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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Portrait of Lemuel Gulliver

source: http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/

online resources

biography

  • Ehrenpreis, Irvin. 1967. Swift, The Man, His Works and The Age, London: Methuen & Co Ltd., Vol I-II.

  • Glendinning, Victoria. 1998. Jonathan Swift, London: Hutchinson.

correspondence

  • Woolley, David (ed.). 1999-  . The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Frankfurth am Main [etc.]: Lang.

  • Wiliams, Harold (ed.). 1963-1965. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Vol. I-IV. [1972; vols IV and V corr. by David Woolley]

language

Bijkerk, Annemieke, 2001. “Of manners and letters: Politeness in the letters between Jonathan Swift and his female correspondents”. MA thesis English Department, University of Leiden. Summary.

Milic, Louis T. “Swift and syntactical connection”. In: George Watson (ed.), Literary English since Shakespeare. London etc.: Oxford University Press. 266-280.

Strang, Barbara. 1967. “Swift and the English language: A study in principles and practice”. In: To Honor Roman Jakobson, Vol. III. The Hague. 19-59.

of additional interest

Doody, Margaret Ann. 1988. “Swift among the Women”, Yearbook of English Studies 1988: 62-92.

 

(for additions, contact Annemieke Bijkerk)