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The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift: Volume I, Letters 1690-1714

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From: Anglican and Episcopal History
Date: 20011201
Author:Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh

The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift A Review Article: DAVID WOOLLEY, ED. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift: Volume I, Letters 1690-1714. Frankfurt am Main, 1999. Pp. 650. $99.00.

The greatest writer in the Anglican tradition is Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). In the light of his many rivals-ranging from John Donne, the great seventeenth century poet and pulpiteer, to T.S. Eliot, who won the Nobel prize in 1948 for his poetry, criticism, and drama-this may seem an extravagant, even wilful, claim. But Swift speaks not only to educated audiences; he has always seized the popular imagination in a ...

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