The Daily Poem • 12 March 2025

Jonathan Swift's "The Character of Sir Robert Walpole"

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Today’s poem throws unambiguous shade on one of 18th-century England’s most divisive politicians, and marks out Swift as one of the gutsiest Scriblerians. Happy reading.

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