EXAM - English literature 2
subjects, general intention of improving society by exposing its vices and follies.
Jonathan Swift: combined parody, with its imitation of form and style and satire in prose; technique to
create fictional speaker (Gulliver), utter sentiments which intelligent reader recognises as self-satisfied,
egoistical, stupid. Master of understaded irony. Gulliver’s Travels (greatest of satires). Fashionable guise of
travel book, ship surgeon, fantastic locasions, liliput island (pompous habits of liliputs satirised). The
Battle of the Books – mimics the style of excitable journalism in a debate on the relative merits of the
ancients as against the moderns in literature, fought between Bee and Spider. A Tale of a Tub – personates a
madman, satire on „corruption in religion and learning”.
Alexander Pope: 2 great mock-heroic poems, series of Horatian imitations, 4 verse epistles on moral
themes. The Rape of the Lock – based on piece of real-life gossip
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