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... satire was a way of understanding the world . The poetic form was not incidental to their capacity to see and make ... satire enabled him to include within his poetic vision of order those aspects of the world which were , in his eyes ...
... satire was a way of understanding the world . The poetic form was not incidental to their capacity to see and make ... satire enabled him to include within his poetic vision of order those aspects of the world which were , in his eyes ...
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The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan Satire C. J. Purvis. 4 The Satirical Understanding Dryden's Satires The idea that satire can be a form of understanding , that the writer might see and understand more through the satir ...
The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan Satire C. J. Purvis. 4 The Satirical Understanding Dryden's Satires The idea that satire can be a form of understanding , that the writer might see and understand more through the satir ...
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... satirist's own sensibility which the writer would be unlikely to look at if he were not working in the satirical medium . By its very rejection , satire forms a bridge to these territories — and it is this bridge which has ambivalent ...
... satirist's own sensibility which the writer would be unlikely to look at if he were not working in the satirical medium . By its very rejection , satire forms a bridge to these territories — and it is this bridge which has ambivalent ...
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