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Alexander 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.

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While 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, Gulliver's Travels questions the very premises of western culture themselves.

Link to Gulliver's Travels: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17157/17157-h/17157-h.htm

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I hope you've brought your appetite, because today we're looking at some of Dr. Swift's shorter prose satires (along with a couple of poems) and he certainly gives us plenty to chew on.

"A Description of the Morning": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45266/a-description-of-the-morning

"A Description of a City Shower": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50578/a-description-of-a-city-shower

"The Battle of the Books": https://www.gutenberg.org/files/623/623-h/623-h.htm

"A Tale of a Tub": https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4737

"A Modest Proposal": https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm

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