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Chapter 32 - Literary Scene

Ireland

from Part V - The External World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2024

By
Andrew Carpenter
Edited by
Joseph Hone  and
Pat Rogers
Joseph Hone
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Pat Rogers
Affiliation:
University of South Florida
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This chapter provides an overview of the Irish literary scene during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. There was a growing demand for literature of all kinds and the work of local poets, songwriters, playwrights, and pamphleteers appeared alongside printed material imported from London; local verses and satires circulated widely in manuscript. As a boy, Swift was immersed in this material and in later life he contributed to it. The easy availability of books and pamphlets made Dublin, at least for its better-educated and more affluent citizens, an attractive place to live.

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Jonathan Swift in Context , pp. 255 - 262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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