Index
Reading edition
Abingdon, Earl of, 128
Acheson, Sir Arthur, 225, 226
Acheson, Lady, 225, 226
Addison, Joseph, 48-49, 84, 85, 88, 89, 92-93, 96, 98, 99, 100, 109, 123, 124, 135, 145, 200
Agher, 58, 67
Ancients and moderns, 38-40
Anne, Queen, 82, 85, 97, 98, 104, 105, 108, 114, 116, 119, 120, 130, 131, 137, 139, 188
Arbuthnot, John, 127, 132, 135, 136, 138, 144, 169, 185, 199, 200, 201, 205, 210, 211, 212, 222, 223, 251, 252, 254
Argyll, Duke of, 220
Armagh, Archbishop of. See Boulter, Hugh
Arran, Earl of, 116, 132
Ashe, St. George (Bishop of Clogher), 124, 181
Bach, 39
Bacon, Lord, 226
Balliol College, 22
Balnibarbi, 191
Barber, Mary, 237
Bath, Earl of, 200, 202, 224
Bathurst, Lord (Allen Bathurst), 132, 133, 200, 203, 230
Battle of the Books, The, 40-41
Baucis and Philemon, 92
Beef-Steak Club, 131
Beggar’s Opera, The, 213, 220, 221, 222
Berkeley, Countess of, 89
Berkeley, Earl of, 50, 58, 67, 68, 69, 82, 90
Bickerstaff, Isaac (pseudonym), 89
Blefuscu, 178, 187, 188
Blenheim, Battle of, 92
Bolingbroke, Viscount, 95, 99, 101, 102, 104-105, 107, 108-110, 115-116, 118, 119, 120, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 137, 138, 140, 142, 144, 145, 169, 181, 182, 200, 203, 205, 215, 222, 223, 227, 233, 252, 260
Bolingbroke, Viscountess, 143
Boulter, Hugh (Primate of Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh), 241
Brobdingnag, 186, 188-189
Brothers, Society of, 131-135, 200, 237
Brown, Tom, 186
Bunyan, 211
Cadenus (pseudonym), 152-167, 246
Carmarthen, Lady (daughter of Robert Harley), 124
Carteret, Lady, 176
Carteret, Lord, 173, 176, 188
Castle-Durrow, Lord, 238, 239
Cato, 123
Cervantes, 221
Charles I, 6
Charles II, 6, 19
Charles XII, 179
Chesterfield, Lord, 200
Chetwoode, Knightley, 180
Clogher, Bishop of. See Ashe, St. George
Cobham, Lord, 203
Congreve, William, 9, 28, 48, 89, 133, 200, 203
Cope, Robert, 181
Country of Horses, 190, 193
Cowley, Abraham, 25, 26
Curll, Edmund, 252
Cyrano de Bergerac, 186
d’Ablancourt, Perrot, 186
Davenant, Henry Molins, 116
Davenant, Sir William, 6
Delaney, Patrick, 180, 237
Descartes, 38
Dingley, Rebecca, 58-59, 91, 123, 126, 129, 168, 205, 206, 207
Drapier, M. B. (pseudonym), 173-177, 227
Dromore, Bishop of (John Stearne), 181
Dryden, Sir Erasmus, 6
Dryden, John, 26, 38, 41, 48
Dublin, Archbishop of. See King, William
Dunciad, The, 221, 222
Dunkin, William, 237
Dupplin, Viscount (son-in-law of Robert Harley), 97, 132, 133, 135
Eglinton, Earl of, 6
Evans, John (Bishop of Meath), 141
Examiner, The, 99, 102, 128
Faulkner, George, 237, 243
Feilding, Robert, 6
Fiddes, Richard, 116
First Fruits, 80-81, 85, 87, 94, 97, 98, 141
Flying Island, 190
Ford, Charles, 180, 181, 182, 237
Fountaine, Sir Andrew, 90, 91, 124
Gay, John, 136, 138, 145, 197, 201, 203, 204, 205, 211, 213, 220, 221, 222, 223, 233, 237, 250, 251, 252, 254
George I, 120, 142, 172, 174, 213
George II, 213, 249
Giffard, Lady, 22-23, 36, 114, 239
Glubbdubdribb, 190, 191
Godolphin, Earl of, 80, 85, 94, 95, 98, 103, 104
Grand Alliance, 103, 108
Granville, Lord (George Granville), 132, 133
Grattan, the brothers, 180
Grattan, James, 267
Grattan, John, 267
Grattan, Robert, 267
Grierson, Mrs. George, 237
Gulliver’s Travels, 3, 37, 178, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186-196, 204, 211-212, 213, 221, 222, 243, 259
