Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
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Apparently doomed to an obscure Anglican parsonage in Laracor, Ireland, even after he had written his anonymous masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub (c.1696), Swift turned a political mission to England from the Irish Protestant clergy into an avenue to prominence as the chief propagandist for the Tory mostra altro government. His exhilaration at achieving importance in his forties appears engagingly in his Journal to Stella (1710--13), addressed to Esther Johnson, a young protegee for whom Swift felt more warmth than for anyone else in his long life. At the death of Queen Anne and the fall of the Tories in 1714, Swift became dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. In Ireland, which he considered exile from a life of power and intellectual activity in London, Swift found time to defend his oppressed compatriots, sometimes in such contraband essays as his Drapier's Letters (1724), and sometimes in such short mordant pieces as the famous A Modest Proposal (1729); and there he wrote perhaps the greatest work of his time, Gulliver's Travels (1726). Using his characteristic device of the persona (a developed and sometimes satirized narrator, such as the anonymous hack writer of A Tale of a Tub or Isaac Bickerstaff in Predictions for the Ensuing Year, who exposes an astrologer), Swift created the hero Gulliver, who in the first instance stands for the bluff, decent, average Englishman and in the second, humanity in general. Gulliver is a full and powerful vision of a human being in a world in which violent passions, intellectual pride, and external chaos can degrade him or her---to animalism, in Swift's most horrifying images---but in which humans do have scope to act, guided by the Classical-Christian tradition. Gulliver's Travels has been an immensely successful children's book (although Swift did not care much for children), so widely popular through the world for its imagination, wit, fun, freshness, vigor, and narrative skill that its hero is in many languages a common proper noun. Perhaps as a consequence, its meaning has been the subject of continuing dispute, and its author has been called everything from sentimental to mad. Swift died in Dublin and was buried next to his beloved "Stella." (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Please be careful not to mistakenly combine full versions and abridged versions of Jonathan Swift's works.
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The Adventure Collection: Treasure Island / The Jungle Book / Gulliver's Travels / White Fang / The Merry Adventures of… (2012) 61 copie
A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, and Other Satires. Everyman's Library No. 347. (1909) 55 copie
Gulliver's Travels: and Alexander Pope's Verses on Gulliver's Travels (Vintage Classics) (2009) 38 copie
Gulliver's Travels: A Story about the Value of Peace [abridged - Chick-fil-A] (2004) — Original Story — 30 copie
Gulliver's Travels [Pagemaster Classic Series - Adapted by Andrew Borkowski] (1994) — Original Author — 30 copie
Tynnyritarina, sekä Kirjojen taistelu ja Kirjoitelma hengen mekaanisesta toiminnasta (1970) 27 copie
Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World (Hallmark Children's Classics) (2001) 26 copie
Gulliver's Travels: A Tale of a Tub / Battle of the Books, Etc. (Oxford Standard Edition) (1933) 24 copie
Grolier Classics: Gulliver's Travels, Autobiography of Cellini, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Aeneid (1956) 16 copie
Gulliver's travels. Part III : A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan (1998) 11 copie
Gulliver's Travels, an account of the Four Voyages in Several Remote Nations of the World, Junior Heritage… (1940) 11 copie
Reading & Training : Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's travels [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 10 copie
Poems 9 copie
Jonathan Swift Collection: Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, The Battle of the Books, A Tale of a Tub, The History… (2020) 9 copie
