horace's epistles, Milton's epics, Cowley's odes, and an astonishing array of other canonical and forgotten writers.

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    ‘… deeply learned and scholarly … deserves a wide audience beyond eighteenth-century studies.’

    Claude Willan Source: Eighteenth-Century Studies

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