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 ...
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 ...
In his latest, Harvard literature professor and veteran biographer Damrosch (Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius) recounts the life of satirist Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels. The ...
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