Included are Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub, The Battel of the Books, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, numerous essays and other prose pieces, and poems, among them several that are rarely reprinted. All of the texts are scrupulously edited and annotated.
Backgrounds includes correspondence between Swift and members of his circle and observations by his contemporaries.
Criticism offers evaluations by Norman O. Brown, Samuel Holt Monk, Allan Bloom, Nigel Dennis, Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr., A. E. Dyson, William Frost, C. J. Rawson, Kathleen Williams, Martin Price, Robert M. Adams, and Jay Arnold Levine.
An Annotated Bibliography guides the reader to important works for further study.
- ISBN10 0393094154
- ISBN13 9780393094152
- Publish Date 1 April 1973 (first published 1 January 1973)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 752
- Language English