ABSTRACT

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

chapter |29 pages

Introduction

chapter |1 pages

Note on the Text

chapter |10 pages

William Wotton on A Tale of a Tub

1705

chapter |2 pages

John Dennis on the Examiner

1712

chapter |2 pages

The aim of A Tale of a Tub

1714

chapter |4 pages

Voltaire on Swift

1727, 1734, 1756, 1767, 1777

chapter |13 pages

Abbé Desfontaines and Gulliver's Travels

1727, 1730, 1787

chapter |2 pages

Swift as political dictator

1728

chapter |4 pages

Samuel Richardson on Swift

1740, 1748, 1752, 1754

chapter |3 pages

Henry Fielding on Swift

1745, 1751, 1752

chapter |3 pages

David Hume on Swift

1751, 1752, 1768

chapter |17 pages

Lord Orrery on Swift

1752

chapter |7 pages

Patrick Delany on Swift

1754

chapter |8 pages

John Hawkesworth on Swift

1755

chapter |21 pages

W. H. Dilworth on Swift

1758

chapter |4 pages

George Lord Lyttelton on Swift

1760

chapter |1 pages

Oliver Goldsmith on Swift

1764

chapter |3 pages

Horace Walpole and his circle on Swift

1771, 1780

chapter |6 pages

Dr. Johnson on Swift

1779, 1785, 1791

chapter |15 pages

Hugh Blair on Swift's style

1783

chapter |18 pages

Thomas Sheridan on Swift

1784

chapter |3 pages

George-Monck Berkeley on Swift

1789

chapter |4 pages

Swift as satirist and poet

1790

chapter |2 pages

William Godwin on Swift's style

1797

chapter |3 pages

John Nichols on Swift

1801, 1828

chapter |2 pages

Swiftiana

1804

chapter |8 pages

John Aikin on Swift's poetry

1804, 1820

chapter |8 pages

57. Nathan Drake on Swift

1805

chapter |32 pages

Sir Walter Scott on Swift

1814

chapter |12 pages

Francis Jeffrey on Swift

1816

chapter |4 pages

William Hazlitt on Swift

1818

chapter |4 pages

Coleridge on Swift

1818, 1825, 1830