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Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Analysis of the chapter:, Analysis…

- - - - The first are the ones who invent rules for assessing literature and getting the most out of it. They point out errors in books but do not dwell upon them or revel in fault-finding.
      - The second are those who busy themselves with restoring "ancient learning" from old texts.
      - But the "noblest" critics, Swift asserts, are those whose "heroic" spirit moves them to hunt down the tiniest errors and faults in a work.
    - - First, a true critic is always most impressed by the first idea he comes up with—and not, presumably, by anything that involves too much labor or reflection.
      - Second, true critics "swarm" about the best writers, like rats to cheese or wasps to fruit, because they recognize the inherent quality.
      - Third, true critics are obsessed with what other readers discard or ignore. In other words, they are unhappy when a literary "feast" leaves them without many bones to gnaw. In this, they find their true calling and skill, which others might disdain.
- - - - Gresham here refers to Gresham College in London established in 1597 and was considered a reputed institute like Oxford and Cambridge.
      - Whereas Will's refers to Will's Coffeehouse, a place of hangout for John Dryden.
      - Grub Street, located in one of the poorer parts of London, was an early modern center of "lowbrow" literary activity. Proverbially, writers who lived and worked there were hacks: they wrote to supply their booksellers and to get attention and keep the pot boiling, not to aim at greatness or produce works of enduring literary value.
  - - - The four classical winds in Greek mythology include: Boreas (Aquilo in Roman mythology) is the north wind and bringer of cold winter air.
        Zephyrus (Favonius in Latin) is the west wind and bringer of light spring and early-summer breezes.
        Notus (Auster in Latin) is the south wind and bringer of the storms of late summer and autumn.
        Eurus, the southeast[6] (or according to some,[7] the east) wind, was not associated with any of the three Greek seasons, and is the only one of these four Anemoi not mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony or in the Orphic hymns.