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A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION ™ AM B PIPER HORITATIVE TEXTS BACKGROUNDS CRITICISM Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 http://archive.org/details/writingsofjonathOOswif THE WRITINGS OF JONATHAN SWIFT AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS BACKGROUNDS CRITICISM NORTON CRITICAL EDITIONS austen Emma editedbyStephenM.Parrish austen PrideandPrejudice editedbyDonald Gray J. bronte,charlotte JaneEyre editedbyRichard Dunn J. bronte,emily WurheringHeights,Revised editedbyWilliamM.Sale,Jr. carroll,lewis AliceinWonderland editedbyDonaldJ.Gray Clemens AdventuresofHuckleberryFinn editedbySculleyBradley, RichmondCroomBeatty,andE.HudsonLong conrad HeartofDarkness,Revised editedbyRobertKimbrough conrad LordJim editedbyThomasMoser crane TheRedBadgeofCourage editedbySculleyBradley,Richmond CroomBeatty,andE.HudsonLong Darwin editedbyPhilipAppleman dickens Hard Times edited by George Ford and Sylvere Monod JohnDonne'sPoetry selectedandeditedbyA.L.Clements dostoevsky CrimeandPunishment(theCoulsontranslation) editedby GeorgeGibian dreiser SisterCarrie editedbyDonaldPizer flaubert MadameBovary editedwithasubstantiallynewtranslationby PauldeMan hardy TheReturnoftheNative editedbyJamesGindin hardy TessoftheD'Urbervilles editedbyScottElledge hawthorne TheHouseoftheSevenGables editedbySeymourL.Gross hawthorne TheScarletLetter editedbySculleyBradley,Richmond CroomBeatty,andE.HudsonLong ibsen TheWildDuck translatedandeditedbyDouniaB.Christiani james TheAmbassadors editedbyS.P.Rosenbaum james TheTurnoftheScrew editedbyRobertKimbrough melville TheConfidence-Man editedbyHershelParker melville Moby-Dick editedbyHarrisonHayfordandHershelParker newman ApologiaProVitaSua editedbyDavidJ.DeLaura TheWritingsofSt.Paul editedbyWayneA.Meeks Shakespeare Hamlet editedbyCyrusHoy Shakespeare HenryIV,PartJ,Revised editedbyJamesL.Sanderson BernardShaw'sPlays editedbyWarrenSylvesterSmith sophocles OedipusTyrannus translatedandeditedbyLuciBerkowitzand TheodoreF.Brunner EdmundSpenser'sPoetry selectedandeditedbyHughMaclean stendhal RedandBlack translatedandeditedbyRobertM.Adams swift Gulliver'sTravels,Revised editedbyRobertA.Greenberg Tennyson'sPoetry selectedandeditedbyRobertW.Hill,Jr. thoreau WaldenandCivilDisobedience editedbyOwenThomas tolstoy AnnaKarenina (theMaudetranslation) editedbyGeorgeGibian tolstoy WarandPeace(theMaudetranslation) editedbyGeorgeGibian turgenev FathersandSons editedwithasubstantiallvnewtranslationby RalphE.Matlaw voltaire Candide translatedandeditedbyRobertM.Adams whitman LeavesofGrass editedbySculleyBradleyandHaroldBlodgett ANortonCriticalEditionofModernDrama editedbyAnthonyCaputi NORTON CRITICAL EDITION -^ A -^ THE WRITINGS OF JONATHAN SWIFT AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS BACKGROUNDS CRITICISM •>» <«• Edited hy ROBERT GREENBERG A. QUEENS COLLEGE WILLIAM BOWMAN PIPER RICE UNIVERSITY 4& -&h WW- NORTON & COMPANY INC NewYork W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. also publishes THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE edited by M. H. Abrams etal. THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY edited by Arthur M. Eastman et al. WORLD MASTERPIECES editedby Maynard Macketal. THE