English 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Aubade, Mac Flecknoe, A Modest Proposal
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He was anglican, and had plenty of connections to people in london. Was an ordained preist in the anglican church. Had a doctorate of divinity, and would become the dean of st patrick"s cathedral. He was quite the satirist, and was part of the scribilarians. He was infamous for his satirical essay in 1729 a modest proposal. There was the idea of men as an animal rational. He had an idea of animal rationaos capos; they often choose to be irrational, over being irrational. However, he was very self conscious of the potential of humanity to be more than what it is, and what it actually is. He argues that people need poets to understand their moral and intellectual limitations; thus there is an elevation of the poet. This was surprising, as it was in a different political orientation. However, the gentleness of the satire fits in with the.
