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Jonathan Swift's "The Character of Sir Robert Walpole"
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Jonathan Swift's "The Character of Sir Robert Walpole"

Jonathan Swift | Satirist, Poet & Clergyman | Britannica

Today’s poem throws unambiguous shade on one of 18th-century England’s most divisive politicians, and marks out Swift as one of the gutsiest Scriblerians. Happy reading.

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