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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.
167 months ago

The Travels of Jonathan Swift

The Imaginative Conservative
The work is not merely a biography; it is also an account that details the turbulence of the times in which Jonathan Swift lived.
60 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.
80 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...
92 months ago

Is Irish literature too ‘woke?’

Chicago Sun-Times
Banning books and AP classes are what happens when semiliterate ideologues try to defend us white folks from history itself and the...
16 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...
135 months ago

Jonathan Swift, Irish writer

OUPblog
By Claude Rawson Jonathan Swift, whom T. S. Eliot called “colossal,” “the greatest writer of English prose, and the greatest man who has...
134 months ago

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch – review

The Guardian
A new biography of the great ironist is convincing about his private life – was he sexually twisted? By John Mullan.
132 months ago

Jonathan Swift by John Stubbs — Gulliver’s troubles

Financial Times
Jonathan Swift used to ridicule the idiotic “modern” idea of understanding writers through their biography. He thought it ridiculous to...
98 months ago

On This Day: Irish satirist Jonathan Swift born in Dublin in 1667

IrishCentral
Jonathan Swift, the Irish writer behind "Gulliver's Travels," was born in Dublin on November 30, 1667. Here is a look at his life.
25 months ago