Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin; in a series of letters from John Earl of Orrery to his son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle

by Earl John Boyle of Orrery

Series: Swiftiana

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A best-seller in its day and written by someone who knew Swift personally, Lord Orrery's Remarks on Swift (1751) was the earliest biographical account of Jonathan Swift and the major influence in shaping the nineteenth-century critical views about him. This edition offers, for the first time, a text of the Remarks on Swift that is the result of careful textual collation of copies of all editions. with the definition of the best text as the copy-text. Also offered is Orrery's complete manuscript notes about Swift in all his fully annotated copies of the Remarks.… (more)

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A best-seller in its day and written by someone who knew Swift personally, Lord Orrery's Remarks on Swift (1751) was the earliest biographical account of Jonathan Swift and the major influence in shaping the nineteenth-century critical views about him. This edition offers, for the first time, a text of the Remarks on Swift that is the result of careful textual collation of copies of all editions. with the definition of the best text as the copy-text. Also offered is Orrery's complete manuscript notes about Swift in all his fully annotated copies of the Remarks.

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