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Tales of a Tub-Thumper

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19990822
Author:Gregory Feeley

JONATHAN SWIFT

A Portrait

By Victoria Glendinning

Henry Holt. 324 pp. $35

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF

JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.

Volume I. Letters 1690-1714

Edited by David Woolley

Peter Lang. 650 pp. $73.95

Reviewed by Gregory Feeley

This year marks the 300th anniversary of the composition of Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, at least to the degree that this most paradoxical of texts can be assigned a date. First published in 1704, it was evidently completed five years earlier (and underwent expansion in subsequent editions for another six years). It made Swift famous, and remains for many his finest ...

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