JONATHAN SWIFT
July/August 2016
What is "enlightenment", and did one happen in 18th-century Ireland?
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January/February 2014
A brilliant enigma: Jonathan Swift (c.1718) by Charles Jervas
Swift's life was unusually rich in legends, rumours, stories and uncertainties,
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March 2013
Critics have wrongly disparaged the author of Gulliver's Travels, whom critics have disparaged as a misanthrope, a misogynist and a madman
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January/February 2012
For Jonathan Swift, a medicinal hogshead was the perfect measure of wine
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