Jonathan Swift

This is a good page on Swift from Brittanica.com.

Here is a good collection of Swift links.

An interesting way to see the scope of Swift's work is to browse through the list of his citations at the Library of Congress. Did anything you found there surprise you?

Here is "A Modest Proposal" in etext. Read part of it online. Is the experience different from your experience reading it in print?

Here's Gulliver's Travels in several different etext formats. Is there a way of telling which text is completely (or most) reliable?

Here is Swift's Battle of the Books and Other Short Piecesinetext.

Interested in putting Swift into a historical context? This is what Samuel Johnson, a contemporary, wrote about him.

Did you know that Swift also wrote poetry? Here is a page with links to some of Swift's poems. Pick a poem and study it. Can you link the poem to Swift's prose?

Interested in some more background about the gruesome subject material in this piece? Here's an essay about cannibalism. What is the tone of this essay? How can you tell? Can you compare it to "A Modest Proposal"?

Jonathan Swift is best known for his satirical works. Interested in taking a look at some contemporary satire? Check out the homepage of The Onion.