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The Life Of Jonathan Swift

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Author : John Forster
language : en
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Release Date : 1875

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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 (1667âe"1745), a writer still widely regarded as the greatest satirist of all time. Soon after Swiftâe(tm)s death, his friends and enemies raced to publish the definitive account of the Dean of St Patrickâe(tm)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 collectionâe(tm)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 writtenâe"or were informed byâe"his enemies. The collectionâe(tm)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 Johnsonâe(tm)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 Orreryâe(tm)s notorious âe~Judas-biographyâe(tm), 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 (1752âe"3), and, finally, the entry on Swift in Cibberâe(tm)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 Orreryâe(tm)s Remarks, and Patrick Delanyâe(tm)s well-known Observations upon Lord Orreryâe(tm)s âe~Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Jonathan Swiftâe(tm) (1754). This volume also contains the biographical essay from John Hawkesworthâe(tm)s Works of Jonathan Swift, DD, Dean of St Patrickâe(tm)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 Swiftâe(tm)s seminal Essay upon the Life, Writings, and Character of Dr Jonathan Swift (1755), which includes Jonathan Swiftâe(tm)s own fragmentary âe~Family of Swiftâe(tm) (c. 1727), and Patrick Delanyâe(tm)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. âe"âe"âe"âe" Âµ âe"âe"âe"âe" 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.

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 : Sir Henry Craik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894

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The Life Of Jonathan Swift

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Author : Henry Craik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969

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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.