Gwynne, Francis, 116
Halifax, Earl of, 48, 69, 73, 74, 76, 82, 83, 84, 85, 95, 96, 200
Hanover, Elector of. See George I
Harcourt, Lord (Sir Simon Harcourt), 98, 102, 130, 132, 200
Harley, Robert. See Oxford, Earl of
Harrison, William, 134
Hart Hall, 27
Harvey, George, 38
Helsham, Richard, 237
Henry VIII, 187
Hertford College (Hart Hall), 27
Hill, Abigail. See Masham, Lady
Hobbes, 38
Homer, 117, 138, 201
Howard, Henrietta, 200, 203
Houyhnhnms, 190, 191, 193-196, 230
Hunter, Robert, 93, 119
Intelligencer, The, 224, 225
Jackson, John, 267
Jervas, Charles, 122
Johnson, Bridget (mother of Stella), 23, 36, 58, 126
Johnson, Edward (father of Stella), 23
Johnson, Esther (Hester), 23-24, 29, 35, 36, 47, 57, 58-66, 74, 79, 91, 93, 94, 96, 97, 99, 102, 109, 117, 123, 125, 126, 129, 130, 131, 147, 148, 149, 158, 162, 163, 166, 168, 196, 205-210, 212, 213, 214-219, 220, 224, 231, 237, 246, 248, 266
Jones, Betty, 17, 18
Kendal, Duchess of, 172, 174
Kerry, Lady, 126
Kevin Bail, 241, 244
Kilkenny School, 8, 9, 96, 183
Kilroot, 30, 32, 33, 35, 40, 50, 53
King, William (Archbishop of Dublin), 79, 80, 82, 101, 108
Kit-Cat Club, 91, 131
Lagado, Academy of, 190
Laputa, 190-191
Laracor, 50, 58, 59, 66, 67, 72, 79, 80, 94, 117, 118, 125, 140, 141, 180, 183, 266, 267
La Rochefoucauld, 250, 251
Leicester, 5, 8, 16, 17, 29
Lewis, Erasmus, 96, 99
Lilliput, 178, 186-188, 189, 190, 238
Llandaff, Earls of, 181
Long, Anne, 91
Lucian, 186
Ludlow, Peter, 180
Luggnagg, 191
Marlborough, Duchess of, 103, 104, 114, 211
Marlborough, Duke of, 80, 92, 102, 103, 104, 105, 114, 120
Marsh, Narcissus (Primate of Ireland), 79
Martin (Martinus) Scriblerus, 136, 137, 181, 183, 192, 201
Mary, Queen, 19
Masham, Lady (Abigail Hill), 104, 110, 120, 127, 169
Masham, Lord (Samuel Masham), 132, 133, 135
Meath, Bishop of (John Evans), 141
Milton, 39, 226
Molière, 39
Montague, Charles. See Halifax, Earl of
Moor Park, 19, 22, 27, 29, 32, 35, 40, 44, 58, 66, 69, 79, 183, 241, 258, 260
Newton, Sir Isaac, 38, 85
Nottingham, Earl of, 131, 187
Orford, Earl of, 69
Ormond, Duchess of, 143, 169
Ormond, Duke of, 67, 79, 82, 95, 105, 116, 117, 119, 132, 142, 200
Ormond family, 7, 8
Ormond, Marchioness of, 6
Oxford, 1st Earl of (Robert Harley), 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101-102, 103-105, 107-110, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 124, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 142, 143, 169, 178, 187, 198, 200, 202, 212, 243, 246, 260
Oxford, 2d Earl of (son of Robert Harley), 97, 132, 143, 145, 177, 198, 200, 236
Oxford, University of, 22, 25, 27, 32, 48
Parnell, Thomas, 134, 136, 138, 200
Partridge, John, 89
Patrick (Swift’s servant), 125, 126, 129
Patriots, The, 202, 224
Pembroke, Earl of, 67, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 90
Penn, William, 97
Peterborough, Earl of, 98, 110, 117, 130, 200, 212
Philips, Ambrose, 93
Philostratus, 186
Pilkington, Letitia, 237, 239
Pilkington, Matthew, 237
Pope, Alexander, 37, 117, 135, 137, 141, 143, 144, 169, 170, 182, 198, 200, 201, 203, 204, 205, 209, 210, 211, 213, 216, 221, 222, 223, 224, 226, 233, 237, 240, 243, 251, 252, 254
Pope, Edith (mother of Alexander Pope), 203
Portland, Earl of, 28, 69
Pratt, Mrs. John, 126
Pretender, the (James Stuart), 107, 120, 142, 187
