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The correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D. : in four volumes, volume 2, letters 1714-1426 nos. 301-700

Edited by David Woolley
Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, 2001

ISBN: 0820435481

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Book description
The collected letters of Jonathan Swift, DD, Irish dean and celebrated author of Gulliver's Travels, have long been esteemed with the best to have emerged from eighteenth century england, an age distinguished for the excellence of its letters. In the half century from 1690 to 1740, some two hundred and thirty contemporaries, in all walks of life, thought to preserve his autographs : among them were his literary friends, his printers and publishers, politicians of the day in England and Ireland, his ecclesiastical superiors and other clergy, his friends of the nobility, and closer friends and relatives. He also diligently kept many of their replies. Together these project a marvelously animated panorama not only of his own life, but of his varied acquaintance, and the scenes of London, Dublin, and the scenes of London, and rural Ireland through a deeply interesting historical era. This entirely new exiting prepared by a recognized authority presents over 1500 letters, derived from the earliest authentic texts in manuscript or print, and provides the most comprehensive commentary to date, based upon published and unpublished research of the last thirty years.

About the author
David Woolley was born in Shanghai, china, and was educated in Japan and Australia. In 1987 upon his retirement he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Monash University, Victoria and now lives in Perth, Western Australia. In June 2000, upon publication of volume 1 of this edition, he was awarded the degree Ph.D.h.c. by the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitst of Munster.

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