{"id":18994,"date":"2010-11-30T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=18994"},"modified":"2010-11-30T00:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T05:00:47","slug":"jonathan-swift-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/11\/30\/jonathan-swift-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3o2sfM05O4U<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A Description of the Morning&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Swift\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Swift<\/a>&#8216;s birthday (1667-1745)<\/p>\n<p>Frye in &#8220;The Imaginative and the Imaginary&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The eighteenth century was the period in which this view of the imagination struggled with, and was finally defeated by, an opposed conception which came to power in the Romantic movement.\u00a0 At the beginning of the century we have Swift, for whom established authority in church and state was the only thing in human life strong enough to restrain the desperately irrational soul of man.\u00a0 In his day the conception of &#8220;melancholy&#8221; 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