Maurice Johnson (essay date May 1958)
SOURCE: Johnson, Maurice. “The Structural Impact of A Modest Proposal.” Bucknell Review 7, no. 4 (May 1958): 234-40.
[In the following essay, Johnson weighs the influence A Modest Proposal derives solely from its syntactical and organizational format.]
A Modest Proposal (1729) has been singled out as the one incontestable example of poetic passion in English Augustan literature. Its pervasive irony, metaphorical contrasts, and paradox have been described as operating on a “grander...
Source: Literary Criticism (1400-1800), ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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