Jonathan Swift: The Brave Desponder

by Patrick Reilly

Jonathan Swift, argues Reilly, is a writer of crucial significance to the human beings of this century, a man who simultaneously looks "back to the crises of the seventeenth century and forward, with uncanny pre­science, to the problems of the twentieth."

Reilly presents Swift as a "dauntingly modern writer of the fiercest urgency, not merely relevant but indispensable to an un­derstanding of our present predicament." His approach...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809310759
• ISBN13: 9780809310753
• Release Date: September 1982
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"