Essential Articles for the Study of Jonathan Swift's Poetry
Author: David M. Vieth
Publisher: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
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A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Description of the Morning"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1410344142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Description of the Morning," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Reading Swift's Poetry
Author: Daniel Cook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-08-13
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1108899102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoets are makers, etymologically speaking. In practice, they are also thieves. Over a long career, from the early 1690s to the late 1730s, Jonathan Swift thrived on a creative tension between original poetry-making and the filching of familiar material from the poetic archive. The most extensive study of Swift's verse to appear in more than thirty years, Reading Swift's Poetry offers detailed readings of dozens of major poems, as well as neglected and recently recovered pieces. This book reaffirms Swift's prominence in competing literary traditions as diverse as the pastoral and the political, the metaphysical and the satirical, and demonstrates the persistence of unlikely literary tropes across his multifaceted career. Daniel Cook also considers the audacious ways in which Swift engages with Juvenal's satires, Horace's epistles, Milton's epics, Cowley's odes, and an astonishing array of other canonical and forgotten writers.
Jonathan Swift
Author: Nigel Wood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1317893158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of critical thinking situates the satire of Jonathan Swift within both its eighteenth-century contexts and our modern anxieties about personal identity and communication. Augustan satire at its most provocative is not simply concerned with the public matters of politics or religion, but also offers a precise medium in which to express the paradox of ironic detachment amidst deep conviction. The critics chosen for this volume demonstrate the complexity of Swift's work. Its four sections explore matters of authorial identity, the relation between Swift's writing and its historical context, the full range of his comments on gender, and his deployment of metaphor and irony to engage the reader. Swift has often been regarded as a writer who anticipated many twentieth-century cultural preoccupations, and this volume provides an opportunity to test just how modern he actually was. It also provides an answer to those who would wish to simplify his writing as that of Tory and misogynist. The theoretical perspectives of the contributors are lucidly explained and their critical terms located in the wider contexts of contemporary theory in the introduction and headnotes. The volume places Swift historically within the philosophical and religious traditions of eighteenth-century thought.
Jonathan Swift and the Burden of the Future
Author: Alan D. Chalmers
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780874135541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Alan Chalmers's Jonathan Swift and the Burden of the Future explores Swift's temporal apprehension in the context of the pertinent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious, scientific, and cultural debates. It also compares Swift's imaginative understanding of time with that of such other writers as Juvenal, Rabelais, Milton, Pope, Gray, and Whitman."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Reader's Guide to Literature in English
Author: Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 1024
ISBN-13: 1135314179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Author: Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-01-27
Total Pages: 581
ISBN-13: 0521874343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.
The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry
Author: Peter Hühn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-08-11
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 3110897628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study offers a fresh approach to the theory and practice of poetry criticism from a narratological perspective. Arguing that lyric poems share basic constituents of narration with prose fiction, namely temporal sequentiality of events and verbal mediation, the authors propose the transgeneric application of narratology to the poetic genre with the aim of utilizing the sophisticated framework of narratological categories for a more precise and complex modeling of the poetic text. On this basis, the study provides a new impetus to the neglected field of poetic theory as well as to methodology. The practical value of such an approach is then demonstrated by detailed model analyses of canonical English poems from all major periods between the 16th and the 20th centuries. The comparative discussion of these analyses draws general conclusions about the specifics of narrative structures in lyric poetry in contrast to prose fiction.
Jonathan Swift
Author: Leo Damrosch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-11-12
Total Pages: 587
ISBN-13: 0300164998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraws on discoveries made in the past three decades to paint a new portrait of the satirist, speculating on his parentage, love life, and relationships while claiming that the public image he projected was intentionally misleading.
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift
Author: Christopher Fox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-09-11
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521002837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial dimensions of Swift s life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift s writing - including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift s vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age. The Companion offers a lucid introduction to these and other issues, and raises new questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.