English Political Writings 1711-1714: 'The Conduct of the Allies' and Other Works (The Cambridge Edition of… (2008) 7 copie
A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, in Three Dialogues (For Her Own Good: A Series of Conduct… (1996) 6 copie
Miscellanies 6 copie
Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works (The Cambridge Edition of… (2013) 6 copie
A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT BY DR. LEMUEL GULLIVER. and A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG MADE BY LEMUEL GULLIVER (1950) 5 copie
Works of Jonathan Swift. (200 Works) Incl. Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of… (2008) 5 copie
Respektlose Schriften 5 copie
Gulliver's Travels: 3100 Headwords: Further Voyages (Oxford Progressive English Readers) (1995) 5 copie
Selected essays ... Decorated with engravings on wood by Jon Farleigh. Edited by R. Ellis Roberts 4 copie
Gullivers Reisen. Münchhausen. Das Gespenst von Canterbury. Drei Geschichten in einem Band (1997) 4 copie
Een bescheiden voorstel om te voorkomen dat kinderen van arme mensen in Ierland hun ouders of vaderland tot last zijn,… (1996) 4 copie
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, ARRANGED IN THREE PARTS FROM THE ORIGINAL OF JONATHAN… (1930) 4 copie
Irish Political Writings after 1725: A Modest Proposal and Other Works (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan… (2018) 4 copie
מסעי גוליבר 3 copie
Călătoriile lui Gulliver 3 copie
Bekjennelser : Bok 1-10 3 copie
Complete Works of Jonathan Swift 3 copie
Gulliver bei den Riesen 3 copie
Opere 3 copie
Gulliver Travels Part 2 - into Several Remote Nations of the World : Complete and Unabridged with Extensive Notes (2013) 3 copie
A Discourse Of The Contests And Dissensions Between The Nobles And The Commons In Athens And Rome,: With The… (1967) 3 copie
Biblioteca Basica Salvat libro RTV numero 012:Viajes de gulliver (numerado 1 en interior cubierta) (1969) 3 copie
Gullivers Reisen. Alle Bände 3 copie
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church - Volume 1 (2012) 3 copie
Swift's humoristische Werke : Vollständig in drei Bänden Erster Band Vermischte prosaische Schriften 3 copie
Gullivers Reisen: Überarbeitete Altfassung (Klassiker bei Null Papier) (German Edition) (2013) 3 copie
I viaggi di Gulliver. Vol. II 3 copie
JONATHAN SWIFT 3 copie
Il decano e Vanessa 3 copie
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish (2006) 2 copie
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The… (2012) 2 copie
Gulliver's travels 2 copie
SELECTED POEMS OF JONATHAN SWIFT 2 copie
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church - Volume 2 (2012) 2 copie
Gullivers rejser, andet bind 2 copie
LOS VIAJES DE GULLIVER 2 copie
A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue; in a Letter To the Most Honorable Robert,… (1953) 2 copie
THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT Blacks Readers Service Hardcover 1932 [Hardcover] Jonathan Swift 2 copie
The Poems of Jonathan Swift 2 copie
Una modesta proposició 2 copie
Four Notable Works by Jonathan Swift (Complete and Unabridged), Including: Gulliver's Travels, a Modest Proposal, a… (2013) 2 copie
Viatge a Laputa 2 copie
Dilbert Bunch 2 copie
La cuestion de Irlanda: (seleccion de articulos sobre Irlanda) = Irish tracts (Erasmo) (1982) 2 copie
When I Come to be Old 2 copie
Jonathan Swift's Word-book : a vocabulary compiled for Esther Johnson and copied in her own hand (2017) 2 copie
Podróże Guliwera 2 copie
Gullivers Travels, and selected writings in prose & verse / Swift ; edited by John Hayward (1939) 2 copie
Gulliver az óriások között 2 copie
Poetry and prose 2 copie
Cuentos de la selva por Napoleon Bonaparte, Savile y otros cuentos / Jungle Tales of Napoleon Bonaparte, Savile and… (2006) 2 copie
La cuestion de Irlanda: (seleccion de articulos sobre Irlanda) = Irish tracts (Erasmo) (1982) 2 copie
Ein bescheidener Vorschlag, wie man verhindern kann, daß die Kinder der Armen ihren Eltern oder dem Lande zur Last… (1975) 2 copie
