Swift publishes A Tale of a Tub
Poet involved
What happened
In 1704, Jonathan Swift published A Tale of a Tub. The prose satire attacked religious excess, modern learning and critical vanity through wild digression and allegory. It became one of the boldest works of early eighteenth-century satire.
Literary impact
Swift expanded the possibilities of satirical voice, irony and narrative instability. His methods influenced poets and prose writers who used masks, mock scholarship and grotesque comedy to expose intellectual fraud.
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