Swift's Irish Writings Selected Prose and

This edition presents Jonathan Swift's most important Irish writings in both prose and verse, together with introductions and annotations.

Carole Fabricant is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Swift's Landscape and numerous articles on Swift and other eighteenth-century writers and topics. She has lectured on both sides of the Atlantic and has been a participant in an ongoing NEH summer seminar on "Anglo-Irish Identities, 1660-1800," held at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame
Robert Mahony is the author of Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity and numerous articles on Swift. He was the founding Director of Irish Studies at the Catholic University of America, where he retired as Professor of English. He held teaching positions at the University of Illinois; Trinity College, Dublin; Queens University, Belfast; University College, Cork; the National University of Ireland, Maynooth; and the University of Vienna

PART I: Prose * The Story of the Injured Lady * The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Elliston * A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture * A Proposal to the Ladies of Ireland * A Short View of the State of Ireland * A Modest Proposal * The Drapier’s Letters (I-VII) * A Full and True Account of . . . the Execution of William Wood * Sermon: Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland * Sermon: Doing Good * Sermon: On False Witness * The Intelligencer, No XIX * An Answer to a Paper called "A Memorial" * A Letter to the Archbishop of Dublin, concerning the Weavers * An Answer to Several Letters from Unknown Persons * A Proposal to Pay Off the Debt of the Nation * Maxims Controlled in Ireland * An Answer to the Craftsman * An Examination of Certain Abuses, Corruptions and Enormities in the City of Dublin * The Humble Petition of the Footmen of Dublin * The Blunders . . . and Misfortunes of Quilca * Queries relating to the Sacramental Test * Reasons Humbly Offered to the Parliament of Ireland . . . * On the Bill for the Clergy’s Residing on Their Livings * Consideration Upon Two Bills . . . * Advice to the Freemen of Dublin * A Proposal for Giving Badges to the Beggars of Dublin * A Dialogue in Hybernian Stile between A and B * Swift’s letter to the Earl of Peterborough (28 April 1726) * PART II: Poems * The Petition of Frances Harris * Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter * Part of the Ninth Ode of Fourth Book of Horace * An Excellent New Song on a Seditious Pamphlet * The Description of an Irish Feast * An Epilogue to a Play for the Benefit of the Weavers in Ireland * The Journal (aka The Part of a Summer) * A Quibbling Elegy on the Worshipful Judge Boat * To Charles Ford, on His Birthday * Stella at Woodpark Stella's Birthday (1725) * An Excellent New Song upon . . .[the] Archbishop of Dublin * Prometheus * Whitshed's Motto on his Coach * Horace, Book I, Ode XIV ("Paraphrased and Inscribed to Ireland") * To Quilca * Verses from Quilca * Ireland (from Holyhead Journal) * Dick, A Maggot * Dick's Variety * My Lady's Lamentation . . .against the Dean * Lady Acheson Weary of the Dean * Verses Occasioned by the Sudden Drying up of St. Patrick's Well * Drapier's Hill * A Pastoral Dialogue * The Revolution at Market Hill * On the Irish Club * An Epistle upon an Epistle * A Libel on the Rev. Dr. Delany * Traulus * An Excellent New Ballad; or the True English Dean to be Hanged for a Rape * Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift * The Place of the Damned * On the Irish Bishops * The Yahoo's Overthrow * On a Printer's being sent to Newgate * Aye and No: A Tale from Dublin * A Character . . . of the Legion Club

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Swift's Irish Writings Selected Prose and Poetry

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