Satire, lampoon, libel, slander by Michael Seidel The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740 According to Samuel Johnson’s excellent 1755 Dictionary –which he almost did in his own- satire is a censorious poem, properly distinguished by the generality of its reflections but all too often confused with a lesser form, lampoon, distinguished by the [...]
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