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The Life Of Jonathan Swift
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Author : John Forster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
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The Life Of Jonathan Swift
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Author : Thomas Lockwood
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2023-10-02
The Life Of Jonathan Swift written by Thomas Lockwood and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Presents a fresh account of the life history and creative imagination of Jonathan Swift Classic satires such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub express radical positions, yet were written by the most conservative of men. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin and spent most of his life in Ireland, never traveling outside the British Isles. An Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, he was a major political and religious figure whose career was primarily clerical, not literary. Although much is known about Swift, in many ways he remains an enigma. He was admired as an Irish patriot yet was contemptuous of the Irish. He was both secretive and self-dramatizing. His talent for friendship was matched by his skill for making enemies. He hated the English but yearned to live in England. The Life of Jonathan Swift explores the writing life and personal history of the foremost satirist in the English language. Accessible and engaging, this critical biography brings Swift’s writing and creative sensibility into the narrative of his life. Author Thomas Lockwood provides the historical and modern critical context of Swift’s prose satires and poetry, as well as his political journalism, essays, manuscripts, and personal correspondence. Throughout the book, biographically contextualized descriptions of Swift’s most famous works help readers better understand both the writing and the writer. Provides critical profiles of Gulliver’s Travels, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, Drapier’s Letters, and Swift’s other famous works Offers insights into Swift’s relationships with Esther Johnson, “Stella,” and Esther Vanhomrigh, “Vanessa” Highlights Swift’s poetry and how verse writing was a vital part of his creative being Summarizes and contextualizes lesser-known works such as The Conduct of the Allies Addresses the historic critical bias against comedy or satire as inferior forms of art, both in Swift’s lifetime and the present The Life of Jonathan Swift is an essential resource for general readers of literature and literary biography, university instructors and researchers, and undergraduate students taking courses in English literature.
Jonathan Swift
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Author : Leo Damrosch
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Jonathan Swift written by Leo Damrosch and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for his fierce protest against English exploitation of his native Ireland. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions? In this deeply researched biography, Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift’s life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift’s parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift’s public version of his life—the one accepted until recently—was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed aspects of himself and his relationships, and other people in his life helped to keep his secrets. Assembling suggestive clues, Damrosch re-narrates the events of Swift’s life while making vivid the sights, sounds, and smells of his English and Irish surroundings.Through his own words and those of a wide circle of friends, a complex Swift emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic figure, a man of biting wit and powerful mind, and a major figure in the history of world letters.
The Life Of Jonathan Swift
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Author : Henry Craik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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The Life Of Jonathan Swift
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Author : John Forster
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
The Life Of Jonathan Swift written by John Forster and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
Discover the fascinating life of one of the greatest satirists in history. From his early days as an impoverished writer to his later years as a beloved dean, Jonathan Swift's story is one of triumph over adversity. In this engaging biography, you'll learn about Swift's relationships, political views, and literary legacy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Jonathan Swift
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Author : Joseph McMinn
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-27
Jonathan Swift written by Joseph McMinn and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This biography emphasises the extraordinary versatility and resourcefulness of a lifetime spent serving the public interest with the pen. At the same time, it shows Swift's distinctive love of writing for personal entertainment and diversion, with little or no interest in publication. While remaining a fiercely committed writer, he always tried to preserve, especially in his poetry and letters, a literature dedicated to friendship. Swift's literary career comprises much more than the well-known satires.
