Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
By Jonathan Swift, Angus Ross, David WoolleyThe numerous selections in this volume give, for the first time, a true idea of the range of Swift's writing over half a century.
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Jonathan Swift: The Selected Poems
By Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift: The Selected Poems
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Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel
By John StubbsPhilemon and Baucis gain the right clothes for a parson and his wife. After many cheerful years, at the brink of death they are turned into yews, side by side in the churchyard, having left the parish in a thriving state for their ...
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Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In
By Eugene HammondMrs. Raymond's daughter wanted the house for a toy, and her mother offered the parish clerk a pot of ale to pay for it. But Walls's clerk is indignant: The Clerk said to her in a Heat, What? sell my Master's Country Seat?
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Jonathan Swift: Our Dean
By Eugene Hammond... Hessy is distressed about “two or three relapse's” Molkin has had since she and Moll had come to Celbridge (C, ... though he writes that Gulliver's dignity was hurt because he was being used by the maid of honor merely as a toy.
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Jonathan Swift: A Critical Introduction
By Denis DonoghueSamuel Beckett has capitalised upon the tradition. In Beckett's later novels hundreds of paragraphs record ennui so engagingly that the reader asks, can it really be so boring if it yields these diverting sentences?
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Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal (English Edition)
By Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift suggests in his "A Modest Proposal" that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for the upper class.
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Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings : Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism
By Jonathan Swift“Contexts” features a generous selection of contemporary materials, among them Swift's letters, autobiographical documents, and personal writings.“Criticism” provides readers with a wide chronological and thematic range of scholarly interpretations, divided...
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Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
By Leo DamroschFrom a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language
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Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
By Leo DamroschDraws on discoveries made in the past three decades to paint a new portrait of the satirist, speculating on his parentage, love life, and relationships while claiming that the public image he projected was intentionally misleading.
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Jonathan Swift
By Nigel WoodThis collection of critical thinking situates the satire of Jonathan Swift within both its eighteenth-century contexts and our modern anxieties about personal identity and communication.
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Jonathan Swift
By Brean S. HammondThis book offers an accessible, single-volume introduction to a wider range of Jonathan Swift's writing than is usually covered in such treatments of him. Primarily a work of biographically-inflected literary...
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Jonathan Swift
By Robert HuntingProfiles the life of the author of "Gulliver's Travels," and analyzes this novel as well as his poems
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Jonathan Swift: Poems
By Jonathan SwiftIn this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
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Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In
By Eugene HammondWhen Swift and Esther Johnson visited her mother with Lady Giffard in 1708, this quarrel had not yet taken place. In 1710–1711, after the quarrel, Swift refused to see Lady Giffard until she apologized to him, but he and she continued ...
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Jonathan Swift
By Alexander Norman JeffaresJonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift: Major Works
By Jonathan SwiftThis authoritative edition brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career--prose, poetry, and letters--to give the essence of his work and thinking.
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Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In
By Eugene HammondI hope in these two books to come closer than past biographies to capturing how it felt to Swift himself to live his life. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Jonathan Swift: Our Dean
By Eugene HammondThis book faces squarely the likelihood that Swift had a physical affair with Esther Vanhomrigh between 1719 and 1723, and reassesses in the light of that likelihood his conflicting relations with Esther Vanhomrigh and Esther Johnson.
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Jonathan Swift
By Harold Bloom, Daniel CookBest known as the author of ""Gulliver's Travels"", Jonathan Swift is one of literature's great satirists.