There’s a certain privilege white authors held in the history of English publications. Usually born to a certain social stature and enabled by education and familial ties to publishers, it’s often hard to fathom the disgrace at seeing how devoted a writer could be to format and pretense but of so little substance. This excerptContinue reading “Expecting devotion in lines from ‘Cadenus to Vanessa’, a lyrical ballad by Jonathan Swift”