The Man Himself
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Author : John Martin
language : en
Publisher: Anglia Pub
Release Date : 2009
The Man Himself written by John Martin and has been published by Anglia Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this revisionist biography of Dr Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver's Travels, John Martin sets out to solve the many unresolved issues in the life of Dr Jonathan Swift. Who were his parents? How was he brought up? What was the truth of his relationships with Stella and Vanessa, women who suffered at his hands and whom Swift obstinately refused to marry after long relationships? John Martin reveals that contrary to current opinion, and the notion that Swift was asexual, Swift had long-term relationships with many women and had children by some, including Stella and Vanessa. Swift's ambition was to become an English Bishop. He failed because in 'the knowing part of society' in London and Dublin he was regarded as a debauched priest. His clerical ambitions had to be satisfied by becoming the Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, far removed from the glittering society of London and his friends among the wits of the age: Pope, Addison, Arbuthnot, Gay and Prior. His consolation was that over a relatively short period of time he became the leading satirist of his age, a reputation cemented down the ages by his authorship of Gulliver's Travels. Swift mixed with most powerful politicians of his time. They were eager to have him on their side and to use his formidable political and religious journalism in the support of their causes. A satirist makes many enemies and Swift was never short of them; but he made long-lasting friendships with friends and opponents alike who found in him the joy of conversation and the laughter of repartee. In the opinion of the publisher, John Martin gives a unique insight into the character and behaviour of Swift. The publisher writes: 'not since Norman O'Brown's Life Against Death has such insight been granted into the mind, art and being of Jonathan Swift.'
The Lives Of Jonathan Swift
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Author : Daniel Cook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
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Contemporaries were mesmerized by the outrageous wit of Jonathan Swift (1667 1745), a writer still widely regarded as the greatest satirist of all time. Soon after Swift 's death, his friends and enemies raced to publish the definitive account of the Dean of St Patrick s. Now, Routledge brings these major works together for the first time in a new, three-volume, facsimile collection, supplemented with a full introduction, bibliographies, and other textual apparatus. The collection 's editor avers that these highly influential biographies of one of the leading literary figures of his generation remain incompletely understood. The persistence of a number of myths can be traced back to these studies of Swift, including his own pseudo-biographical fragment on his early life. It is crucial that many of these biographies were written or commissioned by friends and allies of Swift and that some were written or were informed by his enemies. The collection 's editor makes clear that the lives of Swift have a strongly interdependent relationship and, by bringing these studies together in one easy-to-use reference resource, scholars will more readily be able to trace the perambulations of specific anecdotes and biographical readings, and better understand how Johnson 's defining picture of Swift emerged. Volume I of the collection opens with an extended introductory account of the history of biographies and biographical criticism of Swift in the eighteenth century and beyond. The volume reproduces Lord Orrery 's notorious Judas-biography, the Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Jonathan Swift (1752), and a little-known book-length response, A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country, to his Son in the College of Dublin (1752 3), and, finally, the entry on Swift in Cibber 's multivolume collection The Lives of the Poets (1753). The second volume includes the largely overlooked Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift, DD (1752), a freely adapted plagiarism of Orrery 's Remarks, and Patrick Delany 's well-known Observations upon Lord Orrery 's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Jonathan Swift (1754). This volume also contains the biographical essay from John Hawkesworth 's Works of Jonathan Swift, DD, Dean of St Patrick s, Dublin (1755), and the undervalued Life of Jonathan Swift by the lesser-known biographer W. H. Dilworth. (Although it is largely unexamined by modern scholars, his influence on contemporary Swift studies merits renewed attention.) The final volume in the collection, meanwhile, comprises Deane Swift 's seminal Essay upon the Life, Writings, and Character of Dr Jonathan Swift (1755), which includes Jonathan Swift 's own fragmentary Family of Swift (c. 1727), and Patrick Delany 's cantankerous response, A Letter to Dean Swift, Esq (1755). The collection ends with full textual apparatus, including contemporary reviews of, and responses to, the competing lives of Jonathan Swift. The Lives of Jonathan Swift provides a full and fascinating picture of eighteenth-century attitudes to one of the great figures of the age. It will be welcomed by Swift scholars and students, as well as those more broadly interested in the art and function of literary biography. Routledge facsimile collections make key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of literary studies, as well as those working in allied and related fields. Selected and introduced by expert editors, the gathered materials are reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination.
The Life Of Jonathan Swift
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Author : Sir Henry Craik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
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The Life Of Jonathan Swift Dean Of St Patrick S Dublin
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Author : Sir Henry Craik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
The Life Of Jonathan Swift Dean Of St Patrick S Dublin written by Sir Henry Craik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.