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Though Swift's voice was his own, his greatest works are satires: his relationships with literary precursors are as a consequence complex and frequently obscure. His oeuvre was influenced, as Pope's and Johnson's would be, by the works of the classical authors, the great "Ancients" whom he revered, but it owed a great deal, as well, both to the works of friends and contemporaries like Addison, Steele, and Pope, whom he admired and collaborated with, and to the works of enemies like Defoe, whose pseudo-matter-of-factness in Robinson Crusoe he satirized in the first book of his own Gulliver's Travels. He was well aware of the ironies inherent in the extent of his indebtedness: it has been pointed out that though he wrote, of himself, "that what he writ