Matthews, Brander: On American Satire in Verse. Harper's
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Smeaton, W. H.: English Satires. London, 1899.
Stokes, F. G. (editor): Epistolæ Obscurorum Vivorum. Chatto and Windus, 1909.
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The satirists themselves who have been sufficiently self-conscious
of their art to discuss it more or less include, on the Continent,
Horace, Juvenal, Lucian, Cervantes, and Boileau; and
in England, Barclay, Skelton, Gascoigne, Marston, Jonson,
Defoe, Swift, Pope, Young, Johnson, Fielding, Churchill, Cowper,
Wolcott, Gifford, Byron, Peacock, Thackeray, Dickens,
Trollope, and Meredith.
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