Primate of Ireland. See Marsh, Narcissus, and Boulter, Hugh
Prior, Matthew, 98, 126, 132, 135, 200
Pug (Stella’s dog), 91
Pulteney, William. See Bath, Earl of
Queensberry, Duchess of, 223
Rabelais, 186, 221
Rathbeggan, 58, 67
Raymond, Sir Robert, 132
Rembrandt, 39
Rivers, Earl, 102, 130
Rochfort, George, 180
Romney, Earl of, 49
St. Francis, 29
St. James’s coffee house, 67, 78, 90, 97
St. John, Henry. See Bolingbroke, Viscount
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 50, 57, 67, 79, 119, 141, 142, 162, 213, 218, 220, 232, 241, 244, 263, 264, 267
St. Patrick’s, Liberty of, 177, 232, 240, 241
Sacramental Test, 85, 101
Salisbury, bishop of (Gilbert Burnet), 73
Scriblerus Club, 136-138, 182, 183, 192, 200, 201, 237
Shandy, Tristram, 136
Shelburne, Lord, 127, 131
Sheridan, Thomas, 180, 182, 202, 208, 214, 216, 224, 225, 237
Sican, Mrs. E., 237
Somers, Lord, 48, 68, 69, 73, 74, 76, 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 90, 95, 200
Somerset, Duchess of, 114, 119
South, Robert, 84
Southwell, Sir Robert, 21, 22
Spectator, The, 92
Steele, Sir Richard, 89, 92, 93, 97, 99, 100, 200
Stella. See Johnson, Esther (Hester)
Sterne, Laurence, 136
Stratford, Francis, 9, 10, 96
Sunderland, 2d Earl of, 49, 73
Sunderland, 3d Earl of, 80, 85, 94, 95, 103
Swift, Abigail Erick (mother of Jonathan Swift), 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 17
Swift, Abraham, 5
Swift, Adam, 5, 51
Swift, Barnam, 6
Swift, Dryden, 5
Swift, Godwin, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 15
Swift, Jonathan (father of Jonathan Swift), 5
Swift, Jonathan (30 November 1667-19 October 1745):
ancestry, 5;
family connections, 5-7;
born in Dublin a posthumous child, 6;
taken to England in infancy for almost three years, 7;
dependent on Godwin Swift, 7-15;
at Kilkenny School from six to fourteen, 8-9;
associates at school, 9;
at Trinity College, Dublin, 1682 to 1689, 9-11;
bachelor’s degree 1686, 10;
discontent at Trinity, 10-15;
reading, 11;
academic irregularities, 12-13;
health, 15-16;
leaves Ireland for his mother’s lodgings in Leicester at the Revolution, 16;
flirtations in Leicester, 17-18;
joins household of Sir William Temple as secretary near end of 1689, 18;
relations with Temple, 18-22;
position as dependent, 21-22;
returns to Ireland in summer of 1690 for year, 22;
visits Oxford in 1691, 22;
relations with other members of Temple household, 22-24;
with Esther Johnson (Stella), 23-24;
writes poetry in the Pindaric fashion, 25-27;
renounces it, 26-27;
Occasioned by Sir William Temple’s Late Illness and Recovery (1693), 26;
master’s degree from Hart Hall (Hertford College), Oxford, July 1692, 27;
sent by Temple on errand to William III, spring 1693, 28;
becomes conscious of misanthropy, 28-29;
To Mr. Congreve (1693), 28-29;
walking, 30;
desire for independence, 30;
to Ireland May 1694, 30;
ordained deacon October 1694,
priest January 1695, 30;
prebendary of Kilroot 1695-1696, 30-35;
attitude towards the Church, 31-32;
discontent at Kilroot, 32;
flirtation with Jane Waring, 32-35;
returns to Temple late in 1696, 35;
improved position at Moor Park, 35;
Swift’s aims in writing, 36-37;
is drawn by Temple into the controversy over the ancients and the moderns, 38-40;
writes The Battle of the Books and A Tale of a Tub, 40-44;
