This week marks the 350th birthday of the brilliant Irish writer, born Nov. 30, 1667. That we know of Swift at all is one of the sweetest fortunes of literary...
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Three hundred and forty seven years ago today, Jonathan Swift was born. A poet and cleric, Swift published many satirical works under...
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Jonathan Swift, (born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire.—died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin), Irish author, the foremost prose satirist in English...
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In its abridged form, Gulliver's Travels has become a children's classic. But in full, it is a misanthropic satire, scathing of politicians.
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Jonathan Swift had “beat us all to the porch” long ago. Here I excerpt some passages from that essay, published in March of 2012, to direct attention back to...
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Gulliver's Travels author and satirist used baby talk for coded intimacy in journal of letters.
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One of Jonathan Swift's first published poems was a piece of 18 lines called 'A Description of the Morning'. It was printed anonymously in...
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How fitting that the man often credited with saying “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its...
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John Stubbs's monumental biography of the Gulliver's Travels author portrays him as the most notorious writer of his day.
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Jonathan Swift used to ridicule the idiotic “modern” idea of understanding writers through their biography. He thought it ridiculous to...
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