Major Works

by Jonathan Swift, Angus Ross (Editor), David Woolley (Editor)

Overview

This authoritative edition brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career—prose, poetry, and letters—to give the essence of his work and thinking. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, which alone would have secured his place in the history of English literature. But in addition to this classic fictional satire, Swift wrote numerous works concerning politics, religion, and Ireland, some savage, others humorous, all suffused with his tremendous wit and inventiveness. This anthology includes satirical works such as A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, political pamphlets, pieces for the popular press, poems, and a generous selection from Swift's correspondence. Presented chronologically, the anthology offers a new and clearer awareness of the unity as well as the complexity of Swift's vision, and the powerful bonds between disparate pieces.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199540785
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/15/2008
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Pages:	768
Sales rank:	632,838
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Angus Ross is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Sussex.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
	Chronology	xxix
	Note on the Text	xxxiii
	A Full and True Account of the Battel Fought last Friday, Between the Antient and the Modern Books in St. James's Library (1697)	1
	When I come to be old (1699)	23
	A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions Between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, With the Consequences they had upon both those States (1701)	24
	To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland the Humble Petition of Frances Harris (1701)	57
	A Meditation upon a Broom-Stick (1701)	60
	A Tale of a Tub (1704)	62
	A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, &c. (1704)	165
	[Apothegms and Maxims]	181
	Baucis and Philemon (1706)	187
	[from the Bickerstaff Papers] (1708)
	Predictions for the Year 1708	193
	An Answer to Bickerstaff	201
	An Elegy on Mr. Partridge, the Almanac-maker	205
	The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions	209
	A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. (1709)	212
	An Argument to prove that the Abolishing of Christianity in England, may as things now stand, be attended with some Inconveniences, and perhaps not produce those many good Effects proposed thereby (1708)	217
	[Answer to Verses from May Fair] (1709)	228
	A Description of the Morning, from The Tatler, No. 9 (1709)	229
	Swift to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley, [from Journal to Stella, VI] 10 October 1710	230
	A Short Character of His Excellency, Thomas Earl of Wharton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1710)	237
	[The continual Corruption of our English Tongue], from The Tatler, No. 230 (28 September 1710)	252
	A Description of a City Shower, from The Tatler, No. 238 (1710)	256
	from The Examiner (1710-11)
	[Marlborough], No. 17 [16], (23 November 1710)	258
	[The Rage of Party], No. 32 [31], (8 March 1711)	263
	[The Criminals in the late Ministry], No. 39 [38], (26 April 1711)	267
	Swift to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley, [from Journal to Stella, xxx] 8 September 1711	272
	The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War (1711)	280
	Dunkirk to be Let, Or, A Town Ready Furnish'd; with A Hue-and-Cry after Dismal (1712)	327
	[Part of] The Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated (1713)	330
	Cadenus and Vanessa (1713)	334
	Swift to Miss Esther Vanhomrigh, 8 July 1713	357
	The Importance of the Guardian Considered (1713)	358
	The Author upon Himself (1714)	376
	Swift to Joseph Addison, 9 July 1717	379
	The Testimony of Conscience [sermon]	380
	Stella's Birthday, 1719	387
	Swift to John Evans, Bishop of Meath, 22 May 1719	388
	Phyllis, or, The Progress of Love (1719)	389
	The Progress of Beauty (1720)	392
	To Stella, who collected and transcribed his Poems (1720)	396
	A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture, in Clothes and Furniture of Houses, &c. (1720)	400
	An Excellent New Song on a Seditious Pamphlet (1720)	406
	The Run upon the Bankers (1720)	408
	Swift to Alexander Pope, 10 January 1721[-2]	411
	A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a late Famous General (1722)	418
	Upon the Horrid Plot discovered by Harlequin, the Bishop of Rochester's French Dog. In a Dialogue between a Whig and a Tory (1722)	419
	Swift to Bishop Stearne, 28 February 1724	421
	[from the Drapier's Letters controversy]
	To the Shop-keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People in General, of the Kingdom of Ireland [Drapier's Letter I] (1724)	422
	Swift to Lord Carteret, 28 April 1724	431
	The same to the same, 9 June 1724	432
	The same to the same, 9 July 1724	433
	A Letter to the Whole People of Ireland [Drapier's Letter IV] (1724)	434
	A Letter to the Lord Chancellor Middleton [the fifth Drapier's letter] (1724)	447
	Horace, Book I, Ode xiv ... paraphrased and inscribed to Ireland (1724)	461
	On Dreams. An Imitation of Petronius (1724)	463
	Swift to Charles Ford, 11 March 1725	465
	Swift to Charles Ford, 16 August 1725	466
	Swift to the Rev. Thomas Sheridan, 11 September 1725	468
	Swift to Alexander Pope, 29 September 1725	470
	Swift to the Earl of Peterborough, 28 April 1726	473
	'Richard Sympson' to Benjamin Motte [from Gulliver's Travels], 8 August 1726	477
	Stella's Birthday, 13 March 1727	479
	Desire and Possession (1727)	482
	On the Death of Mrs. Johnson (1727)	484
	A Modest Proposal for preventing the Children of poor People from being a Burthen to their Parents or the Country, and for making them Beneficial to the Public (1729)	492
	The Grand Question Debated: whether Hamilton's Bawn should be turned into a Barrack or a Malt-House (1729)	500
	Swift to Lord Carteret [April 1730]	506
	Death and Daphne. To an agreeable young Lady, but extremely lean (1730)	508
	An Excellent New Ballad: or, The True English Dean to be hanged for a Rape (1730)	511
	Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D., Occasioned by reading a Maxim in Rochefoucault (1731)	514
	The Place of the Damned (1731)	531
	[The Day of Judgement] (1731)	532
	A Beautiful Young Nymph going to Bed. Written for the Honour of the Fair Sex (1731)	533
	On Poetry. A Rhapsody (1733)	535
	from Directions to Servants
	Rules that concern all Servants in General	549
	A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion Club (1736)	556
	from A Compleat Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the most polite Mode and Method, now used at Court, and in the best Companies of England. In several Dialogues. By Simon Wagstaff, Esq.
	An Introduction to the following Treatise	563
	Dialogue II	583
	Swift's Epitaph	603
	Abbreviations	605
	Notes	605
	Further Reading	695
	Glossary	699
	Biographical Index of Contemporaries	706
	Index of Short Titles	721
	Index of First Lines	723
	Index of Addressees	724