Bode, Carl (ed.): The New Mencken Letters (New York: The Dial Press, 1977). Case, Arthur E.: ‘The Text of Gulliver’s Travels’, in Arthur E. Case: Four Essays on ...

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 ...

Ian Higgins works for the Australian National University. In our series, Guide to the classics, experts explain key works of literature. Pick up Gulliver’s Travels expecting a children’s book or a ...

Happy 350th birthday, Jonathan Swift. Widely recognised as the leading satirist in the history of the English language, Swift found his way into the world 350 years ago on November 30, 1667.

Yet, except for “Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver” (better known to moderns as “Gulliver’s Travels”), Swift is much more written about than read today. Indeed, when ...

When Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, ostensibly by “Lemuel Gulliver”, was published in London in 1726, almost everyone knew that its author was actually Jonathan Swift. Dean of St ...