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Course Description

Summary

This class will concentrate on the Augustan authors Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and Alexander Pope (1688-1744). We will read many of the two writers' major works: from Pope, Essay on Criticism, Essay on Man, The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, Imitations of Horace, Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, and Moral Essays; from Swift, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, Battle of the Books, Tale of a Tub, and An Argument Against Establishing Christianity.