The writing was classic Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal.” Imagine anyone opposed to funding a voluntary fire company who risk their lives to save lives and...
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this timely book—whose author was born November 30, 1667—is a subtle, richly diversified, ostensibly comic study of human depravity and its various alternatives...
3 months ago

This article talks about unusual laws in an empire where informers of false accusations are put to death if the accused are proven innocent.
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Jonathan Swift had “beat us all to the porch” long ago. Here I excerpt some passages from that essay, published in March of 2012, to direct attention back to...
16 months ago

Those of us who admire Jonathan Swift, the contrary old weed, were the original Swifties.
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In his new biography “Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel,” John Stubbs explores the complex life of the man who penned “Gulliver's Travels.
93 months ago

Jonathan Swift, the Irish writer behind "Gulliver's Travels," was born in Dublin on November 30, 1667. Here is a look at his life.
24 months ago

Swift believed that humans have an innate capacity for reason, which they fail to use. But did he take the human comedy too seriously?
96 months ago

The Harvard professor Leo Damrosch's commanding new biography, “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World,” does ample justice to a figure for whom religion and...
132 months ago

The work is not merely a biography; it is also an account that details the turbulence of the times in which Jonathan Swift lived.
58 months ago