Satire 上海文通大掌 Swift turned to satire after serious proposals failed to effect any changes in the Irish economic situation. "Satire is a sort of glass,wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own,which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets in the world,and that so very few are offended within it.” ------Jonathan Swift
Satire • Swift turned to satire after serious proposals failed to effect any changes in the Irish economic situation. • “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own, which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended within it.” ------Jonathan Swift
上海气通大学 "Swift has a terrible intensity of vision,capable of picking out a hidden single truth and then magnifying and distorting it.” -----comment by George Orwell "The disturbing characteristics of his genius is his peculiar emotional intensity,which exhibits itself constantly in negation and rejection." ------comment by F.R.Levis
• “Swift has a terrible intensity of vision, capable of picking out a hidden single truth and then magnifying and distorting it.” -----comment by George Orwell • “The disturbing characteristics of his genius is his peculiar emotional intensity, which exhibits itself constantly in negation and rejection.” ------comment by F. R. Levis