Carry up your Coffee boldly
Thomas Keymer: Jonathan Swift, 17 April 2014
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
by Leo Damrosch.
Yale, 573 pp., £25, November 2013,978 0 300 16499 2 Show More
by Leo Damrosch.
Yale, 573 pp., £25, November 2013,
Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: ‘Polite Conversation’, ‘Directions to Servants’ and Other Works
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Valerie Rumbold.
Cambridge, 821 pp., £85, July 2013,978 0 521 84326 3 Show More
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Valerie Rumbold.
Cambridge, 821 pp., £85, July 2013,
Journal to Stella: Letters to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley, 1710-13
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Abigail Williams.
Cambridge, 800 pp., £85, December 2013,978 0 521 84166 5 Show More
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Abigail Williams.
Cambridge, 800 pp., £85, December 2013,
“... wrote) ‘a driveller and a show’. Journal to Stella, now in focus as never before in Abigail Williams’s magisterial edition, is a title first given decades later to Swift’s letters to Esther Johnson; the title stuck, typecasting the correspondence as an intensely private piece of romantic intrigue. Yet most of the letters were also ... ”