Miscellanies. 2 copie
Selections from the Journal to Stella,: A tale of a tub, Personal letters and Gulliver's travels, (Little… (1901) 2 copie
Miscellanies. "the last volume." 2 copie
Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World: a New Edition, Edited for Young Readers (1894) 2 copie
GULIVER'S TRAVELS 2 copie
Swift's Polite Conversation 2 copie
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS by Jonathan Swift. Illustrated by Don Irwin. Educator Classic Library Young Adult Illustrated and… (1970) 1 copia
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical Volume 1 (2015) 1 copia
HI Iviaggi di Gulliver 1 copia
Gulliver's Travels Etc. 1 copia
LOS VIAJES DE GULLIVER 1 copia
gulliver travels in lilliput 1 copia
Pensamentos 1 copia
Gulliver du ký 1 copia
Los viajes de Gulliver 1 copia
Gulliver du k©ư 1 copia
LOS VIAJES DE GULLIVER II 1 copia
Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World By Lemuel Gulliver, First A Surgeon And Then A Captain Of Several… (2017) 1 copia
Gullivers Travels. 1 copia
Gullivers Reisen : Eine Auswahl. 1 copia
GULLIVERER BHRAMAN KATHA 1 copia
Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world, (Immortal masterpieces of literature [vol. 10]) (1937) 1 copia
גוליבר : מסעיו ועלילותיו 1 copia
Gulliver's Travels [Puffin Classics] — Autore — 1 copia
The Story Of Gulliver's Travels 1 copia
Viagens de Gulliver - vol. 32 1 copia
LOS VIAJES DE GULLIVER I 1 copia
Le conte du tonneau. Contenant tout ce que les arts et les sciences ont de plus sublime et de plus mystérieux.… (1911) 1 copia
Poetical Works 1 copia
Gullivers Reisen 1 copia
A Tale of a Tub 1 copia
Gulliver's Stories 1 copia
GULLIVER CUCELER ULKESINDE 1 copia
The Golden Story Book 1 copia
Los viajes de Gulliver 1 copia
Los Viajes De Gulliver 1 copia
LOS VIAJES DE GULLIVER 1 copia
Justifying Age Discrimination 1 copia
The viking Portable Swift 1 copia
Udhëtimet e Guliverit 1 copia
By Jonathan Swift - Writings of Jonathan Swift (Norton Critical Edition): 1st (first) Edition 1 copia
Los viajes de Gulliver 1 copia
Gulliver bei den Zwergen 1 copia
Letters to and from Dr. J Swift 1 copia
Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world. By: Jonathan Swift and ill. Arthur Rackham (2017) 1 copia
Τα ταξίδια του Γκιούλιβερ 1 copia
Los Viajes de Gulliver 1 copia
Los viajes de Gulliver 1 copia
Los Viajes De Gulliver/ Gulliver's Journey (Clasicos Para La Juventud / Youth Classics) (Spanish Edition) (2006) 1 copia
Gulliver's Bird Book 1 copia
ГУЛЛИВЕР В СТРАНЕ ЛИЛИПУТОВ. GULLIVER V STRANE LILIPUTOV. GULLIVER IN THE LILIPUTIAN LAND. (2020) 1 copia
The Works of Jonathan Swift 1 copia
Swift's Gulliver's Travels 1 copia
Preceitos 1 copia
Gulliver's Travels 1 copia
Letters written by the late Jonathan Swift, and several of his friends from the year 1703 to 1740 1 copia
The Adventure Collection 1 copia
Szatírák és röpiratok 1 copia
Human Ordure, Botanically Considered. The First Essay, of the Kind, Ever Published in the World. By Dean Swift (2018) 1 copia
Gulliver's Travel 1 copia
Gulliver's Travels 1 copia
GULLIVER`IN GEZILERI 1 copia
The conduct of the allies and of the late ministry, in beginning and carrying on the present war 1 copia
Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 1 copia
Shorter Prose Works 1 copia
Swift's select works 1 copia
FÁBULAS ENCANTADAS 1 copia
Scritti satirici e polemici 1 copia
La favola della botte 1 copia
Culliver's Travels 1 copia
Gulliver Ressuscite, Parts 1-2: Ou Les Voyages, Campagnes Et Aventures Extraordinaires (1787) (French Edition) (2009) 1 copia
গালিভারের ভ্রমণকথা 1 copia
A Modest Proposal and Other Works by Jonathan Swift (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) 1 copia
Gulliver`s Travels 1 copia
Wonder Serie - Gullivers Reizen 1 copia
SWIFT-VOLTAIRE-DIDEROT 1 copia
Penguin Great Ideas : A Tale of A Tub: Written by Jonathan Swift, 2004 Edition, (New Ed) Publisher: Penguin [Paperback] (2004) 1 copia
I viaggi di Gulliver a fumetti 1 copia
Jonathan Swift 1 copia
Gullivers Rejser 1 og 2 1 copia
Lo spogliatoio della signora 1 copia
Gulliver’s Travels, etc. 1 copia