attitude towards mankind established by thirty, 45;
leaves Moor Park on Temple’s death January 1699, 46;
resolutions When I Come to Be Old, 46-47;
goes to London but fails to find preferment at Court, 49-50;
to Ireland June 1699 as chaplain to the Earl of Berkeley, 50;
vicar of Laracor February 1700, 50;
prebendary of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 50;
doctor of divinity of Trinity College, February 1701, 50;
ends flirtation with Jane Waring, 50-54;
attitude towards marriage, 54-57;
loneliness at Laracor, 58;
returns to England for April-September 1701, 58;
persuades Stella and Rebecca Dingley to settle in Ireland in 1701, 58-59;
relations with Stella in Ireland, 59-66;
Swift is willing for her to marry William Tisdall, April 1704, 60-63;
verses exchanged between Swift and Stella (1720-1721), 64-66;
Swift’s life in Ireland 1700-1710, 66-67;
chaplain to Ormond and Pembroke, 67;
publishes letters, essays, and memoirs of Temple (1701-1709), 67;
Swift among the wits in London, 67-68;
Discourse on the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome (1701), 68-72;
thereby commends himself to the leading Whigs, 72-74;
in England the winter of 1703-1704, 74-75;
publishes A Tale of a Tub (1704), 75;
reception of the book, 75-77;
rouses suspicion of his orthodoxy, 77;
Swift at the St. James’s coffee house, 78;
in Ireland from 1704 to 1707, 78-79;
in England November 1707-June 1709, 80-93;
lobbyist for the First Fruits
for the Irish Church, 80-81;
hates the Earl of Wharton, 81;
fails to obtain promotion in the Church, 81-83;
relations with the Earl of Halifax, 83-85;
with other Whigs, 85;
A Letter ... Concerning the Sacramental Test (1708), 85-86;
displeases the Whigs, 86;
Sentiments of a Church of England Man (1708), Project for the Advancement of Religion (1708), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1708), 86-88;
wins hearing from the coffee houses by his hoaxes on Partridge, 89-90;
Meditation on a Broomstick, 89-90;
life and associates in England during 1707-1709, 90-91;
meets the Vanhomrighs, 90-91;
Stella in London, 91;
Swift’s relations with Addison and Steele, 92-93;
revises Baucis and Philemon, 92-93;
returns to Ireland and hardly leaves Laracor from June 1709 to September 1710, 93-94;
goes to London on the fall of the Whigs, 94;
looks towards the Tories, 96;
is won over to the Tory side by Harley, 96-100;
The Examiner (1710-1711), 100;
is estranged from Addison, 100;
Swift’s Toryism, 100-101;
his relations with Harley (afterwards the Earl of Oxford) and St. John (afterwards Viscount Bolingbroke), 101-102;
his polemic against Marlborough, 105-106;
against the Whigs, 106-108;
his love for his associates, 108-110;
his hate for his enemies, 111-114;
A Short Character of Thomas Earl of Wharton (1710), 111-114;
lampoons the Duchess of Somerset in The Windsor Prophecy, 114;
Swift’s defects as a politician, 114-116;
master of requests, 116-117;
made Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, April 1713, 118-119;
summer of 1713 in Ireland, 119;
back for winter of 1713-1714 in England, 119-120;
farewell to Oxford, 120-121;
portrait painted by Charles Jervas, September 1710, 121-122;
Journal to Stella (2 September 1710-6 June 1713), 123-124;
