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Although Alexander Pope addressed his works exclusively to the educated and leisured classes, he also attacked the members of these classes for their immorality and their bad taste, two falings that were usually associated in Pope's mind.Jonathan Swift shared many of Pope's attitudes and ideals, and in his exposure of the mean and sordid in human behavior his works o resemble Hogarth's art.

Although Alexander Pope addressed his works exclusively to the educated and leisured classes, he also attacked the members of these classes for their immorality and their bad taste, two falings that were usually associated in Pope's mind. Pope loved order, discipline, and craftsmanship; both he and Swift were appalled by the squalor and shoddiness in art, manners, and morals, that underlay the polished surfaces of Augustan life. This violent and filthy underside of eighteenth-century life is copiously illustrated in the paintings and engravings of William Hogarth (1697-1764).
Jonathan Swift shared many of Pope's attitudes and ideals, and in his exposure of the mean and sordid in human behavior his works
• resemble Hogarth's art. Neither writer, then, felt smug or satisfied with the world, as did many of the Augustans. They deplored the corrupt politics of the time and the growing commercialism and materialism of the English people.