THE POETRY OF JONATHAN SWIFT Allusion and the Development of a Poetic Style

This mint unread copy is bound in cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in mint condition. The poetry of Swift, neglected for more than a century because it did not fit accepted forms, has lately begun to receive the critical attention it deserves. This book, the first to focus on allusions in Swift's poetry, giges new insights into his poetic technique and his growth and development as a poet. Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 - 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Ref PP6.