a typical day as revealed in the Journal, 125-129;
weekly dinners with Bolingbroke, 129-130;
with Oxford, 130-131;
with the Society of Brothers, 131-135;
the Scriblerus Club organized early in 1714, 136;
Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, 136-137;
Swift’s relations with Arbuthnot, Pope, Gay, Parnell, 137-138;
returns to Ireland, September 1714, not to leave it for twelve years, 139;
lives in morose retirement for five or six years, 140-146;
offers to join Oxford in the Tower of London, 1715, 143;
letters between Swift and his Scriblerus friends, 143-146;
A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet (1721), 146;
A Letter to a Young Clergyman (published 1721 but written 1720), 146;
A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture (1720), 146-147;
printer of the Proposal prosecuted, 147;
relations with Esther Vanhomrigh (Vanessa), 147-167;
meets her in 1708 in London, 147;
undertakes to educate her, 147;
a friend of the Vanhomrigh family, 149-150;
letters between Swift and Vanessa during his visit to Ireland in 1713, 150-152;
Cadenus and Vanessa (apparently written 1713-1714, published 1726), 152-158;
Vanessa follows Swift to Ireland 1714, 160;
her pursuit and his discretion, 160-163;
Swift proposes a sequel to Cadenus and Vanessa, 164-165;
visits Vanessa at Celbridge in 1720, 165;
break between them, after August 1722, 166-167;
her death, June 1723, 166-167;
Swift leaves for the south of Ireland the next day, 168;
returns in September and resumes relationship with Stella, 168-169;
Stella at Wood Park, 168-169;
renews correspondence with English friends, 169;
hatred of Ireland, 169-171;
nevertheless becomes a champion of Irish freedom against the Whigs in England, 171-172;
Wood’s copper coins, 172-173;
the Drapier letters (1724), 173-176;
Swift becomes the idol of Ireland, 176-178;
travels in Ireland, 180-181;
writing Gulliver’s Travels (1721-1725), 181-182;
Gulliver one of Swift’s rôles, 183-184;
his misanthropy matured, 184-185;
his ingenuity in the Travels, 186;
Lilliput, 186-188;
Brobdingnag, 188-189;
Laputa, 190-191;
Houyhnhnms and Yahoos, 191-195;
thinks of returning to England, 197-199;
plans to write life of Oxford, 198;
spends summer of 1726 in England, 199-210;
disagrees with Walpole about the government of Ireland, 201-202;
happy with Arbuthnot, Bolingbroke, Pope, and Gay, 202-203;
with Pope and Gay at Twickenham, 203-205;
Stella’s illness, 205-210;
Swift’s letters about her to his Irish friends, 205-209;
returns to Ireland in August, 209-210;
received in Ireland like a Lord Lieutenant, 210;
publishes Gulliver’s Travels (28 October 1726), 211;
immediate success, 211-212;
again in England for the summer of 1727, 212-213;
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (3 vols., 1727), 213;
plans to go to France, 213;
writes to French translator of Gulliver, 213;
disappointed on the accession of George II, 213;
returns to Ireland in September, 215-216;
Stella’s last months and death (January 1728), 216-219;
On the Death of Mrs. Johnson (begun the night of her death, published after his death), 217-219;
Swift defends The Beggar’s Opera (1728), 220-221;
pleased with Pope’s lines on Swift in The Dunciad (1729), 221-222;
continues his correspondence with his English friends but gets out of touch with England, 222-224;
