Reading Swift's Poetry

by Daniel Cook

Poets are makers, etymologically speaking. In practice, they are also thieves. Over a long career, from the early 1690s to the late 1730s, Jonathan Swift thrived on a creative tension between original poetry-making and the filching of familiar material from the poetic archive. The most extensive study of Swift's verse to appear in more than thirty years, Reading Swift's Poetry offers detailed readings of dozens of major poems, as well as neglected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108840957
• ISBN13: 9781108840958
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"