Re: Screens

In <4afb1ba3.35406875@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 11/11/2009
at 08:58 PM, raltbos@xxxxxxxxx (Richard Bos) said:

Swift writes almost as a modern writer. Pope is rather more obscure in
his formulations.

Both were written in Modern English. Swift's contemporaries did have
trouble understanding him, but that was because their sarcasm detectors
were inoperative.

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