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Did Stella get a modest proposal? Jonathan Swift by Victoria Glendinning Hutchinson pounds 20
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Why does Jonathan Swift still resonate more than any other writer
of the first half of the 18th century? "Swiftian" is so commonly
used as a term of approbation that it barely needs an initial
capital. To be compared with the Dean is to be seen as pitiless,
wickedly funny, and spot on: also, perhaps, as fearless. It is
therefore salutary to be reminded by Victoria Glendinning in this
vigorous and perceptive biographical essay that Swift was scarcely an
idealist. Although he was capable of great courage (and on at least
one occasion risked imprisonment), his career as a writer was motored
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