Volume 12, Number 1 · January 16, 1969
A Very Special Case
By Denis Donoghue
Jonathan Swift, A Critical Biography
by John Middleton Murry
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 508 pp., $5.95
Swift, The Man, His Works, and the Age. Volume Two: Dr. Swift
by Irvin Ehrenpreis
Harvard, 782 pp., $17.50
Jonathan Swift
by Nigel Dennis
Macmillan, 160 pp., $4.95
Protean Shape: A Study in 18th. Century Vocabulary and Usage
by Susie I. Tucker
Athlone Press (University of London), 322 pp., 55s
Middleton Murry's book was published in London in 1954. The new American printing leaves the English text unchanged. Nigel Dennis's book is a 'short character' of Swift, a picture. Irvin Ehrenpreis's biography of Swift is planned as a major work in three dense volumes; the first volume was published in 1962, the third is still to come. Protean Shape is a study of Augustan vocabulary and usage, and it is particularly concerned with the mobility of words in the eighteenth century.
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