Borges uses two incisive metaphors to create the effect of some Irish writing on English letters.
‘(Irish writers) … made deep incursions into the territory of English letters, pruning all rhetorical exuberance with frank impiety. Jonathan Swift acted like a corrosive acid on the elation of human hope.’
Source: Jorge Luis Borges, On Writing, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2010, p. 11
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