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45. Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

On poetry : a rapsody / [by Jonathan Swift] (Dublin, printed ; London : Reprinted and sold by J. Huggonson, 1733)

45. Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. On poetry : a rapsody

In this poem Swift comments on his contemporaries and the prevailing mode of attacking each other in verse,

So Nat’ralists observe, a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey,
And these have smaller fleas to bite ‘em,
And so proceed ad infinitum:
Thus ev’ry Poet in his Kind,
Is bit by him that comes behind.

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