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    A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver
    A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver
    A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver
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    A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver

    By Martin Kallich

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver - Martin Kallich

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      Title: A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend,

      with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver

      Author: Anonymous

      Editor: Martin Kallich

      Release Date: June 21, 2009 [EBook #29189]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTER FROM A CLERGYMAN ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow, Stephanie Eason, Joseph Cooper

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      The Augustan Reprint Society

      A

      LETTER

      FROM A

      Clergyman to his Friend,

      WITH AN ACCOUNT OF

      THE TRAVELS

      OF

      Captain Lemuel Gulliver.

      (Anonymous)

      (1726)

      Introduction by

      Martin Kallich

      PUBLICATION NUMBER 143

      WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

      University of California, Los Angeles

      1970

      INTRODUCTION

      We have a Book lately publish'd here which hath of late taken up the whole conversation of the town. Tis said to be writ by Swift. It is called, The travells of Lemuell Gulliver in two Volumes. It hath had a very great sale. People differ vastly in their opinions of it, for some think it hath a great deal of wit, but others say, it hath none at all.

      John Gay to James Dormer (22 November 1726)

      As Gay's letter suggests, details concerning the contemporary reception of Gulliver's Travels exhibit two sides of Jonathan Swift's character—the pleasant (that is, merry, witty, amusing) and the unpleasant (that is, sarcastic, envious, disaffected). A person with a powerful ego and astringent sense of humor, Swift must have been a delightful friend, if somewhat difficult, but also a dangerous enemy. A Letter from a Clergyman (1726), here reproduced in a facsimile of its first and only edition, is a reaction typical of those who regard Swift and the sharp edge of his satire with great suspicion and revulsion. It displays the dangerously Satanic aspect of Swift—that side of his character which for some people represented the whole man since the allegedly blasphemous satire in A Tale of a Tub, published and misunderstood early in his career, critically affected, even by his own admission, his employment in the Church. It is this evil character of the author, the priest with an indecorous and politically suspect humor, that offended some contemporary readers. To them, the engraved frontispiece of Jonathan Smedley's scurrilous Gulliveriana (1728) is the proper image of the author of the Travels. It portrays Swift in a priest's vestments that barely conceal a cloven hoof.

      In the following pages, we shall define the historical context of the clergyman's Letter and illuminate the nature of the literary warfare in which Swift was an energetic if not particularly cheerful antagonist when Gulliver's Travels was published late in 1726.

      In another letter, Gay remarked to Swift (17 November 1726) that "The Politicians to a man agree, that it [the Travels] is free from particular reflections; nevertheless some people of greater perspicuity would search for particular applications

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