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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.

# Title Description Contributor
1 Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing

Dr Abigail Williams gives a talk on Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing

Abigail Williams
2 Swirls and secrets: the mysteries of Jonathan Swift's love letters

In Swift's letters to his adored Stella, we see an elaborate combination of language and...

Abigail Williams
# Title Description Contributor
1 The Lady’s Dressing Room (reading)

The Lady’s Dressing Room by Jonathan Swift.
Text from Project Gutenberg...

2 Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing

Dr Abigail Williams gives a talk on Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing

Abigail Williams
3 Swirls and secrets: the mysteries of Jonathan Swift's love letters

In Swift's letters to his adored Stella, we see an elaborate combination of language and...

Abigail Williams
# Essay Title Description Contributor
1 Jonathan Swift and 'Gulliver's Travels'

This essay is the second of two distilled from a lecture series on Jonathan Swift given by...

Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
2 Jonathan Swift and 'A Tale of a Tub'

This essay is the first of two distilled from a lecture series on Jonathan Swift given by Dr...

Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
# Title Description Author
1 The Intelligencer

ebook version of The Intelligencer

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
2 Tale of a Tub

ebook version of Tale of a Tub

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
3 Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels

Essay

George Orwell
4 The Journal to Stella

With preface, introduction and notes by George A. Aitken.

Jonathan Swift
5 Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World Jonathan Swift
6 Miscellanies in prose and verse

2d ed., 1713, London : Printed for John Morphew

Jonathan Swift
7 A Modest Proposal ...

A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on...

Jonathan Swift
8 A collection of articles about Swift, and reviews of books by and about him, taken mainly from 19th century periodicals

(starts on page 297)

9 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...

Jonathan Swift
10 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...

Jonathan Swift
11 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...

Jonathan Swift
12 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

Jonathan Swift
13 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.

Jonathan Swift
14 The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces Jonathan Swift
15 Hearing Eighteenth-Century Occasional Poetry by and about Women: Swift and Barbauld

An article by Elizabeth Kraft (The University of Georgia) in...

Elizabeth Kraft
# Resource Title Description Contributor
1 Front Cover for Issue 16 of Gulliver's Travels

Cover scan of Classic Comics no. 16: Gulliver's Travels (December 1943; Lilian Chesney cover and...

2 Jonathan Swift
3 Tale of a Tub - title page

Title page of the en:1704 en:Tale of a Tub The page was set and produced by en:John Nutt, en:...

4 A Map of Lilliput

Map of Lilliput, for the 1726 edition of Jonathan Swift's Lemuel Gulliver's travels into...