Fair Liberty was all his Cry: A Tercentenary Tribute to Jonathan Swift 1667–1745

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Jonathan Swift: Some Observations....Pages 1-14
Swift’s Personality....Pages 15-41
The Jocose Dean....Pages 42-61
Swift’s View of Poetry....Pages 62-97
Swift as Poet....Pages 98-106
 Swift’s Journal to Stella....Pages 107-115
The Irony of Swift....Pages 116-130
‘Animal Rationis Capax.’ A study of certain aspects of Swift’s imagery....Pages 131-145
Swift as an Ecclesiastical Statesman....Pages 146-165
Politics vs. Literature: an examination of Gulliver’s Travels ....Pages 166-185
The Words upon the Window-Pane....Pages 186-199
 The Origins of Gulliver’s Travels....Pages 200-225
The Scientific Background of Swift’s ‘Voyage to Laputa’....Pages 226-269
 Key to the Language of the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver’s Travels....Pages 270-278
Swift and the Gaelic Tradition....Pages 279-289
Jonathan Swift’s Hoax of 1722 upon Ebenezor Elliston....Pages 290-310
‘Jack and the Dane’: Swift traditions in Ireland....Pages 311-341
A Modest Appraisal: Swift scholarship and criticism, 1945–65....Pages 342-355
A Checklist of Critical and Biographical Writings on Jonathan Swift, 1945–65....Pages 356-391
Back Matter....Pages 392-410