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The standard editions are
as follows:
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, edited by Herbert Davis et al.,
16 volumes, Oxford, Blackwell, 1939-68.
The Complete Poems of Jonathan Swift, edited by Pat Rogers, Harmondsworth, [Penguin], 1983. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, edited by Harold Williams, 5 volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963-72.
One of the most distinctive editions of Gulliver’s Travels currently in print is that in the
St Martin’s Press ‘Case Studies
in Contemporary Criticism’ series: the volume is edited by Professor Chris Fox and contains critical essays which approach
the text from different theoretical perspectives: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, edited
by Christopher Fox, New York, [St Martin’s Press], 1995.
The standard life is: Irvin Ehrenpreis, Swift: the man, his works and the age, 3 volumes, London, Methuen, 1962-83.
Those interested in Swift’s sources and reading should consult: Dirk F. Passmann and Heinz J.Vienken,
The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a bio-bibliographical handbook, 4 volumes, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2003.
There are many excellent critical studies on Swift
and his works: Irish readers may find the following three works of particular interest: Carole Fabricant, Swift’s Landscape, Baltimore, 1982, (revised University of Notre Dame Press, 1995).
Robert Mahony, Jonathan Swift: the Irish identity, New Haven and London,Yale University Press, 1995.
Jonathan Swift and Thomas Sheridan, The Intelligencer, edited by James Woolley, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992.