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Jonathan Swift: Our Dean

Eugene Hammond

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Description:Jonathan Swift: Our Dean details the political climax of his remarkable career his writing and publication of The Drapier s Letters (1724), Gulliver s Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729) stressing the thorough political opposition he faced and the numerous ways (including his sermons) that he worked from his political base as Dean of St. Patrick s Cathedral, psychologically as well as physically just outside the Dublin city walls, to attempt to rouse the Irish people to awareness of the ways that England was abusing them and that they were neglecting their own interests. This book faces squarely the likelihood that Swift had a physical affair with Esther Vanhomrigh between 1719 and 1723, and reassesses in the light of that likelihood his conflicting relations with Esther V. and Esther Johnson. It questions Swift s closeness to Alexander Pope and to Viscount Bolingbroke, emphasizing the considerable evidence that he enjoyed and found satisfying his daily life in Ireland while he consistently downplayed in his letters to Pope and Bolingbroke. It traces the many loving friendships with both men and women in Ireland that sustained him during the years when his health gradually failed him, enabling him to continue indefatiguably, both through his writings and his authority as Dean of St. Patrick s, to contribute to the public welfare in the face of relentless British attempts to squeeze greater and greater profits out of their Irish colony. Finally, it traces how Swift s political indignation led to his treating many people, friends and enemies, insensitively, even while Swift s humor and his ability to make and attract new friends sustained themselves until his memory finally failed him in 1742. This biography, in two books, Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in and Jonathan Swift: Our Dean, differs from most literary biographies in that it does not aim to show how Swift s life illuminates his writings, but rather how and why Swift wrote in order to live the life he wanted to live. I have liberally quoted Swift s own words in this biography because his inventive expression of ideas, both in his public works and in his private letters, was what has made him a unique and compelling figure in the history of literature. I hope in these two books to come closer than past biographies to capturing how it felt to Swift himself to live his life."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jonathan Swift: Our Dean. To get started finding Jonathan Swift: Our Dean, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Jonathan Swift: Our Dean details the political climax of his remarkable career his writing and publication of The Drapier s Letters (1724), Gulliver s Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729) stressing the thorough political opposition he faced and the numerous ways (including his sermons) that he worked from his political base as Dean of St. Patrick s Cathedral, psychologically as well as physically just outside the Dublin city walls, to attempt to rouse the Irish people to awareness of the ways that England was abusing them and that they were neglecting their own interests. This book faces squarely the likelihood that Swift had a physical affair with Esther Vanhomrigh between 1719 and 1723, and reassesses in the light of that likelihood his conflicting relations with Esther V. and Esther Johnson. It questions Swift s closeness to Alexander Pope and to Viscount Bolingbroke, emphasizing the considerable evidence that he enjoyed and found satisfying his daily life in Ireland while he consistently downplayed in his letters to Pope and Bolingbroke. It traces the many loving friendships with both men and women in Ireland that sustained him during the years when his health gradually failed him, enabling him to continue indefatiguably, both through his writings and his authority as Dean of St. Patrick s, to contribute to the public welfare in the face of relentless British attempts to squeeze greater and greater profits out of their Irish colony. Finally, it traces how Swift s political indignation led to his treating many people, friends and enemies, insensitively, even while Swift s humor and his ability to make and attract new friends sustained themselves until his memory finally failed him in 1742. This biography, in two books, Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in and Jonathan Swift: Our Dean, differs from most literary biographies in that it does not aim to show how Swift s life illuminates his writings, but rather how and why Swift wrote in order to live the life he wanted to live. I have liberally quoted Swift s own words in this biography because his inventive expression of ideas, both in his public works and in his private letters, was what has made him a unique and compelling figure in the history of literature. I hope in these two books to come closer than past biographies to capturing how it felt to Swift himself to live his life."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jonathan Swift: Our Dean. To get started finding Jonathan Swift: Our Dean, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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