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The Blistering Satire Of Jonathan Swift

WBUR
Jonathan Swift wrote “Gulliver's Travels” and blistering satire on human nature. He's relevant again. We'll bring back Jonathan Swift.
128 months ago

Jonathan Swift summary

Britannica
Jonathan Swift, (born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire.—died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin), Irish author, the foremost prose satirist in English...
37 months ago

Why Jonathan Swift wanted to ‘vex the world’ with Gulliver’s Travels

The Conversation
In its abridged form, Gulliver's Travels has become a children's classic. But in full, it is a misanthropic satire, scathing of politicians.
78 months ago

Jonathan Swift turns 350 this week. Would the great satirist be disgusted with DC?

The Washington Post
This week marks the 350th birthday of the brilliant Irish writer, born Nov. 30, 1667. That we know of Swift at all is one of the sweetest fortunes of literary...
84 months ago

That Wasn’t Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born (Published 2017)

The New York Times
How fitting that the man often credited with saying “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its...
91 months ago

Three-year-old helps translate Jonathan Swift's letters to his poo poo ppt

The Guardian
Gulliver's Travels author and satirist used baby talk for coded intimacy in journal of letters.
166 months ago

Clare Bucknell · Oven-Ready Children: Jonathan Swift

London Review of Books
One of Jonathan Swift's first published poems was a piece of 18 lines called 'A Description of the Morning'. It was printed anonymously in...
94 months ago

My Bravest Friends Are Rawdogging Ulysses. It’s Tearing My Book Club Apart.

Slate
Don Gifford's Ulysses Annotated is 694 pages long and retails for $35 on Amazon. The paperback edition is a doorstop, bulging with more ink...
6 days ago

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel review – a ‘daring cultural bandit’

The Guardian
John Stubbs's monumental biography of the Gulliver's Travels author portrays him as the most notorious writer of his day.
81 months ago

The 100 best novels, No 3 – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)

The Guardian
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels comes third in our list of the best novels written in English. Robert McCrum discusses a satirical masterpiece that's never...
133 months ago