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Title: Jonathan Swift’s «On Poetry: A Rapsody»

Jonathan Swift’s «On Poetry: A Rapsody»

A Critical Edition with a Historical Introduction and Commentary

by Melanie Just (Author)
©2005 Thesis 316 Pages
English Studies
Series: Münsteraner Monographien zur englischen Literatur / Münster Monographs on English Literature, Volume 29

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
316
Year
2005
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631532652
Language
English
Keywords
Swift, Jonathan On poetry: a rapsody Horaz Pope, Alexander Boileau, Nicolas Ars Poetica Satire England
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2004. 315 pp.

Biographical notes

Melanie Just (Author)

The Author: Melanie Maria Just studied English, Latin, and Greek at the University of Münster and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was awarded the degree of Magister Artium at Münster in 2001; she submitted her doctoral dissertation to the Faculty of Arts at Münster in 2003. From 1999 to 2003 she worked at the Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies at the University of Münster, and is currently employed as Research Assistant at the University of Bonn.

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