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First published in 1962, Mr Swift and his Contemporaries, is the
first of three volumes providing a detailed exploration of the
events of Swift's life. This volume is a thorough insight into the
historical and social setting of Swift's life, the evolution of his
character, and the composition and interpretation of his works. It
includes a wealth of material concerning Swift's family and career,
his emotional and sexual life, his relationship with Sir William
Temple, and the design and meaning of both A Tale of a Tub and The
Battle of the Books. Mr Swift and his Contemporaries is ideal for
anyone with an interest in Swift's life, work, and the period in
which he lived.
First published in 1983, Dean Swift is the concluding book in a
series of three volumes providing a detailed exploration of the
events of Swift's life. The third volume follows Swift's life and
career from 1714 to 1745 and sets it against the public events of
the age, paying close attention to political and economic change,
ecclesiastical problems, social issues, and literary history. It
traces Swift's rise to becoming first citizen of Ireland and looks
in detail at the composition, publication, and reception of
Gulliver's Travels, as well as many of Swift's other works, both
poetry and prose. It also explores Swift's later years, his love
affairs with Esther Johnson and Esther Vanhomrigh, his complicated
friendships with Pope, Lord Bolingbroke, and Archbishop King, and
his declining health. Dean Swift is a hugely detailed insight into
Swift's life from 1714 until his death and will be of interest to
anyone wanting to find out more about his life and works.
First published in 1967, Dr Swift is the second of three volumes
providing a detailed exploration of the events of Swift's life.
This volume begins by assessing Swift's character, hopes and
ambitions in 1699. It then traces his life and career up to 1714 in
minute detail, giving close consideration to Swift's expectations
and the extent to which he felt they were fulfilled. In doing so,
it covers Swift's movement between Ireland and England, his
reputation as a poet, his historical writing, his church
preferments, involvement in politics, and much more, including his
relationships with a number of prominent social figures of the
time. Dr Swift is ideal for those with an interest in Swift's life,
and in particular his life and career between 1699 and 1714.
First published in 1967, Dr Swift is the second of three volumes
providing a detailed exploration of the events of Swift's life.
This volume begins by assessing Swift's character, hopes and
ambitions in 1699. It then traces his life and career up to 1714 in
minute detail, giving close consideration to Swift's expectations
and the extent to which he felt they were fulfilled. In doing so,
it covers Swift's movement between Ireland and England, his
reputation as a poet, his historical writing, his church
preferments, involvement in politics, and much more, including his
relationships with a number of prominent social figures of the
time. Dr Swift is ideal for those with an interest in Swift's life,
and in particular his life and career between 1699 and 1714.
First published in 1983, Dean Swift is the concluding book in a
series of three volumes providing a detailed exploration of the
events of Swift's life. The third volume follows Swift's life and
career from 1714 to 1745 and sets it against the public events of
the age, paying close attention to political and economic change,
ecclesiastical problems, social issues, and literary history. It
traces Swift's rise to becoming first citizen of Ireland and looks
in detail at the composition, publication, and reception of
Gulliver's Travels, as well as many of Swift's other works, both
poetry and prose. It also explores Swift's later years, his love
affairs with Esther Johnson and Esther Vanhomrigh, his complicated
friendships with Pope, Lord Bolingbroke, and Archbishop King, and
his declining health. Dean Swift is a hugely detailed insight into
Swift's life from 1714 until his death and will be of interest to
anyone wanting to find out more about his life and works.
First published in 1962, Mr Swift and his Contemporaries, is the
first of three volumes providing a detailed exploration of the
events of Swift's life. This volume is a thorough insight into the
historical and social setting of Swift's life, the evolution of his
character, and the composition and interpretation of his works. It
includes a wealth of material concerning Swift's family and career,
his emotional and sexual life, his relationship with Sir William
Temple, and the design and meaning of both A Tale of a Tub and The
Battle of the Books. Mr Swift and his Contemporaries is ideal for
anyone with an interest in Swift's life, work, and the period in
which he lived.
First published between 1962 and 1983, this three volume set is an
extensive and detailed biography of Swift's life, based on a wealth
of primary sources. In each volume, Swift's life is set against the
public events of the age to provide a thorough insight into the
social, economic, political, and religious context in which he
lived. Close readings are also made of many of his works, including
A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of Books, and Gulliver's Travels.
Acts of Implication argues that the best approach to the aesthetic
value of much literature of the past is by way of the deliberate
meaning-implicit or explicit-that the author invites the reader to
share. Irvin Ehrenpreis shows that subtlety and indirection do not
militate against the didacticism and lucid style we usually
associate with writers in the Augustan tradition. In a group of
simulating essays he examines how an eighteenth-century dramatist,
an essayist, a poet, and a novelist imply meaning about politics,
religion, and sexual passion, focusing on their concept of heroism
to elaborate these themes. This title is part of UC Press's Voices
Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1980.
With the growth of efficient postal service in England and the
stimulus of a growing tradition of informal prose among
eighteenth-century men of leisure, the intimate letter reached
unprecedented literary heights as the exemplary form of the period.
Considered here are the striking and diverse qualities both of the
art and the personalities of the great letter-writers: Swift, Pope,
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Richardson, the Earl of Chesterfield,
Johnson, Sterne, Gray, Walpole, Burke, Cowper, Gibbon, and Boswell.
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