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<br> Nokes is a fine narrative writer, adept at providing the social, literary, and political details that give a good sense of a life lived within its varied and ultimately incoherent context....Highly recommended....Should appeal to those interested in Gay, Pope, Swift, and their contemporaries. --Choice<br> An absorbing book....Describes a life which is fascinating because it spans a fascinating period of history. --Literary Review<br> A book which is not only a work of fine scholarship, but also one, admirably written, which offers unbounded satisfaction and intense interest. Finally, one must also compliment the Oxford University Press on a publication of an elegance, even beauty, which is as rare today as it is to find a reader of Gay's poems. --Daily Telegraph<br> Much more than a conventional life-and-works' biography....David Nokes illuminates not just a single career, but also an entire literary milieu. Written with a positively Augustan deftness of style and wit, this is a m

Nokes is a fine narrative writer, adept at providing the social, literary, and political details that give a good sense of a life lived within its varied and ultimately incoherent context....Highly recommended....Should appeal to those interested in Gay, Pope, Swift, and their contemporaries. --Choice<br> An absorbing book....Describes a life which is fascinating because it spans a fascinating period of history. --Literary Review<br> A book which is not only a work of fine scholarship, but also one, admirably written, which offers unbounded satisfaction and intense interest. Finally, one must also compliment the Oxford University Press on a publication of an elegance, even beauty, which is as rare today as it is to find a reader of Gay's poems. --Daily Telegraph<br> Much more than a conventional life-and-works' biography....David Nokes illuminates not just a single career, but also an entire literary milieu. Written with a positively Augustan deftness of style and wit, this is a model literary biography - meticulously researched, delicately argued, and refreshingly free of special pleading. --Sunday Telegraph<br> The author is a don and his book is a scholarly one....It includes extensive comparisons between Gay's poems and those of his contemporaries...researched with impressive thoroughness....Noke writes elegantly. --Sunday Times<br>

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David Nokes is Reader in English at King's College, London. He co-wrote the BBC TV adaptation of Clarissa in 1992, and his book Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (OUP, 1985) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Best Biography. He is also author of No Country for Old Men (1981); and the The Long Exile of Jonathan Swift, (1981).

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