Author: Ricardo QuintanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift
Author: Ricardo QuintanaThe Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift
Author: The works of Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan Swift and the Arts
Author: Joseph McMinnPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 0874130689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Swift is a shrewd and humorous observer of the changing artistic and cultural scene in both Ireland and England, and his views on these changes in public taste are an important, albeit neglected, part of his biography. His correspondence, especially his Journal to Stella, shows us someone very aware of the various arts and of their lively emergence from the enclosed world of the Puritan era. Many of Swift's friends and acquaintances were serious collectors of paintings, sculpture, coins, medals and Swift himself eventually enjoyed an interesting and revealing collection of artistic artifacts, as this study shows.
The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Select Works of Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Select Works of Jonathan Swift ...
Author: Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift
Author: Leo DamroschPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300165676
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for his fierce protest against English exploitation of his native Ireland. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions? In this deeply researched biography, Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift’s life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift’s parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift’s public version of his life—the one accepted until recently—was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed aspects of himself and his relationships, and other people in his life helped to keep his secrets. Assembling suggestive clues, Damrosch re-narrates the events of Swift’s life while making vivid the sights, sounds, and smells of his English and Irish surroundings.Through his own words and those of a wide circle of friends, a complex Swift emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic figure, a man of biting wit and powerful mind, and a major figure in the history of world letters.