Jonathan Swift
In this collection, you can find a wealth of material by or relating to Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745). Listen to the talks by Dr Abigail Williams, read the ebooks and essays to learn more about Swift and his work.
Read the essays:
Jonathan Swift and 'A Tale of a Tub' and Jonathan Swift and 'Gulliver's Travels', distilled from a lecture series on Jonathan Swift given by Dr. Abigail Williams of the University of Oxford and adapted for the Great Writers Inspire project by Kate O'Connor. You may also want to explore the essays about The World of Writing in the 18th Century and High and Low Culture and the resources associated with them.
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| # | Resource Title | Description | Contributor |
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| 11 | The Lady’s Dressing Room (reading) | The Lady’s Dressing Room by Jonathan Swift. Text from Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/… | |
| 12 | Miscellanies in prose and verse | 2d ed., 1713, London : Printed for John Morphew | |
| 13 | A Modest Proposal ... | A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on… | |
| 14 | A Map of Lilliput | Map of Lilliput, for the 1726 edition of Jonathan Swift's Lemuel Gulliver's travels into… | |
| 15 | A collection of articles about Swift, and reviews of books by and about him, taken mainly from 19th century periodicals | (starts on page 297) | |
| 16 | A letter from a member of the House of Commons in Ireland to a member of the House of Commons in England, concerning the sacramental test | Dated on final page "Dublin, December the 4th. 1708.". A member of the House of Commons in Ireland… | |
| 17 | A letter to a young gentleman, lately enter'd into holy orders. By a person of quality. It is certainly known, that the following treatise was writ in Ireland by ... Dr. Swift, | Full title: A letter to a young gentleman, lately enter'd into holy orders. By a person of quality… | |
| 18 | A serious and useful scheme, to make an hospital for incurables, of universal benefit to all His Majesty's subjects. .. | A serious and useful scheme, to make an hospital for incurables, of universal benefit to all His… | |
| 19 | The conduct of the allies, and of the late ministry, in beginning and carrying on the present war | The fifth edition, corrected. London : Printed for John Morphew | |
| 20 | Miscellanies. By J. Swift. To which is prefix'd, A complete key to the Tale of a tub. | Originally published as: A meditation upon a broom-stick, and somewhat beside. |