Ebook {Epub PDF} Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World is a biography published in by the American author and historian Leo Damrosch. It covers the life of Jonathan Swift who in the eighteenth century wrote Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of the Tub. Many scholars consider Swift to be one of the greatest satirists and ironists in the history of the English language.  · Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch – review A new biography of the great ironist is convincing about his private life – was Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.  · National Book Critics Circle Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Leo Damrosch explores the enigmatic man behind Gulliver's Travels and explains why.

National Book Critics Circle Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Leo Damrosch explores the enigmatic man behind Gulliver's Travels and explains why. In this extract from Leo Damrosch's thoroughly researched biography, the author introduces Swift's early years and describes how his family found their way to Ireland. "The story that Jonathan Swift told is that he came into the world on Novem, in the house of his uncle Godwin Swift, in a little Dublin alley known as Hoey's. Jonathan Swift: His Life His World Leo Damrosch. Yale Univ, $35 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. The Secret Life of Jonathan Swift; OTHER BOOKS.

Assembling suggestive clues, Damrosch re-narrates the events of Swift’s life while making vivid the sights, sounds, and smells of his English and Irish www.doorway.ruh his own words and those of a wide circle of friends, a complex Swift emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic figure, a man of biting wit and powerful mind, and a major figure in the history of world letters. Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch – review A new biography of the great ironist is convincing about his private life – was he sexually twisted? Swift's dark enlightenment . National Book Critics Circle Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Leo Damrosch explores the enigmatic man behind Gulliver's Travels and explains why.