Swifts Irish Writings Selected Prose and Poetry [Hardcover]

This edition presents Jonathan Swift's most important Irish writings in both prose and verse, together with an introduction, head notes and annotations that shed new light on the full context and significance of each piece. Familiar works such as Gulliver's Travels and A Tale of a Tub acquire new and deeper meanings when considered within the Irish frameworks presented in the edition. Differing in noteworthy ways from the more traditional, canonical, Anglocentric picture conveyed by other published volumes, the Swift that emerges from these pages is a brilliant polemicist, popular satirist, political agitator, playful versifier, tormented Jeremiah, and Irish patriot.PART I: PROSE The Story of the Injured Lady The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Elliston A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture A Proposal to the Ladies of Ireland A Short View of the State of Ireland A Modest Proposal The Drapier's Letters (I-VII) A Full and True Account of . . . the Execution of William Wood Sermon: Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland Sermon: Doing Good Sermon: On False Witness The Intelligencer, No XIX An Answer to a Paper called 'A Memorial' A Letter to the Archbishop of Dublin, concerning the Weavers An Answer to Several Letters from Unknown Persons A Proposal to Pay Off the Debt of the Nation Maxims Controlled in Ireland An Answer to the Craftsman An Examination of Certain Abuses, Corruptions and Enormities in the City of Dublin The Humble Petition of the Footmen of Dublin The Blunders . . . and Misfortunes of Quilca Queries relating to the Sacramental Test Reasons Humbly Offered to the Parliament of Ireland . . . On the Bill for the Clergy's Residing on Their Livings Consideration Upon Two Bills . . . Advice to the Freemen of Dublin A Proposal for Giving Badges to the Beggars of Dublin A Dialogue in Hybernian Stile between A and B Swift's letter to the Earl of Peterborough (28 April 1726) PART II: POEMS The Petition of Frances Harris Mary the Coolãb