NORTON READER edited by Arthur M. Eastman et al. THE NORTON FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE prepared by Charlton Hinman and the NORTON CRITICAL EDITIONS Copyright© 1973byW.W.Norton&Company, Inc. FIRSTEDITION LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublication Data Swift,Jonathan, 1667-1745. ThewritingsofJonathanSwift. (ANortoncriticaledition) Bibliography: p. I.Greenberg,RobertA.,ed. II.Piper,William Bowman, 1927— PR3722.G7 828'.5'09 72-7038 ISBN0-393-04283-9 ISBN0-393-09415-4 (pbk.) ALLRIGHTSRESERVED PublishedsimultaneouslyinCanada byGeorge McLeod Limited,Toronto J. PRINTEDINTHEUNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA 1234567890 ) ) ) ) ) 8 Contents Preface ix The Text of Gulliver's Travels (1726) 1 The Texts of A Tale of a Tub and Other Prose ATaleofaTub \ 263 TheBattel oftheBooks I 373 ADiscourseConcerning >(1697-1710) 397 theMechanicalOperation of V theSpirit,a Fragment / AMeditationuponaBroom-stick (1703-10) 421 ATritical Essay (1707-11) 422 PredictionsfortheYear 1708 426 TheAccomplishmentoftheFirstofMr.Bickerstaff's Predictions (1708) 434 AVindicationof IsaacBickerstaff,Esq. (1709) 436 FromJournaltoStella (1710) 441 TheTatler,No.CCXXX (1710) 448 TheExaminer,No. 14 (1710) 452 TheTatler,No. 5(1711) 456 AnArgumentagainstAbolishingChristianity 708-1 460 (1 1 ALettertoaYoungGentleman (1720) 471 ALettertotheTradesmen,Shop-Keepers, Farmers, andCommon-People ofIreland (1724) 487 AShortViewoftheStateofIreland (1728) 496 AModestProposal 729 5°2 (1 The Texts of the Poems BaucisandPhilemon (1706-09 513 ADescriptionoftheMorning (1709 51 ADescriptionofa CityShower (1710) 5*8 Phillis,or,theProgressofLove 1719) 520 ( TheProgressofBeauty (1719-20 522 OnStella'sBirth-day, 1719 525 ) VI CONTENTS TheProgressofPoetry (1720) 526 Stella'sBirth-day, 1721 527 ASatiricalElegyontheDeathofa late Famous General (1722) 528 TheFurnitureofaWoman'sMind (1727) 529 Stella'sBirth-day, 1727 531 APastoral Dialogue (1729 533 TheLady'sDressingRoom (1730) 535 ABeautifulYoungNymphGoingtoBed (1731) 538 StrephonandChloe (1731) 540 CassinusandPeter (1731) 547 VersesontheDeathofDr.Swift,D.S.P.D. (1731-32) 550 TheBeasts'Confession tothePriest (1732) 562 OnPoetry: ARapsody (1733) 567 TheDayofJudgement (1732-33) 578 Backgrounds Correspondence SwifttoCharlesFord (Jan. 19, 1724;Aug. 14, 1725) 583 SwifttotheRev.ThomasSheridan (Sept. 11, 1725) 583 SwifttoAlexanderPope (Sept. 29, 1725) 584 SwifttoAlexanderPope (Nov. 26, 1725) 585 John ArbuthnottoSwift (Nov. 5, 1726) 586 AlexanderPopetoSwift (Nov. 16, 1726) 587 JohnGaytoSwift (Nov. 17, 1726) 587 SwifttoMrs.Howard (Nov.27, 1726) 589 SwifttoAlexanderPope (Nov. 27, 1726) 59° SwifttoL'AbbedesFontaines (July, 1727) 591 WilliamWotton • ObservationsupontheTaleofaTub 592 EdmundCurll • SomeAnnotationsandExplanatory Notesupon theTaleofaTub 59$ ThomasSheridan • [TheCompositionof"AMeditation uponaBroomstick"] 600 Alexander Pope • [Swift'sOddBluntWay] 602 AlexanderPope • MaryGullivertoCaptainLemuelGulliver 603 LaetitiaPilkington • [Swift'sConductasaHost] 605 Criticism NormanO. Brown • TheExcrementalVision 611 SamuelHoltMonk • ThePrideofLemuelGulliver 631 Allan Bloom • AnOutlineofGulliversTravels 648 NigelDennis • SwiftandDefoe 661 EdwardW.Rosenheim,Jr. • TheSatiricFiction 669