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Chapter 4 - Politics and Permanence

Miscellanies, Politics and a Proposal Declined (1710–1714)

from Part II - London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2020

Valerie Rumbold
Valerie Rumbold
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University of Birmingham
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Summary

During the hectic period of Swift’s service to the Tory ministry from 1710 to 1714, print not only disseminated his day-to-day political interventions, which were published by the ministry’s official printer, John Barber, but also supported claims for longer-term significance. In 1711 Benjamin Tooke published the Miscellanies in Prose and Verse that first brought together the beginnings of a Swift canon; and in the following year he produced, to particularly expressive effect, Swift’s doomed Proposal to found an academy, fix the language, and celebrate the Queen and her ministers to posterity.

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Swift in Print
Published Texts in Dublin and London, 1691-1765
 , pp. 102 - 140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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