Q: Pope can fix in one couplet more sense than I can do in six'. Who said this?
a) Jonathan Swift
b) Daniel Defoe
c) Henry Fielding
d) Oliver Goldsmith
Correct answer: a) Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was born on 30th November 1667 and he died on 19 October 1745. He was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist and political pamphleteer. He is regarded as the most famous prose satirist in the English language. He was a master of two styles of Satire, 'the Horatian' and 'Juvenalian styles'. Jonathan Swift said that the Pope can use more sense in one couplet and then I can use more sense in six couplets. Pope is also called the Master of the heroic couplet. He was considered the foremost English Poet of the early eighteenth century.
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