Satire and the Correspondence of Swift

Download or read book Satire and the Correspondence of Swift written by Craig Hawkins Ulman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first secret publication, in 1740, of part of his correspondence with Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift's letters have become a standard source for his biographers and critics. Craig Ulman argues that the letters are not entirely reliable for biographical fact and have often been taken too literally. In this readable essay, Ulman surveys the satiric material in Swift's correspondence, highlighting his wit. The author views Swift's epistolary writing as very much a literary endeavor. He examines the pose and the persona and discusses the satiric methods the letters share with Swift's other published works.