E- Texts

 

 

Jonathan Swift has written a lot of prose, in a variety of forms, which are available on Internet to everyone. Some of his works that we can read on-line are:

 

Prose works

 


Gulliver's Travels

Battle of the Books


A Tale of a Tub

Essays, tracts, pamphlets, periodicals


A meditation upon a broomstick


The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers


An Argument About Abolishing Christianity


A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue, in a Letter to the Most Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, Printed from Benjamin Tooke, at the Middle Temple Gate, Fleetstreet, 1712


Hints toward an Essay on Conversation



A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet


The Drapier's Letters


A Modern Proposal


An Essay On The Fates Of Clergymen


A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding

Poems


Baucis and Philemon


A Description of the Morning


A Description of a City Shower


Cadenus and Vanessa


Phillis, or, the Progress of Love


On Stella's Birth-day 1719


Stella's Birth-day,1720


The Progress of Beauty


The Progress of Poetry


To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair


Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers


On a Very Old Glass


A Pastoral Dialogue


The Grand Question debated Whether Hamilton's Bawn should be turned into a Barrack or a Malt House


On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet


Death And Daphne


The Place of the Damned


A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed


A Satirical Elegy


Strephon and Chloe


Helter Skelter


Cassinus and Peter: A Tragical Elegy


The Day of Judgment


Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift


An Epistle To A Lady


The Beasts' Confession to the Priest


The Puppet Show


The Logicians Refuted


The Lady's Dressing Room

Correspondence,personal writings


When I come to be old


The Journal to Stella

Sermons,Prayers


Three sermons,Three Prayers


The First He Wrote Oct. 17, 1727


The Second Prayer Was Written Nov. 6, 1727

Miscellany


Directions To Servants


Thoughts on various subjects


An Account Of The Court And Empire Of Japan

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www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/contents.html - 5k

ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/ - 18k

www.online-literature.com/swift/gulliver/ - 40k

www.online-literature.com/swift/947/ - 31k

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift - 91k