Jonathan Swift: The Selected Poems - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856262111 ISBN 13: 9781856262118

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 1996

Synopsis

A selection of Swift's poetry, which includes affectionate insights into the behaviour of his fellow men and of everyday life in Dublin. The anthology is arranged as closely as possibly in chronological order, and the poems are accompanied by commentary throughout the book.

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Advice To The Grub Street Verse Writers
An Answer To The Ballyspellin Ballad
The Author Upon Himself
The Author's Manner Of Living
Baucis And Philemon; Imitated From Ovid
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed
Cadenus And Vanessa
The Character Of Sir Robert Walpole
A Character, Panegyric, And Description Of The Legion Club
A Character, Panegyric, And Description Of The Legion Club
Clever Tom Clinch Going To Be Hanged
Corinna
The Day Of Judgement
A Description Of A City Shower
The Description Of An Irish Feast
A Description Of The Morning
Dick, A Maggot
Drapier's Hill
An Elegy On Dicky And Dolly
Elegy On The Much Lamented Death Of Mr. Demar ... Rich Userer
An Elegy On The Supposed Death Of Mr Partridge, The Almanac
An Epigram On Scolding
Epitaph In St Patrick's Calthedral Written Himself In Latin
Excellent New Ballad, Or The True English Dean To Be Hanged
An Excellent New Song On A Seditious Pamphlet
The Furniture Of A Woman's Mind
Helter Skelter; Or, The Hue And Cry After The Attorneys
Holyhead, September 25, 1727
Horace, Lib. 2, Sat. 6
The Humble Petition Of Frances Harris
In Sickness (1714)
The Lady's Dressing Room
A Libel On The Reverend Dr. Delany And John, Lord Carteret
Lines From Cadenus To Vanessa
Mad Mullinix And Timothy
Mary The Cook-maid's Letter To Doctor Sheridan, 1723
On A Curate's Complaint Of Hard Duty
On Burning A Dull Poem; Written In 1729
On Poetry: A Rhapsody
On The Death Of Dr. Swift
A Paper Book Is Sent By Boyle
A Pastoral Dialogue
Pethox The Great
Phyllis, Or, The Progress Of Love
The Place Of The Damned
The Progress Of Beauty
The Progress Of Marriage
A Quiet Life And A Good Name
The Run Upon The Bankers
A Satirical Elegy On The Death Of A Late Famous General
Stella At Woodpark
Stella's Birthday, 1718
Stella's Birthday, 1720
Stella's Birthday, 1725
Stella's Birthday, 1726-7
To Quilca; A Country House In No Good Repair
To Stella, Who Collected And Transcribed His Poems
Tom Mullinex And Dick
Verses I Left In A Window Of Dublin Castle
Verses Made For The Women Who Cry Apples, Etc
Verses Occasioned By The Sudden Drying Up..st.patrick's Well
Verses On I Know Not What
Swift's Epitaph
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Trafalgar Square
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856262111
• ISBN 13: 9781856262118
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 257
• Editor: Jeffares A. Norman