Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life

✍ Scribed by Joseph McMinn (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 182
• Series: Macmillan Literary Lives
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Secretary and Apprentice....Pages 1-20
‘Pox on the Dissenters and Independents!’....Pages 21-37
A Pact with Power....Pages 38-79
A Deceptive Retirement....Pages 80-105
Literary Triumph in Ireland and England....Pages 106-129
‘I have stretched out my Hand, and no Man regarded’....Pages 130-145
A Poetic Valediction....Pages 146-155
Back Matter....Pages 156-172

✦ Subjects

Early Modern/Renaissance Literature;Literature, general