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The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift: A Norton Critical Edition: 0 (Norton Critical Editions)

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“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 into two sections. The first, “1745–1940,” includes assessments by Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Makepeace Thackeray, D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, F. R. Leavis, and André Breton, among others. The second, “After 1940,” is by subject and collects critical discussions of A Tale of the Tub, the poems, the English and Irish politics, and Gulliver’s Travels, by Hugh Kenner, Marcus Walsh, Irvin Ehrenpreis, Penelope Wilson, Derek Mahon, S. J. Connolly, George Orwell, R. S. Crane, Jenny Mezciems, Ian Higgins, and Claude Rawson.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

About the Author

Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, to English parents, in 1667. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford, he was ordained in the Anglican Church in 1795 and later served for more than three decades as Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. In 1704, he published the religious-themed A Tale of a Tub, the first of the trenchantly satirical works on which his reputation rests. Along with his friends Alexander Pope and John Gay, Swift helped make the eighteenth century a golden age of social and political satire in Britain. After a brief stint as a Tory pamphleteer in London, the self-styled Irish patriot returned to Dublin in 1714. In later years, he vented what he called his “savage indignation” in a wide range of literary registers, from the Rabelaisian humor of his masterpiece, Gulliver’s Travels (1726), to the dystopian vision of infanticide in A Modest Proposal (1729). He died in 1745.

Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination: 1492–1945, English Satire and the Satire Tradition, and Satire and Sentiment, 1660–1830: Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition. He is General Editor of the Works of Jonathan Swift (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor, with Ian Higgins, of the Oxford World Classics edition of Gulliver's Travels.

Ian Higgins is the author of Swift's Politics: A Study in Disaffection (1994) and Jonathan Swift (2004), and is an editor (with Claude Rawson) of Gulliver's Travels (2005). He is a Reader in English at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, where he teaches courses on early modern and eighteenth-century literature and on British imperial fiction.

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C.O. · 19 October 2019

a pretty great collection with all his major works, as well as some more obscure stuff (letters, poems). Maybe if you're just looking to read his stuff all casual the kwazy kwantity of notes will give you a hard time, but unless you've read a lot of period stuff with its dense grammar and that you won't have such an easy time anyhow.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good edition

N. · 14 June 2021

Excellent notes

Great resource

M.G. · 9 February 2021

For the more casual reader, Gulliver's Travels and a couple of the shorter work--Tale of a Tub; Modest Proposal--would have sufficed; this present collection is a bit heavy. But it is well put together and annotated, and a great resource for those who want more of this great Swiftian satire.

the essential writings of jonanthan swift

C. · 2 July 2013

a book of high quality and elegance. I appreciate much and i decide to take it back with me to China.

Gulliver's Swift

C.B. · 6 September 2016

Swift's poetry gets less attention than his prose, but his poetry is better than that might imply. We know what to expect of Gulliver's Travels or of his bitterly ironic essays such as "A Modest Proposal", but this edition includes much of Swift's poetic works as well, and that makes it of special value.

Great book

E.F. · 24 December 2021

Everything arrived on time and as advertised

Jonathan Swift is a master

l. · 30 January 2014

I bought it to reread "A Modest Proposal" (read it in college) and enjoyed reading the rest of the book very much.

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