Familiar Verse Article Swipe
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Daniel Cook
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YOU?
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· 2024
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108917254.024
· OA: W4396595542
YOU?
·
· 2024
· Open Access
·
· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108917254.024
· OA: W4396595542
Throughout his long career, Swift produced a wide range of what we might advisedly call familiar verses. This chapter begins by looking at the light-hearted poems that Swift wrote for a small, private readership, in which he jests with self-mockery and absurdity. The second section explores the poems that Swift wrote during his stints at Market Hill. Light verse can be serious, this chapter argues, and Swift’s best writing can be both amusing and weighty.
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