Description
Book SynopsisPresents a range of Swift's writing, including not only the major literary prose works but also substantial poetic and political writings. This title includes a selection of contemporary materials, along with criticism, a chronology and bibliography.
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction
A Note on the Texts
The Texts of The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift
EARLY SATIRES AND POLITICAL WRITINGS (1704-1711)
A Tale of a Tub
The Battle of the Books
The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity
The Examiner, no. 16. November 23, 1710
A Short Character of his Excellency Thomas Earl of Wharton
II. PARODIES, HOAXES, SOTTISIERS (1703-1745)
A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick
Predictions for the Year 1708
The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions
A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.
The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Eilliston from A Compleat Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation Directions to Servants
III. WRITINGS ON IRELAND (1707-1737)
The Story of the Injured Lady and The Answer to the Injured Lady
Sermon, Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland
A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately entered into Holy Orders
A Letter to a Young Lady, On Her Marriage
Drapier's Letters I
Drapier's Letters IV
A Short View of the State of Ireland
A Modest Proposal
A Proposal for Giving Badges to the Beggars
IV. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
V. POEMS
Verses Wrote in a Lady's Ivory Table-Book
To Their Excellancies … The Humble Petition of Frances Harris
Baucis and Philemon
A Description of the Morning
A Description of a City Shower
Cadenus and Vanessa
The Author upon Himself
Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter
On Stella's Birth-Day
Phyllis, or The Progress of Love
The Progress of Beauty
The Progress of Poetry
To Stella, Visiting me in my Sickness
To Stella, who collected and transcribed his Poems
Stella's Birth-day
To Stella on Her Birth-day
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a late Famous General
The Progress of Marriage
Stella's Birth-Day. A great Bottle of Wine, long buried, being that Day dug up
Stella at Wood-Park
To Stella
Prometheus
Stella's Birthday
On Wood the Iron-monger
A Receipt to Restore Stella's Youth
Stella's Birth-day
Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged
Holyhead. Sept. 25, 1727
Irel.d
Directions for Making a Birth-day Song
A Dialogue between an eminent Lawyer and Dr. Swift Dean of St. Patrick's
Traulus
The Lady's Dressing Room
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed
Strephon and Chloe
Cassinus and Peter, a Tragical Elegy
To Mr Gay
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
To a Lady
On Poetry: A Rapsody
The Yahoo's Overthrow
The Legion Club
Contexts
CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING LETTERS, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND PERSONAL WRITINGS
From Journal to Stella, Letter VI: Swift to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley, October 10, 1710
From Journal to Stella, Letter XXXII: Swift to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley, October 9, 1711
Swift to Alexander Pope, September 29, 1725
Swift to Alexander Pope, November 26, 1725
Swift to Charles Wogan, July-August 2, 1732
Swift to William Pulteney, Mary 12, 1775
Of Mean and Great Figures
Family of Swift
Death of Mrs. Johnson
Thoughts on Various Subjects
Some thoughts on Free-thinking
Thoughts on Religion
Further Thoughts on Religion
From William Wotton, "Observations upon The Tale of the Tub" (1705)
Alexander Pope, Poems on Gulliver's Travels
Criticism
1745-1940
Henry Fielding [Obituary of Swift]
Samuel Johnson [On A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels]
Samuel Johnson [Life of Swift]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge [on Gulliver's Travels]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge [on Gulliver's Travels]
William Makepeace Thackeray [on Gulliver's Travels and Swift's last days]
D. H. Lawrence [on Swift's Celia]
W. B. Yeats [on Swift, Georgian Ireland, and Stella]
F. R. Leavis * "The Irony of Swift"
André Breton [Swift and Black Humor]
AFTER 1940 AND BY SUBJECT
A TALE OF A TUB
Hugh Kenner * [The Tale and the book]
Marcus Walsh * "Text, ‘Text,' and Swift's Tale of a Tub"
Irvin Ehrenpreis * "The Battle of the Books"
THE POEMS
Peneople Wilson * "Feminism and the Augustans"
Derek Mahon * [On Swift's Poems]
POLITICS (ENGLAND AND IRELAND)
Ian Higgins * "Swift's Politics"
S. J. Connolly * "Swift and Protestant Ireland"
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
George Orwell * "Politics vs. Literature"
R. S. Crane * "The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the History of Ideas"
Jenny Mezciens * "Utopia and the ‘Thing which is not'"
Claude Rawson * "Swift's ‘I' Narrators"
Jonathan Swift: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
