Swift

Front matter

Reading edition

Jonathan Swift

The bust in St. Patrick’s Cathedral

SWIFT

CARL VAN DOREN

NEW YORK

THE VIKING PRESS

1930

PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1930

SECOND PRINTING NOVEMBER, 1930

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

CONTENTS

I POOR RELATION 3

II DEPENDENT 17

III VICAR AND WIT 48

IV MAN IN POWER 94

V DEAN AND PATRIOT 140

VI TRAVELLER 179

VII KING OF TRIFLERS 220

VIII CONJURED SPIRIT 255

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 269

INDEX 273

ILLUSTRATIONS

JONATHAN SWIFT From the bust by Patrick Cunningham in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin FRONTISPIECE

FACING PAGE

JONATHAN SWIFT as a student at Trinity College From a portrait by an unknown painter. The portrait is no longer known to exist, nor is it certainly a portrait of Swift though generally thought to be 14

ESTHER JOHNSON (Stella) From a portrait by an unknown painter, now in private hands. The date is unknown but it represents Stella as a young woman 60

JONATHAN SWIFT From a portrait by Charles Jervas, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London 122

ESTHER VANHOMRIGH (Vanessa) From a portrait by an unknown painter, now in private hands. The date is uncertain 148

ESTHER JOHNSON (Stella) From a portrait by an unknown painter, now in private hands. It seems to be of a later date than the portrait of Stella listed above 168

JONATHAN SWIFT as Dean of St. Patrick’s From a portrait by Francis Bindon, now in the Deanery House of St. Patrick’s Cathedral 226

JONATHAN SWIFT in old age From a portrait attributed to Stephen Slaughter, now in private hands 254

SWIFT