Stella's Birth-Days : Poems 1 copia
Greatest Works of Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, The Drapier's Letters, Gulliver's… (2012) 1 copia
The Battle of the Books. Extracted from Selections from Swift edited by Sir Henry Craik (1912) 1 copia
Miscellanies. Vol. 1, 6 1 copia
Gulliver's Travel & Other Writing History — Autore — 1 copia
Three Sermons 1 copia
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: The Voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag, with an Introductory Sketch… (1896) 1 copia
Satire scelte 1 copia
Aboliamo il cristianesimo! 1 copia
Podróże Guliwera 1 copia
Poetry & prose 1 copia
The Spectator 1 copia
The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His Poetical Works, the Tale of a Tub, Battle of the Books,… (2009) 1 copia
A letter of advice to a young poet: together with a proposal for the encouragement of poetry in this Kingdom. By J.… (2010) 1 copia
The Select Works of Jonathan Swift (Volume 2); Containing the Whole of His Poetical Works, the Tale of a Tab, Battle of… (2010) 1 copia
Justice and Lawyers 1 copia
Miscellanies : the ninth volume 1 copia
Directions to Servants and Miscellaneous Pieces, 1733-1742 (The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 13) (1973) 1 copia
Mährchen von der Tonne Eine neue Übersetzung mit Erläuterungen von dem Verfasser der Briefe eines reisenden… (1986) 1 copia
Gulliver's Travels In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version) (2012) 1 copia
Gullivers Reisen. Nach alten Ausg. neu erzählt von Franz Taucher u. mit zahlreichen Ill. von Lajos von Horvath (1947) 1 copia
Gulliver's Travels (abridged) 1 copia
Les voyages de gulliver (adapté) 1 copia
Miscellanies. The third volume 1 copia
Viajes de Gulliver : Cuento de una barrica. La conducta de los aliados. Humilde propuesta. De "Los papeles de… (1988) 1 copia
The Works of the Reverend Jonathan Swift DD, Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin Carefully Selected with a Life of the Author… (1869) 1 copia
Viatges de Gulliver a Li·liput 1 copia
As Viagens de Guliver - Volume I 1 copia
Gulliver în ţara piticilor 1 copia
La mécanique de l'esprit 1 copia
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS GREAT ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS with illustrations reproducing for early edition and photographs of… (1950) 1 copia
Miscellanies. The second volume 1 copia
Miscellanies. The first volume 1 copia
Gullivers rejser 1-2 1 copia
Letters and journals of Jonathan Swift. Selected and edited with a commentary and notes, by Stanley Lane-Poole. (1885) 1 copia
Satiren 1 copia
Gulliver . Viaje a Liliput 1 copia
Résolutions pour quand je vieillirai et autres pensées sur divers sujets (Folio Sagesses) (French Edition) (2018) 1 copia
Essays 1 copia
Swift Jonathan 1 copia
Gullivers Reisen in ferne Länder 1 copia
Modeste proposition pour empêcher les enfants des pauvres d'être à la charge de leurs parents ou: de leur pays et… (2006) 1 copia
Gullivers Reisen 1 copia
Los viajes de Gulliver (Con notas y completo): y "Una modesta proposición" (anotado por Álvaro… (2014) 1 copia
Beteja e librave 1 copia
Gulliver's voyage to Lilliput, by Jonathan Swift, in the corresponding style of Pitman's shorthand 1 copia
Swift oeuvres 1 copia
A proposal for correcting the English tongue, polite conversation, etc (The prose works of Jonathan Swift) (1957) 1 copia
I quattro viaggi di Gulliver 1 copia
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding (The Complete Harvard Classics, Vol. 27) (KINDLE) 1 copia
The Poetical Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. In Four Volumes. With the Life of the… (1787) 1 copia
Swift's Works 1 copia
Los viajes de Gulliver (Tomo I) 1 copia
Los viajes de Gulliver (Tomo II) 1 copia
Cuento de un tonel 1 copia
Humble proposition suivie de Proposition pour la généralisation des produits irlandais (2002) 1 copia
Satiren. Mit einem Essay von Martin Walser. Aus dem Englischen von Felix Paul Greve (revidiert), Walther Freisburger… (1965) 1 copia
Gulliver's Travels. Based on Jonathan Swift's Immortal Tale. Based on Paramount's Motion Picture (1939) 1 copia
Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. Introduction By John F. Ross (1966) 1 copia
Voyage de Gulliver 1 copia
The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 copia
The works of Dean Swift : embracing Gulliver's travels, Tale of a tub, Battle of the books, etc. 1 copia
Gulliver's travels [abridged] 1 copia
La storia di Gulliver 1 copia
Gullivers Reisen. Alle Bände 1 copia
Jonathan Swift - A Selection Of His Works: Gulliver's Travels; A Tale Of A Tub; The Battle of The Books; A Modest… (1969) 1 copia
Gulliver's Travels, etc 1 copia
A Meditation upon a Broom-stick 1 copia
Gulliver en Liliput 1 copia
A modest proposal & other essays 1 copia
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Children's Classic Compendium: Jungle Book / Rip Van Winkle / Guilliver's Travels (1999) — Autore — 29 copie
English Verse: Volume 3: The Eighteenth Century: Swift to Crabbe (Penguin Classics) (1995) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
One Thousand Years of Laughter: An Anthology a Classic Comic Prose (2002) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 7 copie
A voyage to Cacklogallinia, with a description of the religion, policy, customs and manners of that country (1727) — attributed author, alcune edizioni — 6 copie
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Love & Marriage — Collaboratore — 2 copie
A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms — Autore — 1 copia
Lilliput Magazine. November - December 1952. Vol. 31 no. 6. Issue no. 186. — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Nouveaux mémoires du chevalier Guillaume Temple, ambassadeur & plénipotentiaire de la Grande Bretagne en diverses… — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Swift, Jonathan
- Nome legale
- Swift, Jonathan
- Altri nomi
- Bickerstaff, Isaac
- Data di nascita
- 1667-11-30
- Data di morte
- 1745-10-19
- Luogo di sepoltura
- St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ierland
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Ireland
- Luogo di nascita
- Dublin, Ierland
- Luogo di morte
- Dublin, Ierland
- Luogo di residenza
- Dublin, Ireland
Surrey, England, UK
London, England, UK
Trim, Meath, Ireland - Istruzione
- Kilkenny School
Trinity College, Dublin (BA|1686, "by speciali gratia"|D.Div|1702)
Oxford University (MA|1692) - Attività lavorative
- clergyman
poet
writer
dean (St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland)
secretary
editor - Relazioni
- Sheridan, Thomas (godson, friend)
Pope, Alexander (friend)
Godwin, Francis (great-great uncle)
Pilkington, Laetitia (friend) - Organizzazioni
- Scriblerus Club
Kit-Cat Club - Breve biografia
- Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier – or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian". - Nota di disambiguazione
- Please be careful not to mistakenly combine full versions and abridged versions of Jonathan Swift's works.
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Maltrattava gli amici come maltrattava i nemici, perché questa era la sua natura: a chi per la prima volta sedeva alla sua tavola dava da bere il fondo delle bottiglie; a chi gli chiedeva una seconda portata di asparagi, ingiungeva di finire prima i gambi. “Morirò come quell’albero” disse un giorno, indicando una quercia le cui fronde avevano cominciato a seccarsi, “cominciando dall’alto”.
La previsione si avverò: negli ultimi anni fu idiota e pazzo. Conobbe monomanie, dolori atroci, perdita di memoria, incapacità di ragionare. Forse l’esperienza della follia gli suggerì di destinare la sua eredità alla costruzione di un manicomio, ma fedele alle sue abitudini sarcastiche, precisò che lo faceva perché nessuna nazione, più della sua, ne aveva bisogno.
L’odio dell’umanità gli ispirò un libro di viaggi. L’umanità si vendicò trasformando quel libro considerato ingiustamente un intrattenimento per bambini. Sulla sua tomba, in S. Patrick a Dublino, fece incidere:
"ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit",
"dove il selvaggio sdegno non può più lacerare il cuore".
