%0 Book
%A Melanie Just
%D 2021
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T Jonathan Swift’s «On Poetry: A Rapsody»
%B A Critical Edition with a Historical Introduction and Commentary
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1098321
%X On Poetry: A Rapsody is one of Jonathan Swift’s most complex and controversial poems. This study presents, for the first time, a detailed analysis and interpretation of what, on a surface level, has to be called a mock ars poetica, but which, on a deeper level, is a highly allusive political satire. The main emphasis has been placed on providing a commentary which seeks to make this 18th-century text within its historical, political, and religious context comprehensible to present-day readers.
%K Swift, Jonathan, On poetry: a rapsody, Horaz, Pope, Alexander, Boileau, Nicolas, Ars Poetica, Satire, England
%G English