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Title: Writings of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift, William Piper, Robert A. Greenberg ISBN: 0-393-09415-4 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1973 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.60 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Just One "But"
Comment: Except for the end of the book, which is clotted up with the Norton Critical Editions usual stinky baggage of festering academic critiques--except for this, the book's a fine one.
There are unquestionably people who won't appreciate Swift's style (check out the customer comments for Gulliver's Travels); but there will also be people who don't appreciate good food, good drink and healthy exercise--all you can do is leave them to their folly and continue apace.
No English language writer has ever matched Swift's chainsaw tongue. His misanthropic rage, vented in Gulliver's Travels, hacks away at the tender, maggoty, easily severed parts of pretense and hypocritical morality.
Nor does Swift anywhere ask for quarter, as he gives none. Those who don't like his reading are free to continue in their superficiality or their ignorance, and his definition of satire--a looking glass in which people see every face but their own--remains the definitive statement of the art.
Swift's lessons on writing are also direct and easy to grasp: write simply. His acid wit eats through everything it touches: academia, politics, literature, modernism...it's a bitter pill, especially if you are one of the few who sees your own face in the mirror.
The collection of Swift's poems are needless; his poetic skills were forgettable. The inclusion of Tale of a Tub, and the Battel of the Books, as well as his major essays, definitely makes this edition worth buying.
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Title: Poems of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope, John Butt ISBN: 0300000308 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1963 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Donald Greene, Samuel Johnson ISBN: 0192840428 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope, Aubrey Williams ISBN: 0395051568 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $17.56 |
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Title: A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works by Jonathan Swift ISBN: 0486287599 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 02 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Eighteenth-Century English Literature by Geoffrey Tillotson, Marshall Waingrow, Paul Fussell ISBN: 0155209574 Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Pub. Date: June, 1969 List Price(USD): $91.95 |
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