This 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. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, which alone would have secured his place in the history of English literature. But in addition to this classic fictional satire, Swift wrote numerous works concerning politics, religion, and Ireland, some savage, others humorous, all suffused with his tremendous wit and inventiveness. This anthology includes satirical works such as A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, political pamphlets, pieces for the popular press, poems, and a generous selection from Swift's correspondence. Presented chronologically, the anthology offers a new and clearer awareness of the unity as well as the complexity of Swift's vision, and the powerful bonds between disparate pieces.
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`Review from previous edition 'a very good selection of Swift's writings'' Denis Donoghue, London Review of Books
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Angus Ross is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Sussex.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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GREAT IRISH WRITER STILL FRESHER THAN TODAY,
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Jonathon Swift, a wonderful Irish satirist long before such great Irish twentieth century parodists, ironists and satirists such as Joyce, Shaw, WIlde and Beckett, served as an inspiration for much of what is best in our twentieth century literature. Particularly post-modern is his Tale of the Tub which first satirized the then new conventions of the printed book, as well described by PRof. Hugh Kenner.
This volume gives a full view of the spectrum of Mr. Swift's writings, beyond Gulliver. By the way, do read Gulliver unabridged (not Disney) to understand among other things how he put out the palace fire, and how he served as intimate toy in the land of the giants, and as always, get intelligent commentaries for fullest understanding and insight FOr the greatest in English literature beyond Shakespeare, turn to the Irish, always, odd for a nation whose greatest tale-telling tradition and tour-de-forces remain spoken rather than written.
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Good introduction to Swift,
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I like this book. It gives you a good introduction to Swift. If you like the man, which this book tries to present through letters, then you can later read a more complete book with his writings.
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No Gulliver's Travels,
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I haven't yet read the pieces in this book, but I was disappointed to find out that this book does NOT contain Gulliver's Travels.
One would expect that Jonathan Swift's Great Works would contain his greatest work. One would be wrong.
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THE following Discourse, as it is unquestionably of the same author, so it seems to have been written about the same time with the former; I mean the year 1697, when the famous dispute was on foot about ancient and modern learning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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THE following Discourse, as it is unquestionably of the same author, so it seems to have been written about the same time with the former; I mean the year 1697, when the famous dispute was on foot about ancient and modern learning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir John, Lady Smart, Lord Treasurer, Lord Peter, Lady Answ, King of Spain, King Charles, Lord Lieutenant, Duke of Anjou, Grub Street, Sir Robert Walpole, English Tory, House of Austria, Spanish West Indies, Westminster Hall, House of Commons, Church of Rome, Secretary of State, Church of England, House of Lords, Lord Carteret, Lord Keeper, Houses of Parliament, The Pope, Duke of Marlborough Browse Sample Pages:
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