THE ATHENAEUMThe Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume 1Jonathan Swift
Poetry
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume 1
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textSwift wrote verse all his life, most of it in short, plain, rhyming lines, from riddles and squibs for his friends to poems for Stella’s birthdays. He even wrote, in 1731, the Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, imagining his friends and enemies hearing the news and what each of them would say. This is the first of the two volumes of William Ernst Browning’s edition.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 6 hr 15 min
- Where to find it
- Lilliput
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #14353. In the public domain in the United States.