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    A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General"
    A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General"
    A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General"
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    A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General"

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    A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535832595
    A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General"

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      A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General

      Jonathan Swift

      1765

      Introduction

      Jonathan Swift's A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General was written in 1722 upon the death of the English general John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough. The poem was first published formally in 1765, when it appeared in Jonathan Swift, Works, edited by John Hawkesworth. Churchill, the duke disparaged in the poem, had a checkered diplomatic and military career. Thus, he became the object of an unsympathetic satirical elegy by Swift, who was one of his leading political enemies.

      Swift is known as a great prose satirist rather than as a poet, although he wrote a voluminous amount of poetry, and A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General certainly falls well within his favored mode of expression. Swift is universally known for his novel Gulliver's Travels, a sharp, bitter, and angry satire on everything from the nature of the English government to human nature itself. He is also author of prose satires such as A Tale of a Tub, a commentary on the corruptions of the Christian religion; The Battle of the Books, his entrance into an ongoing learned argument over the superiority of ancient or modern writers; and A Modest Proposal, a tract in which he suggests selling Irish babies of under a year old to rich Englishmen for food as a way to deal with the problem of Irish poverty.

      The text of Swift's A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General can be found in The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, edited by Jay Parini and published by Thomson Wadsworth in

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