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    1. Clive Thompson‏Verified account @pomeranian99 25 Feb 2019

      In 1739, Jonathan Swift wrote a viciously satirical poem imagining the reaction to his death. His friends are all two-faced hypocrites; everyone's obsessed with their own fame. Literary Britain in the 18th century was just like Twitter: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45272/verses-on-the-death-of-dr-swift-dspd … Let's read it!

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    2. Clive Thompson‏Verified account @pomeranian99 25 Feb 2019

      The poem is full of hilarious couplets describing a world of constant envy, here everyone freaks out at the possibility that someone they know has *more followers* than them ...pic.twitter.com/8VusR5BGih

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    3. Clive Thompson‏Verified account @pomeranian99 25 Feb 2019

      "What poet would not grieve to see His brethren write as well as he?" The cosiness of the London literary scene -- it was pretty small, everyone knew each other -- feels exactly like the various cohorts on social media like Twitter.pic.twitter.com/6wXCb7hHCW

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    4. Clive Thompson‏Verified account @pomeranian99 25 Feb 2019

      Swift cops to his own envy, particularly of the poet Alexander Pope, whose zeugmatic ability to pack wit into heroic couplets was just bonkers great. (Pope would have killed it on Twitter, BTW. 280 characters? Eh, that's for chumps: Many of his best couplets barely cracked 100)pic.twitter.com/BsZxwBrcC4

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    5. Clive Thompson‏Verified account @pomeranian99 25 Feb 2019

      Swift has fun imagining all the brutal stuff people would say about him after his death. Apparently the queen had promised him some medals, and never gave 'em to him. Since he was super vain himself, this clearly bugged him, and he gets vengeance in his depiction here ...pic.twitter.com/PUA6Yzl9mA

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    6. Clive Thompson‏Verified account @pomeranian99 25 Feb 2019

      "Friends", in this poem, are about a meaningful a connection as "Friends" on Facebook.pic.twitter.com/hWr5KcUh6F

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    7. Clive Thompson‏Verified account @pomeranian99 25 Feb 2019

      But the *most* social-media aspect of this poem? It occurs halfway, when Swift imagines an "impartial" person rising to his defense. The entire second half of this 485-line poem is this anonymous person talking about how awesome Swift really was. This is, of course ...pic.twitter.com/FDsroCADWV

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Feb 2019
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      And Pope published his Homer translations basically via what we would now call crowd-funding -- a mass patronage to pay him while he worked at it.

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        1. Clive Thompson‏Verified account @pomeranian99 25 Feb 2019
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          Precisely. Indeed, quite a lot of literary publishing for a looooong time was that model, as per the "subscription" model that Pound used for "The Waste Land"

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