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There is nothing to lose and plenty to gain in teaching Swift’s Midnights and Shakespeare’s Sonnets together. There’s no dumbing-down, and no need for reductive assertions about who is “better”.
The study of Swift’s great works, alongside those of Shakespeare and Aristotle, is becoming a fixture of courses at Australia’s top universities, as academics challenge entrenched ideas about what constitutes worthy art.