Utopian Studies, March 22nd, 1999
David Woolley, ed. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Vol. 1, Letters 1690-1714. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999. 650 pp. $73.95. DAVID WOOLLEY'S NEW EDITION of Swift's letters presents a clear and authoritative text, with thousands of errors, discrepancies and confusions present in earlier editions cleared away. It is a scholarly work, derived from the earliest authentic texts in manuscript or print and is based on published and unpublished research of the last thirty years. But why is there no introduction to Swift commensurate with the stature of this writer? He is a major figu...
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