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The Writings of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift

The Writings of Jonathan Swift By Jonathan Swift

The Writings of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift


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Summary

This volume contains the complete and definitive texts of virtually all of Swift's major works, as well as a generous selection of his poetry and other writings.

The Writings of Jonathan Swift Summary

The Writings of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift

Included are Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub, The Battel of the Books, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, numerous essays and other prose pieces, and poems, among them several that are rarely reprinted. All of the texts are scrupulously edited and annotated.

Backgrounds includes correspondence between Swift and members of his circle and observations by his contemporaries.

Criticism offers evaluations by Norman O. Brown, Samuel Holt Monk, Allan Bloom, Nigel Dennis, Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr., A. E. Dyson, William Frost, C. J. Rawson, Kathleen Williams, Martin Price, Robert M. Adams, and Jay Arnold Levine.

An Annotated Bibliography guides the reader to important works for further study.

About Jonathan Swift

Robert A. Greenberg was Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, and taught at Cornell and New York University. He was co-author of Robert Frost: An Introduction and Modern Essays: A Rhetorical Approach, and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Gulliver's Travels. William B. Piper is Professor Emeritus of English at Rice University. He has taught at Cornell University, the University of Louisville, and Western Reserve University. He has published Laurence Sterne, The Heroic Couplet, The Literature of Common Sense, and many scholarly articles.

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GOR009093920
9780393094152
0393094154
The Writings of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift
Used - Well Read
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
19730401
752
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