The Jonathan Swift Page


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( 1667-1745 )

Major Works
Gulliver's Travels is available in Oxford World's Classics and Penguin editions. For some other titles see A Tale of a Tub and Related Pieces. Edited with an introduction by Angus Ross and David Wooley. Oxford, 1986. Pat Rogers has edited and introduced the Complete Poems modernized. Penguin. The Writings of Jonathan Swift is a Norton Critical Edition, edited by Robert A. Greenberg and William B. Piper. Greenberg has edited Gulliver's Travels for the same series.
A Tale of a Tub ( 1704 ). On Line from Lehigh U.
Battle of the Books ( 1704 ).
The Abolishing of Christianity ( 1708 ).
Meditation upon a Broomstick ( 1710 ).
Journal to Stella ( 1710-13 ). On Line from Paddy Bullard.
Proposal for Correcting... the English Tongue ( 1712 ). On Line from Jack Lynch.
" Cadenus and Vanessa " ( 1713 ).
The Drapier's Letters ( 1724 ).
Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ). On Line; Also On Line at Renascence Editions.
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen ( 1729 ).On Line
" The Day Of Judgment " ( 1731 ). On Line from Portable Poetry.
" Verses on the Death of Dr Swift " ( 1731 ). On Line from Jack Lynch.
Correspondence. Five Volumes. Edited by D. Nichol Smith. Oxford, 1963-65.
Swift Resources on the Web.

About Swift
Irwin Ehrenpreis, Swift: The Man, His Works and the Age Three Volumes. Methuen, 1962-83.
Ricardo Quintana, Swift: An Introduction. Oxford, 1955.
A Biographical Sketch from Kirjasto.
Jonathan Swift from Bartleby.
Swift Criticism from Internet Public Library.

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