A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- First Published: 1734
- Type of Work: Satire
- Genres: Satire, Poetry, Lyric poetry
The Poem
Jonathan Swift’s ironically entitled “A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed,” composed in 1731 and puckishly subtitled “Written for the Honour of the Fair Sex,” reflects the relentless, emphatically unromantic, and savagely satirical vision that marks the later years of Swift’s art. This most unpoetic of poems presents the uproarious process by means of which an eighteenth century London prostitute prepares for sleep—a process which involves her divesting herself of those various artifices with which she seeks to disguise both her physical and moral...
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