Essential Writ Jon Swift Nce Pa
ISBN: 9780393930658 | 0393930653
Edition: 00Format: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 9/17/2009
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This Norton Critical Edition is the only one-volume edition that presents the full range of Swift's writing, including not only the major literary prose works-Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of the Tub-but also substantial poetic and political writings. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations and a detailed introduction. "Contexts" reprints a generous selection of contemporary materials, including letters, autobiographical documents, and personal writings. "Criticism"is divided into two sections: "1745-1940" prese... MORE
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| A Note on the Texts | p. xxix |
| Early Satires and Political Writings (1704-1711) | p. 1 |
| A Tale of a Tub (1704) | p. 4 |
| The Battel of the Books | p. 95 |
| The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit | p. 113 |
| An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1708, 1711) | p. 135 |
| The Examiner, No. 16. November 23, 1710 | p. 1... MORE |
| A Short Character of his Excellency Thomas Earl of Wharton (1710) | p. 151 |
| Parodies, Hoaxes, and Sottisiers (1703-1745) | p. 157 |
| A Meditation upon a Broom-stick (1703, 1710) | p. 159 |
| Predictions for the Year 1708 (1708) | p. 160 |
| The Accomplishment Of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions (1708) | p. 167 |
| A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. (1709) | p. 169 |
| The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Elliston (1722) | p. 174 |
| From A Compleat Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (1738) | p. 177 |
| Directions to Servants (1745) | p. 195 |
| Writings on Ireland (1707-1737) | p. 233 |
| The Story of the Injured Lady. The Answer to the Injured Lady (1707, 1746) | p. 235 |
| Sermon: Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland (1715, 1762) | p. 242 |
| A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately entered into Holy Orders (1720) | p. 251 |
| A Letter to a Young Lady, On Her Marriage (1723, 1727) | p. 264 |
| The Drapier's Letters I (1724) | p. 271 |
| The Drapier's Letters IV (1724) | p. 278 |
| A Short View of the State of Ireland (1728) | p. 289 |
| A Modest Proposal (1729) | p. 295 |
| A Proposal for Giving Badges to the Beggars (1737) | p. 303 |
| Gulliver's Travels (1726) | p. 311 |
| Poems | p. 503 |
| Verses Wrote on a Lady's Ivory Table-Book (1698, 1711) | p. 505 |
| The humble Petition of Frances Harris (1701, 1711) | p. 506 |
| Baucis and Philemon (1706, 1709) | p. 509 |
| A Description of the Morning (1709) | p. 514 |
| A Description of a City Shower (1710) | p. 515 |
| Cadenus and Vanessa (1713?, 1726) | p. 517 |
| The Author upon Himself (1714, 1735) | p. 537 |
| Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter to Doctor Sheridan (1718, 1732) | p. 540 |
| Stella's Birth-Day (1719, 1728) | p. 542 |
| Phyllis: or, the Progress of Love (1719, 1728) | p. 543 |
| The Progress of Beauty (1719, 1728) | p. 546 |
| The Progress of Poetry (1720, 1728) | p. 549 |
| To Stella, visiting me in my Sickness (1720, 1728) | p. 551 |
| To Stella, who collected and transcribed his Poems (1720?, 1728) | p. 554 |
| Stella's Birth-Day (1721, 1728) | p. 558 |
| To Stella, On her Birth-Day (1722, 1766) | p. 560 |
| A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a late Famous General (1722, 1764) | p. 561 |
| The Progress of Marriage (1722, 1765) | p. 562 |
| Stella's Birth-Day. A great Bottle of Wine, long buried, being that Day dug up (1723, 1728) | p. 566 |
| Stella at Wood-Park (1723, 1735) | p. 569 |
| To Stella (1724, 1765) | p. 572 |
| Prometheus (1724) | p. 574 |
| Stella's Birth-Day (1725, 1728) | p. 577 |
| On Wood the Iron-monger (1725, 1735) | p. 579 |
| A Receipt to Restore Stella's Youth (1725, 1735) | p. 581 |
| Stella's Birth-Day (1727, 1728) | p. 583 |
| Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged (1726?, 1735) | p. 586 |
| Holyhead. Sept. 25. 1727 (1727, 1882) | p. 587 |
| Ireland (1728, 1882) | p. 588 |
| Directions for Making a Birth-Day Song (1729, 1765) | p. 590 |
| A Dialogue between an eminent Lawyer and Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's (1729, 1755) | p. 597 |
| Traulus (1730) | p. 599 |
| The Lady's Dressing-Room (1730, 1732) | p. 603 |
| A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed (1731, 1734) | p. 607 |
| Strephon and Chloe (1731, 1734) | p. 610 |
| Cassinus and Peter (1731, 1734) | p. 618 |
| To Mr. Gay (1731, 1735) | p. 621 |
| Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. (1731-32, 1739) | p. 626 |
| To a Lady (1728?, 1733) | p. 639 |
| On Poetry: A Rapsody (1733) | p. 646 |
| The Yahoo's Overthrow (1734, 1765) | p. 658 |
| The Legion Club (1736) | p. 661 |
| Contexts | p. 667 |
| From the Journal to Stella | p. 669 |
| Letter VI | p. 669 |
| Letter XXXII | p. 674 |
| Swift to Alexander Pope. Sept. 29, 1725. | p. 676 |
| Novr 26, 1725 | p. 677 |
| Swift to Charles Wogan, July-2 Aug., 1732 | p. 679 |
| Swift to William Pulteney, Dublin May 12, 1735 | p. 683 |
| Of Mean and Great Figures (?, 1765) | p. 685 |
| The Family of Swift (?, 1765) | p. 688 |
| On the Death of Mrs. Johnson [Stella] (1728) | p. 694 |
| Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711) | p. 700 |
| Some Thoughts on Free-thinking (?, 1767) | p. 707 |
| Thoughts on Religion (?, 1765) | p. 709 |
| Observations upon The Tale of a Tub | p. 712 |
| Poems on Gulliver's Travels | p. 718 |
| Criticism | p. 725 |
| 1745-1940 | |
| Obituary of Swift | p. 727 |
| On A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels | p. 727 |
| Life of Swift | p. 728 |
| On Gulliver's Travels | p. 739 |
| On Gulliver's Travels and Swift's Last Days | p. 741 |
| On Swift's Celia | p. 742 |
| On Swift, Georgian Ireland, and Stella | p. 743 |
| After 1940 and by Subject | p. 748 |
| The Irony of Swift | p. 748 |
| Swift and Black Humor | p. 758 |
| A Tale of a Tub | |
| The Tale and the Book | p. 759 |
| Text, 'Text,' and Swift's A Tale of a Tub | p. 762 |
| The Battle of the Books | p. 777 |
| The Poems | |
| Feminism and the Augustans | p. 784 |
| On Swift's Poems | p. 795 |
| Politics (England and Ireland) | |
| Swift's Politics | p. 803 |
| Swift and Protestant Ireland | p. 820 |
| Gulliver's Travels | |
| Politics vs. Literature | p. 835 |
| The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the History of Ideas | p. 848 |
| Utopia and 'the Thing which is not' | p. 856 |
| Swift's "I" Narrators | p. 874 |
| Jonathan Swift: A Chronology | p. 891 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 897 |
| Art Credits | p. 903 |
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