BEST LOVED SWIFT (BEST LOVED IRISH WRITERS) (HB)

This beautiful anthology contains extracts from Swift’s fiction, social satires, poems (both lyrical and scatological), essays in fantasy, epigrams, and personal letters. It also covers the twin stories of Swift’s controversial public career and of his unusual, conflicted, private life. Whether he was mocking the English king in Gulliver’s Travels, castigating the vanities of ladies of fashion, discussing garden design with the woman he loved or intervening on behalf of the underprivileged poor of Dublin who worshipped him, it should be no surprise that his exploits became a subject of native Gaelic folklore.