ô. . . Professor Rawson is extremely good on detail and analysis, his comments on particular passages in Swift are invariably persuasive. àö û Times Literary Supplement
Rawson is primarily concerned with ôunofficialö energies that work below the surface of SwiftÆs conscious themes. He investigates the connections between these energies and certain extremist writers of later periods, including Breton, Mailer, and Yeats, as well as the underlying similarities between Swift and other 18th-century writers, like Pope, Johnson, and Sterne.
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