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Imitation and Optimism: The Essays of Alexander Pope

Send us Fan MailAlexander Pope, whom some critics regard as the most important poet of the early 18th century, set out to comprehensively explain the rules that governed art, poetry, and humanity itself. And, it turns out, they're all the same rules.Support the showPlease like, s ...  Show more

A Critique of Reason: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Send us Fan MailWhile many may think of Swift's magnificent octopus as a mere children's adventure tale, it is, in fact, one of the darkest and most troubling satires in the English language. Written as the Enlightenment began asserting rationality as the measure of all things, G ...  Show more

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