Wordsworth And Jonathon Swift

William Wordsworth and Jonathan Swift, 2004.
This paper provides a comparison and contrast of how William Wordsworth and Jonathan Swift both promote changing the world in their writings.

Abstract
The paper compares and contrasts how William Wordsworth and Jonathan Swift promote changing the world in their respective writings. The paper discusses Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" and Swift's "Gulliver's Travels."
From the Paper
"Both Jonathan Swift and William Wordsworth are writers who hope to change the world through the ideas and themes expressed in their writings. So too, both authors believe that human beings need to look to a higher authority to bring out the best in human nature. Swift ,a pre-enlightenment writer, believed that humans and institutions are fallible but that the negative tendencies inherent in humans require institutions to undermine these negative impulses; sin, deception, cruelty, vanity etc.
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