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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Donne, John

Donne, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Satyres

Satire is a venerable literary form which treats human institutions with
wit, sarcasm, irony, and humor, with the object, presumably, of bringing about
a reform of those institutions. The models for most later satire were the
poems of Juvenal and Persius, which were rather urbane, general reflections on
the follies and foibles of the human race. Donne's Satyres deal more
specifically with the social types to be met with in late Elizabethan London,
and in this sense anticipate (and may even have influenced) the satirical
comedies of Jonson and other ...

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