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Swift and Pope : satirists in dialogue
- Title
- Swift and Pope : satirists in dialogue / Dustin Griffin.
- Author
- Griffin, Dustin.
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 260 p. : ill., facsims.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Swift and Pope were lifelong friends and fellow satirists with shared literary sensibilities. But there were significant differences - demographic, psychological, and literary - between them: an Anglican and a Roman Catholic, an Irishman and an Englishman, one deeply committed to politically engaged poetry, and the other reluctant to engage in partisanship and inclined to distinguish poetry from politics. Dustin Griffin argues that we need to pay more attention to those differences, which both authors recognised and discussed. Their letters, poems, and satires can be read as stages in an ongoing conversation or satiric dialogue: each often wrote for the other, sometimes addressing him directly, sometimes emulating or imitating. In some sense, each was constantly replying to the other. From their lifelong dialogue emerges not only the extraordinary affection and admiration they felt for each other, but also the occasional irritation and resentment that kept them both together and apart"--
- Subjects
- Satirists, English > 18th century > Biography
- Satire, English > History and criticism
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 > Correspondence
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 > Friends and associates
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 > Correspondence
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 > Criticism and interpretation
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 > Criticism and interpretation
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 > Friends and associates
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: A Swift-Pope chronology; Introduction: conversing interchangeably; 1. The four last years of Queen Anne; 2. Drive the world before them; 3. Satyrist and philosopher; 4. In the manner of Dr Swift; 5. Last things; Bibliography; Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-5393
- ISBN
- 9780521761239 (hardback)
- 0521761239 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2010021487
- OCLC
- YBP 2010021487
- Author
- Griffin, Dustin.
- Title
- Swift and Pope : satirists in dialogue / Dustin Griffin.
- Imprint
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-5393