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Comic and satiric literature from the 1670s to the 1740s is characterized by the word play of Augustan wit. John Sitter makes a challenging claim for the importance of wit in the writings of Dryden, Rochester, Prior, Berkeley, Gay, Pope and Swift, as an analytic mode as well as one of stylistic sophistication.Sitter, John is the author of 'Arguments of Augustan Wit', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521044554 and ISBN 0521044553.
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