Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... spirit of enthusiasm . . . . My friend designs to go on with another work against winter , which he intends to call , The Modern Poets , a people no less mistaken in their opinions of being inspired than the other . " Indeed ...
... spirit of enthusiasm . . . . My friend designs to go on with another work against winter , which he intends to call , The Modern Poets , a people no less mistaken in their opinions of being inspired than the other . " Indeed ...
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... Spirit . " 29 And yet at the level of personality it may not be inappropriate to speculate that for Swift himself these " illapses " of the spirit are part of the risk a religious man necessarily runs . Because it draws so deeply from ...
... Spirit . " 29 And yet at the level of personality it may not be inappropriate to speculate that for Swift himself these " illapses " of the spirit are part of the risk a religious man necessarily runs . Because it draws so deeply from ...
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... spirit ) figuratively and physically , who take their beginnings from the distempered Jack . In the midst of the comedy , however , as so many critics have seen , Swift is making the serious point that " the corruption of the Senses is ...
... spirit ) figuratively and physically , who take their beginnings from the distempered Jack . In the midst of the comedy , however , as so many critics have seen , Swift is making the serious point that " the corruption of the Senses is ...
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CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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