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SWIFT, Jonathan
On poetry, a rapsody.
Dublin, reprinted at London,, 1733. Folio, 28 pp., three minute wormholes; completely unbound and uncut, stitched as issued, just fraying at spine; boxed. First edition, a fine unsophisticated copy of Swift's own favourite among his poems. The imprint's mention of an earlier Dublin edition is baloney. A Dublin edition did actually appear the following year (the printers were arrested), as did a second London edition.
Swift's witty and laconic description of the best way to develop a poetic style whilst simultaneously escaping the ire of 'learn'd Commentators' recommends the dogged imitation of stale convention and fashion, preferably allied with the use of slander hidden behind pseudonyms and initials. His metaphor is a classic of bathos:'So Geographers in Afric-Maps/ With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps;/ And o'er uninhabitable Downs/ Place Elephants for want of Towns'.
When all else fails, he recommends becoming a critic, famously making the observation, that a 'Flea':'Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey,/ And these have smaller Fleas to bite 'em,/ And so proceed ad infinitum'.
Foxon, S888; Hayward, 153; Rothschild, 2147; Teerink, 741.
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