Jonathan Swift: Encyclopedia II - Jonathan Swift - Writings

Jonathan Swift - Writings

Dating generally follows the Norton Critical and Oxford Authors single-volume editions of Swift's writings, as well as Herbert Davis's (ed.) Swift: Poetical Works.

Jonathan Swift - Major Prose

• A Tale of a Tub and assorted pieces (1704-1710):
  • A Tale of a Tub: Full texts: U of Adelaide, Blackmask, Project Gutenberg; Extract from "A Digression on Madness": Jack Lynch
  • The Battle of the Books: Full annotated text: Jack Lynch
  • The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, A Fragment
• Gulliver's Travels (1726): Full annotated text: JaffeBros
• "A Modest Proposal" (1729): Full annotated text: Jack Lynch

Jonathan Swift - Essays Tracts Pamphlets Periodicals

• "A Meditation upon a Broomstick" (1703-1710): Full text: Blackmask
• "A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind" (1707-1711)
• The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers (1708-1709): Full text: U of Adelaide
• "An Argument against Abolishing Christianity" (1708-1711): Full text: U of Adelaide
• The Intelligencer (with Thomas Sheridan) (1710-????): Text: Project Gutenberg
• The Examiner (1710): Texts: Ourcivilisation.com, Project Gutenberg
• "A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue" (1712): Full texts: Jack Lynch, U of Virginia
• "On the Conduct of the Allies" (1713)
• "Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation" (1713): Full text: Bartleby.com
• "A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Entered into Holy Orders" (1720)
• "A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet" (1721): Full text: Bartleby.com
• The Drapier's Letters (1724, 1725): Full text: Project Gutenberg
• "An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen": Full text: JaffeBros
• "A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding": Full text: Bartleby.com
• "On the Death of Esther Johnson": Full text: Bartleby.com
• "An Essay On Modern Education": Full text: JaffeBros

Jonathan Swift - Poems

• Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Texts at Project Gutenberg: Volume One, Volume Two
• "Baucis and Philemon" (1706-1709): Full text: Blackmask
• "A Description of the Morning" (1709): Full annotated text: U of Toronto; Another text: U of Virginia
• "A Description of a City Shower" (1710): Full text: U of Virginia
• "Cadenus and Vanessa" (1713): Full text: Blackmask
• "Phillis, or, the Progress of Love" (1719): Full text: theotherpages.org
• Stella's birthday poems:
  • 1719. Full annotated text: U of Toronto
  • 1720. Full text: U of Virginia
  • 1727. Full text: U of Toronto
• "The Progress of Beauty" (1719-1720): Full text: OurCivilisation.com
• "The Progress of Poetry" (1720): Full text: theotherpages.org
• "A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General" (1722): Full text: U of Toronto
• "To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair" (1725): Full text: U of Toronto
• "Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers" (1726): Full text: U of Toronto
• "The Furniture of a Woman's Mind" (1727)
• "On a Very Old Glass" (1728): Full text: Gosford.co.uk
• "A Pastoral Dialogue" (1729): Full text: Gosford.co.uk
• "The Grand Question debated Whether Hamilton's Bawn should be turned into a Barrack or a Malt House" (1729): Full text: Gosford.co.uk
• "On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet" (1730): Full text: U of Toronto
• "Death and Daphne" (1730): Full text: OurCivilisation.com
• "The Place of the Damn'd" (1731): Full text
• "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed" (1731): Full annotated text: Jack Lynch; Another text: U of Virginia
• "Strephon and Chloe" (1731): Full annotated text: Jack Lynch; Another text: U of Virginia
• "Helter Skelter" (1731): Full text: OurCivilisation.com
• "Cassinus and Peter: A Tragical Elegy" (1731): Full annotated text: Jack Lynch
• "The Day of Judgment" (1731): Full text
• "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D." (1731-1732): Full annotated texts: Jack Lynch, U of Toronto; Non-annotated text:: U of Virginia
• "An Epistle To A Lady" (1732): Full text: OurCivilisation.com
• "The Beasts' Confession to the Priest" (1732): Full annotated text: U of Toronto
• "The Lady's Dressing Room" (1732): Full annotated text: Jack Lynch
• "On Poetry: A Rhapsody" (1733)
• "The Puppet Show" Full text: Worldwideschool.org
• "The Logicians Refuted" Full text: Worldwideschool.org

Jonathan Swift - Correspondance Personal Writings

• "When I Come to Be Old"—Swift's resolutions. (1699): Full text: JaffeBros
• The Journal to Stella (1710-1713): Full text: U of Adelaide; Extracts: OurCivilisation.com
• Letters:
  • Selected Letters: JaffeBros
  • To Oxford and Pope: OurCivilisation.com

Jonathan Swift - Sermons Prayers

• Three Sermons and Three Prayers. Full text: U of Adelaide, Project Gutenberg
• Three Sermons: I. on mutual subjection. II. on conscience. III. on the trinity. Text: Project Gutenberg
• Writings on Religion and the Church. Text at Project Gutenberg: Volume One, Volume Two
• "The First He Wrote Oct. 17, 1727." Full text: Worldwideschool.org
• "The Second Prayer Was Written Nov. 6, 1727." Full text: Worldwideschool.org

Jonathan Swift - Miscellany

• Directions to Servants (1731):: Extracts: OurCivilisation.com
• A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (1731)
• "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Full text: U of Adelaide
• Historical Writings: Project Gutenberg
• Swift Quotations: JaffeBros—Many choice, well-documented Swift quotations here.
• Swift quotes at Bartleby: Bartleby.com—59 quotations, with notes.

• See, Timeline of environmental events

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