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The Irish Literary Times
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Up-to-Date Coverage of The World of Irish Literature
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350 years after his birth, Swift’s savage indignation can still reach right into our hearts 
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A collection of recent essays, as well as classic earlier work extensively revised, to offer fresh insights into an era when Swift's voice was a pervasive presence.
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What strange being could have produced the most caustic, lucid, perplexing satires in the English language? Jonathan Swift has always both attracted and nettled biographers. Soon after his death in 1745, memoirists were jostling to unpuzzle the private life of this censor of his times. Modern biographers have followed their lead, trying to diagnose his misanthropy. All Swift's satires were written in some invented first person – the clever economist with A Modest Proposal to make the Irish eat their babies, the up‑to-date hack who narrates A Tale of a Tub, gullible Gulliver, tumbling from pride to self-disgust; all were published anonymously. Swift is not "there" in any of them. All the more reason for trying to find the author, whom none of us can quite detach from Gulliver in his final dark enlightenment, realising that he is but a Yahoo: sly, vicious and lecherous.
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AUTHOR James Joyce's spirited impression of an Irish washerwoman's thick brogue accent is expected to send Joycean enthusiasts into a swoon.
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A Swift mind buzzing with excruciating puns, hoary hoaxes and brilliant bagatelles
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Ahead of this week’s Jonathan Swift Festival, Dave Rudden on passing on Swift’s legacy
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Trinity College Dublin marks 350th anniversary of Jonathan Swift’s birth with online exhibition, library display and conference
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The time is not remote, when I Must by the course of nature die: When I foresee my special friends, Will try to find their private ends: Though it is hardly understood, Which way my death can do them good.
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New York Times 'Jonathan Swift,' by Leo Damrosch New York Times The Harvard professor Leo Damrosch's commanding new biography, “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World,” does ample justice to a figure for whom religion and politics — the world —...
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