The Writings of Jonathan Swift


A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION



Contents


Preface

The Text of Gulliver's Travels

The Texts of A Tale of a Tub and Other Prose
  A Tale of a Tub (1697-1710)
  The Battel of the Books (1697-1710)
  Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, a
    Fragment (1697-1710)
  A Meditation upon a Broom-stick (1703-10)
  A Tritical Essay (1707-11)
  Predictions for the Year 1708
  The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predicitons (1708)
  A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. (1709)
  From Journal to Stella (1710)
  The Tatler, No. CCXXX (1710)
  An Argument against Abolishing Christianity (1708-11)
  A Letter to the Tradesmen, Shop-Keepers, Farmers, and Common-People
    of Ireland (1724)
  A Short View of the State of Ireland (1728)
  A Modest Proposal (1729)

The Texts of the Poems
  Baucis and Philemon (1706-09)
  A Description of the Morning (1709)
  A Description of a City Shower (1710)
  Phillis, or, the Progress of Love (1719)
  The Progress of Beauty (1719-20)
  On Stella's Birthday, 1719
  The Progress of Poetry (1720)
  Stella's Birth-day, 1721
  A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a late Famous General (1722)
  The Furniture of a Woman's Mind (1727)
  Stella's Birthday, 1727
  A Pastoral Dialogue (1729)
  The Lady's Dressing Room (1730)
  A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed (1731)
  Strephon and Chloe (1731)
  Cassinus and Peter (1731)
  Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D. S. P. D. (1731-32)
  The Beasts' Confession to the Priest (1732)
  On Poetry: A Rapsody (1733)
  The Day of Judgement (1732-33)

Backgrounds
  Correspondence
    Swift to Charles Ford (Jan. 19, 1724; Aug. 14, 1725)
    Swift to the Rev. Thomas Sheridan (Sept. 11, 1725)
    Swift to Alexander Pope (Sept. 29, 1725)
    Swift to Alexander Pope (Nov. 26, 1725)
    John Arbuthnot to Swift (Nov. 5, 1726)
    Alexander Pope to Swift (Nov. 16, 1726)
    John Gay to Swift (Nov. 17, 1726)
    Swift to Mrs. Howard (Nov. 27, 1726)
    Swift to Alexander Pope (Nov. 27, 1726)
    Swift to L'AbbÈ des Fontaines (July, 1727)
  William Wotton · Observations upon the Tale of a Tub
  Edmund Curll · Some Annotations and Explanatory Notes upon the
    Tale of a Tub
  Thomas Sheridan · [The Composition of "A Meditation upon a
    Broomstick"]
  Alexander Pope · [Swift's Odd Blunt Way]
  Alexander Pope · Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver
  Laetitia Pilkington · [Swift's Conduct as a Host]

Criticism
  Norman O. Brown · The Excremental Vision
  Samual Holt Monk · The Pride of Lemuel Gulliver
  Allan Bloom · An Outline of Gulliver's Travels
  Nigel Dennis · Swift and Defoe
  Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr. · The Satiric Fiction
  A.E. Dyson · Swift: The Metamorphosis of Irony
  William Frost · The Irony of Swift and Gibbon
  C.J. Rawson · Gulliver and the Gentle Reader
  Kathleen Williams · Giddy Circumstance
  Martin Price · Swift's Rhetorical Art
  Robert M. Adams · Satiric Incongruity and the Inner Defeat
    of the Mind
  Jay Arnold Levine · The Design of A Tale of a Tub

Bibliography



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