Abstract
Reassesses James Boswell's satiric poem, and self-portrait, "The Cub" (1762), and Boswell's known affinity for the writings of Sterne, arguing for a wider satiric context in early Augustan satiric poetry, in Pope and especially Swift, and analysing the poem's multiple shifts of satiric viewpoint and allusion.
Recommended Citation
Walker, Robert G.
(2021)
"Boswell’s 'The Cub' and the Shadow of Augustan Satire,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 47:
Iss.
1, 91–104.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol47/iss1/8