In one of this author's poems, he imagines a country squire who wants to buy his books from Bernard Lintot, only to be shown trash like Henly's sermons and Stephen Duck's odes.
In one of this author's poems, he imagines a country squire who wants to buy his books from Bernard Lintot, only to be shown trash like Henly's sermons and Stephen Duck's odes. Another of this author's poems begins "Remove me from this land of slaves / Where all are fools, and all are knaves." He agreed with Rochefoucault's maxim "In the adversity of our friends, we find something that doth not displease us" at the beginning of a poem which claims that (*) Pope "can in one couplet fix / more sense than I can do in six," and parodied Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections Upon Several Subjects in his Meditations Upon a Broomstick. He imagined how his friends and enemies would react to his death in a poem which describes his pride in successfully opposing William Wood's coinage scheme. He published his poem "A Description of a City Shower" in The Tatler, which boosted its circulation by using one of his pseudonyms, Isaac Bickerstaff. For 10 points, name this Anglo-Irish author of the Drapier's Letters.
In one of this author's poems, he imagines a country squire who wants to buy his books from Bernard Lintot, only to be shown trash like Henly's sermons and Stephen Duck's odes.
Jonathan Swift