Sunday, June 21, 2015

Daily Dose


From Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age, Volume 1, Mr Swift and his Contemporaries, by Irvin Ehrenpreis

OLD SHOE

"Swift half-boasted to his cousin, 'I cannot write anything easy to be understood though it were but in praise of an old shoes.'"

From Chapter Four Early Poems (II)

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