Michael Cook’s Place

Bits of Genius in a Sea of Mediocrity

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  • Start of section - p469
  • Section timeline - p470
  • Short bio of Swift - p486
  • Excerpt from Gulliver’s Travels - p488
  • The essay A Modest Proposal by Swift - p502
  • A satire called Top of the Food Chain (a good read) - p509
  • Short bio of Pope - p520
  • Heroic Couplets by Pope- p522
  • An excerpt from An Essay on Man by Pope - p524
  • Excerpt from The Rape of the Lock by Pope - p527

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