Jonathan Swift (Critical Survey of Poetry, Second Revised Edition)
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Jonathan Swift’s major satires in prose are A Tale of a Tub (1704) and Gulliver’s Travels (originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships, 1726); both are included in the most useful general collection, The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift (1939-1968; 14 volumes.; Herbert Davis, editor); but “A Tale of a Tub” to Which Is Added “The Battle of the Books” and the “Mechanical Operation of the Spirit” (1958,...
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