TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griffin,Dustin H.
TI  - Swift and pope: satirists in dialogue 
SN  - 9780521761239
U1  - 828.509 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Friends and associates
KW  - English Satire
KW  - English Satirists
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Biography
KW  - Swift, jonathan, 1667-1745
N2  - "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
ER  -