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Swift, Jonathan

  1. In Anderson, Howard, ed. Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century. Lawrence University of Kansas Press, 1966. pp. 14-33.
    Biography -- Letters

  2. In Anderson, Quentin. The Proper Study; Essays on Western Classics . New York, St. Martin's Press, 1962. pp. 449-462.
    Criticism -- Works

  3. In Barzun, Jacques. The Energies of Art. New York, Harper, 1956. pp. 81-100.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  4. In Bennett, James O'Donnell. Much Loved Books. New York : Liveright, c1927. pp. 333-338.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  5. In Bloom, Harold, ed. Eighteenth-Century British Fiction. New York: Chelsea House, 1988. pp. 53-82.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  6. In Boyd, Ernest. Literary Blasphemies. New York, Greenwood Press, 1969. pp. 74-105.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works -- Gulliver's Travels

  7. In Brower, Reuben, ed. In Defense of Reading. New York, Dutton, 1962. pp. 174-190.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  8. In Carnegie Institute of Technology Department of English and Sochatoff, A. Fred. Six Satirists. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1965. pp. 35-50.
    Criticism -- Works -- Essays -- "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity" -- Gulliver's Travels-- Journal to Stella -- "A Modest Proposal"

  9. In Clayborough, Arthur. The Grotesque in English Literature. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965. pp. 112-157.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels -- "A Tale of the Tub"

  10. In Dobree, Bonamy, ed. English Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-1740. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1959. pp. 432-474, 54-72, 84-94.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works -- Essays -- Letters -- Poetry -- "The Battle of the Books" -- Gulliver's Travels -- "A Modest Proposal..." -- "A Tale of the Tub"

  11. In Downs, Robert B. Molders of the Modern Mind . New York, Barnes & Noble, 1961. pp. 115-119.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  12. In Dudley, Edward. The Wild Man Within . Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973. pp. 211-216.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  13. In Essays on the Eighteenth Century. New York, Russell & Russell, 1963. pp. 15-32.
    Criticism -- Works

  14. In Gardiner, Harold C. ed. The Great Books: A Christian Appraisal. Vol.2. New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1950. pp. 88-97.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  15. In Gray, Wallace. Homer to Joyce. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, c1985. pp. 175-184.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  16. In Highet, Gilbert. The Classical Tradition . London, Oxford U.P., 1967. pp. 285-286, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Works -- "A Tale of the Tub"

  17. In Holloway, John. The Charted Mirror. New York, Horizon Press, 1962. pp. 75-93.
    Criticism -- Essays -- Satire -- "Argument Against Abolishing Christianity" -- "Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit" -- Gulliver's Travels -- "A Modest Proposal ..."

  18. In Howe, Irving, ed. Modern Literary Criticism . Boston, Beacon Press, 1958. pp. 125-138.
    Criticism -- Works -- Irony in Literature -- "Digression Concerning the Use of Madness in a Commonwealth" -- Gulliver's Travels

  19. In If By Your Art . Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1948. pp. 71-95.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  20. In Jones, Richard Foster. Seventeenth Century. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1951. pp 10-40, 181-195.
    Criticism -- Essays -- Letters -- "The Battle of the Books

  21. In Keener, Frederick M. The Chain of Becoming: The Philosophical Tale, The Novel, and a Neglected Realism of the Enlightenment: Swift, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Johnson, and Austen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. pp. 89-126.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  22. In Kernan, Alvin. The Plot of Satire . New Haven, Yale University Press, 1965. pp. 51-65, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Works -- "The Death of Dr. Swift" -- "The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit" -- "A Tale of the Tub"

  23. In Kirk, Rudolf, ed. Essays in Literary History . New Brunswick, N. J., Rutgers University Press, 1960. pp. 113-126.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  24. In Kitchin, George. A Survey of the Burlesque and Parody in English. New York, Russell & Russell, 1967. pp. 155-162.
    Criticism -- "The Battle of the Books" -- Gulliver's Travels -- "A Tale of the Tub"

  25. In Knight, G. Wilson. Poets of Action. London, Methuen, 1967. pp. 163-178.
    Criticism -- Works -- "The Battle of the Books" -- Gulliver's Travels "A Tale of the Tub"

  26. In Kreuzer, James R., and Cogan, Lee. Modern Writings on Major English Authors. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1963]. pp. 333-352.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  27. In Leavis, F.R. The Common Pursuit London, Chatto & Windus, 1952. pp. 73-87.
    Criticism -- Works -- Irony in Literature -- "Digression Concerning the Use of Madness in a Commonwealth" -- Gulliver's Travels

  28. In Legouis, Emile. A History of English Literature. New York, Macmillan, 1964. pp. 758-768.
    Criticism -- Works

  29. In Mazzeo, J. A. Reason and Imagination . New York, Columbia University Press, 1962. pp. 231-254.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  30. In Milburn, D. Judson. The Age of Wit, 1650-1750 .New York, Macmillan, 1966. pp. 141-151, 296-302.
    Criticism -- Works -- Gulliver's Travels -- "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift"

  31. In Nicolson, Marjorie Hope. Voyages to the Moon. New York, Macmillan, 1948.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  32. In Orwell, George. The Collected Essays, Letters and Journalism of George Orwell. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. pp. 205-223.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  33. In Partridge, Eric. Here, There and Everywhere. New York, Farrar, Straus, 1950. pp. 126-130.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  34. In Price, Martin. To the Palace of Wisdom . Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1964. pp. 179-203, 207-214.
    Criticism -- Works -- Gulliver's Travels -- "A Tale of the Tub"

  35. In Read, Herbert. Collected Essays in Literary Criticism. London, Faber and Faber, 1938. pp. 196-219.
    Criticism -- Works -- Irony in Literature -- Poetry -- Gulliver's Travels

  36. In Rexroth, Kenneth. More Classics Revisited . New York : New Directions, c1986. pp. 69-71.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  37. In Rowse, A.L. The English Spirit. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1967. pp. 170-178.
    Criticism -- Poems

  38. In Steeves, Harrison. Before Jane Austen. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. pp. 43-52.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  39. In Sutherland, W.O.S. The Art of the Satirist . Austin, University of Texas, 1965. pp. 107-126.
    Criticism -- Gulliver's Travels

  40. In Williams, Oscar, ed. Master Poems of the English Language. New York : Trident Press, 1966. pp. 262-264.
    Criticism -- "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.D.P."

  41. In Wilson, Edmund. Classics and Commercials . New York, Farrar, Straus, 1950. pp. 453-459.
    Criticism -- Journal to Stella

  42. In Woolf, Virigina. The Second Common Reader . New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, c1932. pp. 68-79.
    Criticism -- Journal to Stella

  43. In Worcester, David. The Art of Satire. New York, Russell & Russell, 1960. pp. 102-107, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Works -- Gulliver's Travels

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