The Complete Works Of Jonathan Swift

This collection of Jonathan Swift’s poetry is separated in three parts, according to their subject matter. The first section are poems addressed to a woman named Stella. Based off a real-life close friend of Swift’s, Esther Johnson, the portion of poetry addressed to Stella contain beautiful tributes to this woman, with simple titles such as Stella’s Birthday March 13, 1727. Though these poems display a tender amount of intimacy shared between the two, Esther Johnson and Jonathan’s relationship is shrouded in mystery, leaving readers and historians to debate if they were just friends or something more romantic. The next section of The Poems of Jonathan Swift are dedicated to a woman called Vanessa, who was based off of one of Swift’s lovers, Esther Vanhomrigh. Their correspondence and his poems about her suggested a more romantic relationship than the one he shared with Stella. With elegant word choice and masterful form, both women and their relationships with Swift are well documented in this book of poems. The final part of The Poems of Jonathan Swift is dedicated to the love of Swift’s career—the satirization of politics. All of Swift’s poems are written in iambic tetrameter and end rhyme, creating a fun and quick reading experience. This is a large collection of poetry covers a wide variety of topics with the humor and satire that Jonathan Swift was famous for. With these attributes, readers are welcome to enjoy Jonathan Swift’s mysterious and passionate relationships as well as his humorous and intelligent criticism of politics. Now presented in an easy-to-read font and with an eye-catching cover design, this edition of The Poems of Jonathan Swift is perfect for a contemporary audience. With the decadent style of classic poetry combined with topics that are both entertaining and relatable, along with this edition’s new features, this classic collection is restored for modern readers.

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.

A rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver’s Travels, by a “vivid, ardent, and engaging” (New York Times Book Review) author. One of Europe’s most important literary figures, Jonathan Swift was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, and a conscientious Anglican minister—as well as a hoaxer and a teller of tales. His anger against abuses of power would produce the most famous satires of the English language: Gulliver’s Travels as well as the Drapier Papers and the unparalleled Modest Proposal, in which he imagined the poor of Ireland farming their infants for the tables of wealthy colonists. John Stubbs’s biography captures the dirt and beauty of a world that Swift both scorned and sought to amend. It follows Swift through his many battles, for and against authority, and in his many contradictions, as a priest who sought to uphold the dogma of his church; as a man who was quite prepared to defy convention, not least in his unshakable attachment to an unmarried woman, his “Stella”; and as a writer whose vision showed that no single creed holds all the answers. Impeccably researched and beautifully told, in Jonathan Swift Stubbs has found the perfect subject for this masterfully told biography of a reluctant rebel—a voice of withering disenchantment unrivaled in English.

An account of Swift's dealings with books and texts, showing how the business of print was transformed during his lifetime.

Jonathan Swift, the essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric, is widely regarded as the foremost prose satirist of the English language, whose satirical novel ‘Gulliver's Travels’ remains one of the most enduring classics of English literature. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Jonathan Swift, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Swift's life and works * Concise introductions to the satires and other works * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * GULLIVER’S TRAVELS is illustrated with contemporary illustrations * Provides both the adapted 1726 and the authoritative 1735 versions of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS * Rare satires appearing for the first time in digital print * An exhaustive offering of political, religious and journalism works * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Swift's letters to ‘Stella’ - spend hours exploring the author’s personal correspondence * Features two biographies - discover Swift's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse our other titles Please note: some obscure poems cannot appear in this eBook, being the result of more recent scholarship and so protected by copyright. Once these works enter the public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Satires A TALE OF A TUB THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS THE BICKERSTAFF-PARTRIDGE PAPERS THE SWEARER’S BANK GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, 1726 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, 1735 A MODEST PROPOSAL AN EXAMINATION OF CERTAIN ABUSES A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF GENTEEL AND INGENIOUS CONVERSATION DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS MINOR SATIRES The Sermons THREE SERMONS BROTHERLY LOVE AND OTHER SERMONS Other Religious Works LIST OF RELIGIOUS WORKS The Political Works DRAPIER’S LETTERS LIST OF POLITICAL WORKS The Historical Works THE HISTORY OF THE FOUR LAST YEARS OF THE QUEEN AN ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND REMARKS ON THE CHARACTERS OF THE COURT OF QUEEN ANNE REMARKS ON LORD CLARENDON’S “HISTORY OF THE REBELLION” REMARKS ON BISHOP BURNET’S “HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME” NOTES ON THE “FREEHOLDER” The Journalism CONTRIBUTIONS TO ‘THE TATLER’ CONTRIBUTIONS TO ‘THE EXAMINER’ CONTRIBUTION TO ‘THE SPECTATOR’ CONTRIBUTIONS TO ‘THE INTELLIGENCER’ The Poetry Collection THE POEMS OF JONATHAN SWIFT The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Memoir A JOURNAL TO STELLA The Biographies SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF DR. JONATHAN SWIFT by R. Phillips DEAN SWIFT by James McGee