diversions in Ireland, 224-226;
three visits to Sir Arthur Acheson during 1728-1730, 225-226;
given the freedom of the City of Dublin in 1730, 227;
A Modest Proposal (1729), 227-230;
increasing solitariness, 231-232;
walking and riding, 232-234;
eccentricity and eminence, 233-236;
Dublin associates, 236-240;
king in a nutshell, 240-241;
Swift’s later literary activity, 242-244;
The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen (posthumous), 243;
Miscellanies (1732), 243;
The Works of J. S. (4 vols., 1735), 243;
A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (published 1738 but written before over a long interval), 244;
Directions to Servants (posthumous), 244;
experiments and parodies in verse, 244-246;
The Lady’s Dressing Room, A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed, Strephon and Chloe, Cassinus and Peter (published 1732, 1734, but written during 1730-1731), 246-248;
On Poetry--A Rhapsody (published 1733), 248-249;
The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift (1733), Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift (1739), 250-254;
Swift’s rôle of conjured spirit, 255-257;
his misjudgment of his gifts, 257-261;
his sufferings after 1740, 261-265;
his last written words (1742), 263;
guardians assigned him in the Court of Chancery in March 1742, 264;
found by a commission to be of unsound mind and memory in August, 264;
climax of his malady, September-October, 264-265;
paralysis and apathy until his death, 265-266;
death, 266;
provisions and jests of his will, 266-267;
epitaph, 267-268
Swift, Thomas, vicar of Goodrich, 5, 6
Swift, Thomas, son of the vicar of Goodrich, 6
Swift, Thomas, grandson of the vicar of Goodrich, 9, 10, 12, 22, 25
Swift, William, 5, 13
Tale of a Tub, A, 40, 43-45, 75-78, 97, 98, 114, 137, 241
Tatler, The, 89, 90, 92, 97, 128
Temple, Sir John (father of Sir William Temple), 18
Temple, John (nephew of Sir William Temple), 79
Temple, Lady (Dorothy Osborne), 23, 35
Temple, Sir William, 18-22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 49, 58, 66, 67, 93, 114, 239, 241, 259
Timon, 185
Tisdall, William, 60-63, 78
Tonson, Jacob, 48
Trinity College, Dublin, 9-13, 22, 27, 30, 32, 50, 54, 83, 96, 183, 237
Twickenham, 201, 203, 204, 205, 208, 212, 213, 237
Utrecht, Treaty of, 118
Vanessa. See Vanhomrigh, Esther (Hester)
Vanhomrigh, Esther (Hester), 3, 15, 56, 91, 147-167, 168, 181, 182, 191, 246
Vanhomrigh, Mrs. Hester (mother of Vanessa), 90, 147, 149, 150, 160
Vanhomrigh, Mary (sister of Vanessa), 160, 165
Varina. See Waring, Jane
Velasquez, 39
Virgil, 40
Voltaire, 213
Wales, Prince of (George II), 200, 201, 203, 213
Wales, Princess of (Queen Caroline), 200, 211, 213, 252
Walpole, Sir Robert, 172, 173, 176, 186, 200, 201, 212, 213, 220, 222, 223, 240, 241, 249, 253, 264
Waring, Jane, 32-35, 50-54, 56, 57, 63
Wharton, Earl of, 81, 82, 85, 86, 93, 94, 95, 111-113, 114, 200
Whitshed, William (Lord Chief Justice), 147
William III (Prince of Orange), 19, 28, 30, 48, 49, 68, 69, 73, 103
William, Prince (son of George II), 201
Will’s coffee house, 67
Wood, William, 172, 173, 174, 176, 177
Worrall, John, 267
Wycherley, William, 213
Wyndham, Sir William, 132, 202
Yahoos, 193-196, 230
York, Archbishop of (John Sharp), 114, 118