Energy and Order in the Poetry of Swift

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Bucknell University Press, 1980 - 241 страници
This study focuses on a pattern of stylistic tendencies in Swift's poetry. The tendencies are essentially of two contrasting types -- energy and order. The author discusses how Swift's poetry departs from certain orderly forms of discourse that have traditionally been associated with "Augustan" literature.

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Wild Excursions
19
The Subversive Image
54
Enumerations Miscellanies and the Irreducible Particular
79
The Ordering Design
120
The Design under Stress
154
Conclusion
222
Notes
227
Bibliography
233
Index
239
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