Ad indicare l'impossibilità, per il cuore, di accettare l'ingiustizia del mondo, fino al suo abbandono. Avrete capito chi è.
Hic depositum est Corpus
Ionathan Swift S.T.D.
Hujus Ecclesiæ Cathedralis
Decani
Ubi sæva Indignatio
Ulterius
Cor lacerare nequit.
Abi Viator
Et imitare, si poteris,
Strenuum pro virili
Libertatis Vindicatorem.
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Here is placed the body
Of Jonathan Swift, STD
(Doctor of Sacred Theology)
Dean of this cathedral church
Where savage indignation
Can no longer tear his heart
Go forth, traveller
And imitate, if you can,
a valiant champion
of manly freedom.
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Questa è poesia che gli dedicò il poeta W. B. Yeats
Swift has sailed into his rest;
Savage indignation there
Cannot lacerate his breast.
Imitate him if you dare,
World-besotted traveller; he
Served human liberty.
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Swift è in viaggio verso il suo riposo;
La selvaggia indignazione
non potrà più lacerare il suo petto.
Imitatelo, se potete,
voi viaggiatori del mondo;
egli ha servito la libertà.
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I viaggi di Gulliver di Jonathan Swift è un romanzo satirico del XVIII secolo che narra le avventure di un medico di bordo, Lemuel Gulliver, che viene sballottato dalle tempeste in mari sconosciuti e approda in terre lontane e fantastiche.
Il romanzo si compone di quattro libri, ciascuno dei quali racconta un viaggio diverso. Nel primo libro, Gulliver approda nel regno di Lilliput, dove gli abitanti sono alti solo dodici pollici. In questo mondo, Gulliver è un gigante che viene catturato e costretto a servire il re. Gulliver osserva con curiosità e ironia le abitudini e le leggi dei Lilliputiani, che spesso si rivelano assurde e contraddittorie.
Nel secondo libro, Gulliver approda nel regno di Brobdingnag, dove gli abitanti sono alti come giganti. Anche in questo caso, Gulliver è un oggetto di curiosità e meraviglia. I Brobdingnagiani sono un popolo pacifico e saggio, che giudica con disprezzo la crudeltà e la follia degli uomini.
Nel terzo libro, Gulliver approda nel paese dei cavalli intelligenti, gli Houyhnhnms, e dei bruti, gli Yahoo. Gli Houyhnhnms sono un popolo perfetto, che vive in armonia con la natura e con se stesso. I Yahoo, invece, sono esseri animaleschi, violenti e sporchi. Gulliver si sente sempre più a disagio in questo mondo e, alla fine, decide di tornare a casa.
Nel quarto libro, Gulliver torna in Inghilterra, ma si trova in un mondo che gli appare sempre più alieno e insensato. Gulliver si ritira in solitudine, disgustato dalla stupidità e dalla malvagità degli uomini.
I viaggi di Gulliver è un'opera complessa e ricca di significati. Il romanzo può essere letto come un'avventura fantastica, ma anche come una satira pungente della società dell'epoca. Swift critica con sarcasmo i vizi e le contraddizioni degli uomini, dalla politica alla religione, dalla scienza alla cultura.
Il romanzo è scritto con uno stile semplice e scorrevole, ma è anche ricco di immagini e metafore che ne rendono la lettura affascinante e stimolante. I viaggi di Gulliver è un classico della letteratura che ha influenzato generazioni di scrittori e pensatori.
Punti di forza:
La storia è avvincente e ricca di colpi di scena.
La satira è pungente e irriverente.
Lo stile è semplice e scorrevole, ma anche ricco di immagini e metafore.
Punti deboli:
Il romanzo è talvolta troppo lungo e prolisso.
Il personaggio di Gulliver è un po' piatto e poco sviluppato.
Conclusione:
I viaggi di Gulliver è un'opera importante e significativa che merita di essere letta e conosciuta. È un romanzo che intrattiene e fa riflettere, e che ancora oggi può essere considerato un classico della letteratura.… (altro)