A superior blast associated with a name such as Pope or Swift (8)
I believe the answer is:
augustan
'as pope or swift' is the definition.
(Pope and Swift were Augustan writers)
'a superior blast associated with a name' is the wordplay.
'a superior blast' becomes 'august' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'associated with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'name' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation e.g. on forms).
'august'+'a'+'n'='AUGUSTAN'
'such' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for augustan that I've seen before include "classical writer" , "Pope, say" .)