Swift at Moor Park : problems in biography and criticism /

Sometime toward the middle of 1689, a twentyƯone-year-old Irishman named Jonathan Swift entered the employ of Sir William Temple, an essayist and retired diplomat. Swift spent most of the next decade working as secretary at Moor Park, Temple's country house in Surrey. When he left in 1699, he w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elias, A. C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
Temas:
Swift, Jonathan, > 1667-1745 > Homes and haunts > England > Moor Park.
Temple, William, > 1628-1699 > Homes and haunts > England > Moor Park.
Swift, Jonathan, > 1667-1745.
Temple, William, > 1628-1699.
Swift, Jonathan.
Temple, William (Politiker)
Moor Park (England)
1700-1799
Authors, Irish > 18th century > Biography.
Statesmen > Great Britain > Biography.
Écrivains irlandais > 18e siècle > Biographies.
Hommes d'État > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Authors, Irish.
Homes.
Intellectual life.
Statesmen.
England > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
England.
Great Britain.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • 1. Swift as Secretary: The Downton Transcript and Swift's Translations from Temple's French Letters
  • 2. Further Secretarial Duties: Swift, Thomas Swift, and Temple's Campaigns Against Dunton and DuCros
  • 3. Swift's References to Temple: Autobiographical Fragment, Prefaces to Late Temple Works, the Ode to the Honble Sir William Temple and Other Early Verse, the Journal to Stella and Marginalia in Burnet's History, the Journal d'Estat de M' T-, Inscriptions in Books Received from Temple
  • 4. Moor Park and the Traditions of Swift Biography
  • 5. The Temple Element in the Satires: A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books in a Moor Park Context
  • Notes
  • Appendices
  • Index.

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