Reading Swift's Poetry
- Author: Daniel Cook, University of Dundee
- Date Published: August 2020
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108840958
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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.
Read more- Critically examines Swift's poems, one of the most important bodies of poetry produced in the eighteenth century, and other works, in the most extensive study of its kind to appear in more than thirty years
- Draws from the latest research in a variety of disciplines, also provides a condensed overview of and critical engagement with prior Swift scholarship
- Repositions Swift in a range of competing poetic and literary traditions, revealing surprising connections between Swift and other major and lesser known classical and modern writers
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'… deeply learned and scholarly … deserves a wide audience beyond eighteenth-century studies.' Claude Willan, Eighteenth-Century Studies
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- Date Published: August 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108840958
- length: 264 pages
- dimensions: 150 x 235 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.61kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Early poems
2. Moderns and ancients
3. Love and books
4. Telling tales
5. Market Hill
6. Swift's remains.
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