satirists in dialogue Griffin, Dustin H. creator author text xxu 2010 monographic eng

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260 pages "Swift and Pope were lifelong friends and fellow satirists with shared literary sensibilities. But there were significant differences - demographic, psychological, and literary - between them: an Anglican and a Roman Catholic, an Irishman and an Englishman, one deeply committed to politically engaged poetry, and the other reluctant to engage in partisanship and inclined to distinguish poetry from politics. Dustin Griffin argues that we need to pay more attention to those differences, which both authors recognised and discussed. Their letters, poems, and satires can be read as stages in an ongoing conversation or satiric dialogue: each often wrote for the other, sometimes addressing him directly, sometimes emulating or imitating. In some sense, each was constantly replying to the other. From their lifelong dialogue emerges not only the extraordinary affection and admiration they felt for Dustin H. Griffin Correspondence Friends and associates English Satire English Satirists History and criticism Criticism and interpretation Biography Swift, jonathan, 1667-1745 828.509 SWI 9780521761239 0521761239 InACL 260927 20260927132837.0 246634 eng