English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth Century

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University of Delaware Press, 2007 - Literary Criticism - 271 pages
This book discusses Imitations of the ancient Roman verse satirists Horace, Juvenal, and Perseus published in Britain in the first half of the eighteenth century. It endeavors to put major writers such as Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson in the context of lesser writers of the period. It also devotes attention to other canonical writers such as Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, and Christopher Smart.

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Acknowledgments
9
The First Political Imitation of Juvenal
23
Imitators Imitating Swift Imitating Horace
53
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William Kupersmith is Professor of English at the University of Iowa.

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