sentences:  Where Swift had had classical authors and Tory authors sweeping the field of their whig and modern commentators, Cooke had "moderns" and whig authors defeating Alexander Pope and other "tory" authors.That same year, he published an essay in the "Daily Journal" examining the Thersites section of Pope's "Iliad" which showed many faults of translation.In 1726, he wrote "The Bath, or, The Knights of the Bath."