Contemporary Studies of Swift's PoetryJohn Irwin Fischer, Donald Charles Mell, David M. Vieth University of Delaware Press, 1981 - 215 страници Individually the seventeen essays in this volume reflect the particularity of Swift's verse, while together they suggest the patterns of his thought and attest to his artistic achievement. Written by some of the most noted scholars of Swift, these essays are responses to specific challenges in the poet's work, and represent our current understanding of Swift's canon and its relation to the forms of Augustan poetry. |
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Metaphors and Metamorphoses Basic Techniques in the Middle Period of Swifts Poetry 16981719 | 56 |
Rhetorical Order and Emotional Turbulence in Cadenus and Vanessa | 69 |
Faith Hope and Charity in Swifts Poems to Stella | 79 |
Notes on the Developing Motives and Structures of Swifts Poetry | 87 |
Fictive SelfPortraiture in Swifts Poetry | 101 |
Imagination and Satiric Mimesis in Swifts Poetry An Exploratory Discussion | 123 |
Swifts Remedy for Love The Scatological Poems | 136 |
Swift and the agreeable young Lady but extremely lean | 149 |
Freud Swift and Narcissism A Psychological Reading of Strephon and Chloe | 159 |
Swifts Irony Reconsidered | 169 |
A vile Encomium That Panegyric on the Reverend Dn St | 178 |
Arbuckles Panegyric and Swifts Scrub Libel The Documentary Evidence | 191 |
Index | 211 |
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