Voyage au pays des chevaux

Dr. Johnson, in his "Life of Swift, " after citing with approval Delany's character of him, as he describes him to Lord Orrery, proceeds to say: "In the poetical works there is not much upon which the critic can exercise his powers. They are often humorous, almost always light, and have the qualities which recommend such compositions, easiness and gaiety. They are, for the most part, what their author intended. The diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard laboured expression or a redundant epithet; all his verses exemplify his own definition of a good style-they consist of 'proper words in proper places.'"

The Poems of Jonathan Swift

"Tout le monde désire vivre longtemps, mais personne ne voudrait être vieux."
Swift
« Swift est un nom bien porté. C'est le bruit soyeux des skis sur la pente vertigineuse, leur dérapage contrôlé avec gerbe de neige fusant dans le virage, coiffant la galerie des badauds. C'est le satin déchiré glissant à terre, révélant le corps nu de la vérité. C'est la baudruche crevée de la Théorie régnante qui monte en zigzags, en chiffe molle, dans le ciel des idées mortes... swift... »
Éric Chevillard

Résolutions pour l'époque où je deviendrai vieux

Traduction annotée établie d'après l'édition d'Émile Pons

Voyage à Lilliput/A Voyage to Lilliput

Après un naufrage, Lemuel Gulliver se retrouve sur une île, dont les habitants ne mesurent que quelques centimètres, mais qui semble bien plus avancée que l'Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle. Mais à y regarder de plus près, la guerre est toujours là : elle oppose Lilliput et Blefuscu pour un bien étrange motif... Finalement, Lilliput ressemble étonnamment à la société anglaise de Swift ! Tiré des Voyages extraordinaires de Gulliver, ce récit à la portée critique saisissante dépasse largement l'échelle microscopique de ses personnages.

Voyage à Lilliput - Les Voyages de Gulliver

The wits of the present age being so very numerous and penetrating, it seems the grandees of Church and State begin to fall under horrible apprehensions lest these gentlemen, during the intervals of a long peace, should find leisure to pick holes in the weak sides of religion and government. To prevent which, there has been much thought employed of late upon certain projects for taking off the force and edge of those formidable inquirers from canvassing and reasoning upon such delicate points. They have at length fixed upon one, which will require some time as well as cost to perfect. Meanwhile, the danger hourly increasing, by new levies of wits, all appointed (as there is reason to fear) with pen, ink, and paper, which may at an hour's warning be drawn out into pamphlets and other offensive weapons ready for immediate execution, it was judged of absolute necessity that some present expedient be thought on till the main design can be brought to maturity. To this end, at a grand committee, some days ago, this important discovery was made by a certain curious and refined observer, that seamen have a custom when they meet a Whale to fling him out an empty Tub, by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the Ship. This parable was immediately mythologised; the Whale was interpreted to be Hobbes's "Leviathan, " which tosses and plays with all other schemes of religion and government, whereof a great many are hollow, and dry, and empty, and noisy, and wooden, and given to rotation. This is the Leviathan from whence the terrible wits of our age are said to borrow their weapons.

A Tale of a Tub

'A Tale of a Tub' was the first big work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity. Composed between 1694 and 1697, it was eventually published in 1704.'A Tale' was long regarded as a satire on religion itself, and has famously been attacked for that, starting with William Wotton. The "tale" presents a consistent satire of religious excess, while the digressions are a series of parodies of contemporary writing in literature, politics, theology, Biblical exegesis, and medicine. The overarching parody is of enthusiasm, pride, and credulity. At the time it was written, politics and religion were still linked very closely in England, and the religious and political aspects of the satire can often hardly be separated. "The work made Swift notorious, and was widely misunderstood, especially by Queen Anne herself who mistook its purpose for profanity." "It effectively disbarred its author from proper preferment within the church," but is considered one of Swift's best allegories, even by himself. It was enormously popular, but Swift believed it damaged his prospect of advancement in the Church of England.This edition has been formatted for your Kindle, with an active table of contents. It has also been illustrated and annotated, with an overview, cultural setting, background, nature of the satire, background, publication, history, authorship debate, biographical and bibliographical information.

Le conte du tonneau

Je dînerai tout seul comme un roi. Jonathan Swift

Journal de Holyhead - Suivi de Holyhead

Gulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, is Jonathan Swift's best known full-length work, and is both a parody of the "travellers' tales" popular at the time and a satire on human nature. Throughout the four stories, ship's surgeon Gulliver travels to distant lands, meets strange new peoples like the diminutive Lilliputians and the gigantic Brobdingnags, defends his ship from a pirate attack, and is marooned on a deserted island. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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