Swift's Irish Writings: Selected Prose and Poetry

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Note on the Text......Page 10
Chronology......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
Part 1 Prose Works......Page 28
The Story of the Injured Lady (1707)......Page 30
A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons in Ireland, Concerning the Sacramental Test (1708)......Page 38
A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture (1720)......Page 52
The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Elliston (1722)......Page 60
Letter I. To the Shop-keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland......Page 64
Letter II. To Mr. Harding......Page 74
Letter IV. To the Whole People of Ireland......Page 84
Letter V. To Lord Viscount Molesworth......Page 98
Doing Good: A Sermon (1724)......Page 112
A Short View of the State of Ireland (1728)......Page 120
The Intelligencer, Number XIX (1728)......Page 128
An Answer to a Paper, Called A Memorial (1728)......Page 136
Maxims Controlled in Ireland (1729)......Page 144
A Modest Proposal (1729)......Page 150
Sermon, Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland (late 1720s–early 1730s?)......Page 160
A Proposal to Pay off the Debt of the Nation (1732)......Page 170
An Examination of Certain Abuses, Corruptions, and Enormities in the City of Dublin (1732)......Page 176
The Humble Petition of the Footmen of Dublin (1732)......Page 190
Reasons Humbly Offered to the Parliament of Ireland (1733)......Page 194
Advice to the Free-Men of Dublin (1733)......Page 204
A Dialogue in Hybernian Stile Between A. and B.; and Irish Eloquence (mid-1730s?)......Page 210
Part 2 Poems......Page 214
The Humble Petition of Frances Harris (1701)......Page 216
Mary the Cook-Maid’s Letter (1718)......Page 220
The Description of an Irish-Feast (1720)......Page 222
An Excellent New Song on a Seditious Pamphlet (1720)......Page 226
An Epilogue to a Play for the Benefit of the Weavers (1721)......Page 228
The Part of a Summer (1721)......Page 232
Stella at Wood-Park (1723)......Page 238
Prometheus (1724)......Page 242
Whitshed’s Motto on His Coach (1724)......Page 246
On Wood the Iron-monger (1725)......Page 248
To Quilca, a Country House in no very good Repair (1725)......Page 250
Horace, Book I, Ode XIV (“Paraphrased and Inscribed to Ireland”) (1726?)......Page 252
Irel[an]d (1727)......Page 256
My Lady’s Lamentation and Complaint against the Dean (1728)......Page 260
Verses Occasioned by the Sudden Drying up of St. Patrick’s Well (1729?)......Page 266
Drapier’s Hill (1729)......Page 272
A Pastoral Dialogue (1729)......Page 274
On the Irish-Club (1730)......Page 278
An Excellent New Ballad; or the True English Dean to be Hanged for a Rape (1730)......Page 280
On the Irish Bishops (1732)......Page 284
The Yahoo’s Overthrow (1734)......Page 288
On a Printer’s Being Sent to Newgate (1736)......Page 292
A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion Club (1736)......Page 294
Ay and No, A Tale from Dublin (1737)......Page 302
Further Reading......Page 304