Jonathan Swift: Selected Prose and Poetry (1959) [Omnibus Volume]
by Jonathan Swift
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Summary
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The Rinhart Editions collection of the shorter writings of Jonathan Swift (i.e., excluding Gulliver's Travels). Contents:
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Textual Comment
- Bibliographic Comment
- A Note on Dates
- SELECTED PROSE
- A Tale of a Tub
- The Battle of the Books
- A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
- The Partridge-Bickerstaff Papers
- An Argument against Abolishing Christianity
- A Modest Proposal
- The Drapier's Letters
- A Meditations upon a Broomstick
- SELECTED POEMS
- Introduction
- Verses Wrote in a Lady's Ivory Table-Book
- A Description of the Morning
- A Description of a City Shower
- The Author upon Himself
- Phillis, or the Progress of Love
- A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
- Advice to the Grub-Street Verse Writers
- Dr. Swift to Dr. Pope While He Was Writing the Dunciad
- The Furniture of a Woman's Mind
- On Stephen Duck, the Thresher, and Favorite Poet, A Quibbling Epigram
- The Character of Sir Robert Walpole
- Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
- The Beast's Confession to the Priest on Observing How Most Men Mistake Their Own Talents
- On Poetry: A Rhapsody
- The Day of Judgement
- On Stella's Birthday (1718-19)
- To Stella Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems
- Stella's Birthday (1724-25)
- Stella's Birthday (1726-27)
- Selections from The Journal to Stella
- Selected Letters
- Introduction
- To John Gay
- To John Arbuthnot
- To the Earl of Oxford
- To John Arbuthnot
- To Viscount Bolingbroke
- To Charles Ford
- To Viscount Bolingbroke
- To Alexander Pope
- To Charles Ford
- To Alexander Pope
- To Alexander Pope
Original title: Jonathan Swift: Selected Prose and Poetry
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Poetry
Fiction→ General Fiction→ Humor→ Satire
The following works are contained within this one: Tale of a Tub, a (1704) [Collection] Author: Jonathan Swift
Description of the Morning, a (1709) [Poem] Author: Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels (1726) [Novel] Author: Jonathan Swift
Modest Proposal, a (1729) [Short Story] Author: Jonathan Swift
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