This program was originally broadcast March 20, 2014. Jonathan Swift wrote “Gulliver’s Travels” and blistering satire on human nature. He’s relevant again. We’ll bring back Jonathan Swift. Anglo-Irish ...

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) had the most coruscating mind and enigmatic character of any writer in English. Sturdily built, with bright blue eyes, bristling brows and double chin, he was an energetic ...

The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) has honored “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World” by Leo Damrosch ‘63 — published by Yale University Press — as winner of the NBCC Award in the category of ...

Only occasionally does the title fail to live up to the book. A current example is Oxford and Cambridge scholar John Stubbs’ massive, magisterial “life and times” biography of Jonathan Swift ...

If Giorgio Vasari is the godfather of art history, James Brown is the godfather of soul, and Marlon Brando is the godfather, then Jonathan Swift is surely the godfather of satire. That is not to say ...

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel. By John Stubbs. W.W. Norton; 752 pages; $39.95. Viking; £25. “A TALE OF A TUB”, “Drapier’s Letters” and “A Modest Proposal”, which envisaged the Irish poor farming ...

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If Gulliver could travel through time, instead of sailing around the world, imagine how familiar the Yahoos of Washington would look to him now. What would he say about the roaring Lilliputians and ...

Jonathan Swift wrote “Gulliver’s Travels” and blistering satire on human nature. He’s relevant again. We’ll bring back Jonathan Swift. Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, pictured in a 1710 portrait.