AbstractsPolitical Science

Jonathan Swift, 1696 - 1717: early satires and politics

by Arthur Ronald Pennell Shield




Institution: University of Birmingham
Department: English
Year: 1939
Keywords: PR English literature
Record ID: 1496958
Full text PDF: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/5583/


Abstract

Shield commented on Jonathan Swift's Satires published in 1704 and Politics 1701-17. He concluded that the clue to these years - the formative ones in his life - was to be found not in his politics nor in his literature but in his religion.