A study of the brilliant satirist and polemicist Jonathan Swift, by one of the foremost scholars of our time.

Jonathan Swift's influence on the writings and politics of England and Ireland was reinforced by a combination of contradictory forces: an authoritarian attachm

Poets are makers, etymologically speaking. In practice, they are also thieves. Over a long career, from the early 1690s to the late 1730s, Jonathan Swift thrive

Jonathan Swift remains the most important and influential satirist in the English language. The author of Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a

The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and mor