Swift's LandscapeJohns Hopkins University Press, 1982 - 307 pagina's Swift's Landscape argues for a fundamental reevaluation of Jonathan Swift's place in eighteenth-century literary history. Combining history, biography, and literary criticism, Carole Fabricant restores both Swift's life and his writings to their proper landscape - by emphasizing the influence of the author's Irish involvements and environs on his work. |
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Pagina 120
... walk are three descents by many stone - steps , in the middle and at each end , into a very large parterre ... walks here are all green , the grotto embellished with figures of shell - rock- work , fountains , and water - works . 38 The ...
... walk are three descents by many stone - steps , in the middle and at each end , into a very large parterre ... walks here are all green , the grotto embellished with figures of shell - rock- work , fountains , and water - works . 38 The ...
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... walk , with double rows of large elms , and the walk well gravelled , so that we may walk securely in any weather .... About half way up the walk there is a path that goes up that bank to the remains of an old castle ( as it were ) ...
... walk , with double rows of large elms , and the walk well gravelled , so that we may walk securely in any weather .... About half way up the walk there is a path that goes up that bank to the remains of an old castle ( as it were ) ...
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... walk in the Night " ( PW , 9 : 208 ) . However much Swift may have championed the value of physical exercise and urged his friends to use their legs more , a walk through his landscapes was a most precarious undertaking . External ...
... walk in the Night " ( PW , 9 : 208 ) . However much Swift may have championed the value of physical exercise and urged his friends to use their legs more , a walk through his landscapes was a most precarious undertaking . External ...
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CENTRAL FEATURES OF SWIFTS LANDSCAPE | 24 |
SWIFTS ANTIPASTORAL VISION AND IRELANDS | 55 |
THE SUBVERSION OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE IDEAL | 95 |
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