...Harry Miller Solomon Gulliver and the Gentle Reader: Studies in Swift and Our Time . By Rawson C. J. . Boston and London : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1973 . Pp. v , 190 . $10.95 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 280 The South Atlantic Quarterly and speeches...

...William Henry Irving Four Essays on Gulliver’s Travels . By Case Arthur E. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1945 . Pp. 133 . $2.00 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Books 393 Four Essays on Travels. By Arthur E. Case. Princeton: Princeton University...

...C. N. Stavrou Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 C. N. Stavrou Gulliver s Voyage to the land of Dubliners In Our Friend, James Joyce by Mary and Padraic Colum, Joyce is quoted as follows on the subject of Jonathan Swift: He made a mess of two women s lives. . . . There is more...

... of, let us say, The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. For all our recognition of the fictions of some kinds of satire, its scenes, satirists, and plots,7 Gulliver s Travels will not turn into novel or drama for our convenience. Part of the current enthusiasm for the rhetoric of satire is fad­ dist...

... of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 436 The South Atlantic Quarterly only ostensibly the ground of disagreement: using the term, Elliott does not differ that significantly from Ehrenpreis, avoiding the term. We all agree that Gulliver is often fatuous or obtuse and that Swift did not collect...

... misunderstood stories written some two hundred years ago. Jonathan Swift s Gullivers Travels has been overlaid all this time with the traditional notion that it was but a morbid and ven­ omous satire against mankind evoked by personal disappointment and frustrated political ambitions. The poignancy of its irony...

..., 1965. Pp. 68. $3.00. The few virtues of this study are outweighed by its faults. Two especially illuminating discussions of specific examples of Swift s use of the Bible one from A Tale of A Tub, the other from An Answer to the Craftsman and a chapter on Gulliver s Travels whose content is excellent...

..., but comparisons almost always begin and end with Gulliver s Travels.1 What troubles most readers is that Orwell s attitude toward Swift seems so ambivalent. If Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver s Travels were Orwell s first and last word on Swift, it would be difficult to comprehend why Orwell...

.... Swift has been called strange things over the years, among them such damning names as bully (John Oldmixon, a contemporary dunce), misanthrope (Lord Orrery, Swift s first biographer), hypocrite (Louise Bogan); the novelist Thackeray advises that we hoot the Dean, referring to Gulliver/Swift...

... Gulliver s voyage to the island of Laputa and the projectors of the Academy of Lagado. The word research itself is being diluted into the same insignificance which has overtaken philosophy. (Now there is a philosophy availa­ ble for everything from stealing bases to selling shoes.) The umbrella of research...

... not be over­ looked. FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY JOHN HEBRON MOORE Gulliver and the Gentle Reader: Studies in Swift and Our Time. By C. J. Rawson. Boston and London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. Pp. v, 190. $10.95. With enlightened eclecticism Rawson generates a modern per­ spective which helps the careful...

...James A. Notopoulos Book Reviews 153 Three Hours after Marriage, The Art of Sinking, Gulliver, and the Dunciad. W. H. Irving. Shelley s Eccentricities. By Carl H. Grabo. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press; New Mexico Publications in Lan­ guage and Literature, No. 5, 1950. Pp. 84...

... to a promising beginning. Each is attractively produced and (by current standards) reasonably priced. Forthcoming titles include The Waste Land (Grover Smith), Gulliver s Travels (J. Mezciens), Canterbury Tales (Elizabeth Salter), and Don Quixote (E. C. Riley). Ed. Bloody Ground. By John F. Day. Lexington...

... of deduction or insight. There is such a prediction in Swift s Gulliver s Travels, published in 1726. Swift makes the Laputan astronomers responsible for the following: They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the centre...

... s view of poetry, F. R. Leavis on his irony, Kathleen Williams on his imagery, 572 The South Atlantic Quarterly and Irvin Ehrenpreis, Marjorie Nicolson, and Nora M. Mohler on various aspects of Gulliver s Travels. Swift s relationship to the Gaelic tradition is considered in two pieces by Vivian...

... is distressingly skimpy, scholars will not be able to use the information in these volumes conveniently. Consequently, the most important contribution of the work will be to remind historians that periodical literature should not be over­ looked. FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY JOHN HEBRON MOORE Gulliver and the Gentle...

... of Swift s patterns of openness and enclosure or of circles and spirals almost insists that one recall those excellent mathematicians in Gulliver who chose to describe feminine beauty solely in geometric terms. And when shown that one of the wittiest bumblings of the author of A Tale of a Tub is Swift s...

...; Bach, His Life and Works; The History of Domestic Architecture and Decoration; The Authorized Version of the Bible; The New Testament and Erasmus's Colloquies in Latin; Rabelais in English; Shakespeare; The Oxford English Dictionary; The Analects of Confucius; The His­ tory of the Alphabet; Gulliver s...

...; Rabelais in English; Shakespeare; The Oxford English Dictionary; The Analects of Confucius; The His­ tory of the Alphabet; Gulliver s Travels; The Odyssey; The Works of Diirer and Rembrandt. An illuminating case is made for each selection. From these books the students will be studying in their liveliest...

... as Den- Mr. Landa s contributions to eighteenth-century scholarship include Swift and the Church of Ireland (1954) and editions of Gulliver s Travels, Swiffs sermons, and A Journal of the Plague Year. From 1942 until 1954, he was one of the editors of the annual eighteenth-century bibliography appearing...