Although Swift was not a Londoner by origin or in spirit, references to diverse quarters of the town and many facets of life in the capital turn up in several of Swift’s creative works. This chapter illustrates this pervasive presence in some key writings. First is the milieu evoked by the narrator of the Tale, lodged amid the landmarks that inscribed the cultural semiology of London on its streets and buildings. Poems follow from Swift’s most influential phase in London, such as the ‘Description of a City Shower’. Finally come a set of works that were composed long after the time when, however reluctantly, the author had shaken the dust of England off his heels.