Jonathan Swift and the Burden of the FutureUniversity of Delaware Press, 1995 - 175 ページ "Alan Chalmers's Jonathan Swift and the Burden of the Future explores Swift's temporal apprehension in the context of the pertinent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious, scientific, and cultural debates. It also compares Swift's imaginative understanding of time with that of such other writers as Juvenal, Rabelais, Milton, Pope, Gray, and Whitman."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... poets ignore the fact that bodily virtues are ephemeral ; and second , they are unaware that tired convention is a dead or dying sort of language . Swift supplies the example of " A poet , starving in a garret , / Conning old topics ...
... poets ignore the fact that bodily virtues are ephemeral ; and second , they are unaware that tired convention is a dead or dying sort of language . Swift supplies the example of " A poet , starving in a garret , / Conning old topics ...
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... poet's rationale is that the " God of Time , " with his elevated view , would be wise to relinquish " future eyes . " The poet asks Can you take delight in viewing This poor isle's approaching ruin ? When thy retrospection vast Sees the ...
... poet's rationale is that the " God of Time , " with his elevated view , would be wise to relinquish " future eyes . " The poet asks Can you take delight in viewing This poor isle's approaching ruin ? When thy retrospection vast Sees the ...
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... poets who contemplate their own demise begin from a position further from the midst of society — a posi- tion already ... poet intermittently addresses these future travelers : “ And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence ...
... poets who contemplate their own demise begin from a position further from the midst of society — a posi- tion already ... poet intermittently addresses these future travelers : “ And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence ...
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List of Abbreviations 11 | 11 |
What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
Satire and the Future | 59 |
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