Newspaper cutting
Category
Ephemera
Date
15 Feb 1948
Materials
Newspaper
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3138420.1.2
Summary
A newspaper cutting cut to keep the date 'THE SUNDAY TIMES, FEBRUARY 15, 1948' kept in the book 'Journal to Stella . Jonathan Swift ; edited by Harold Williams.' by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) (record 3138420). 'Swift & Stella Swift's Journal to Stella. edited by Harold Williams. (Clarendon Press. 2 vols. 42s.) By SIR SHANE LESLIE THE modern spate of Swiftian studies comes to a dignified conclusion with the splendid volumes devoted by Harold Williams to the famous "JOURNAL TO STELLA," the most human work left by that somewhat inhuman Divine.....'. Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity and A Tale of a Tub. He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, Drapier's Letters as MB Drapier – or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".