A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver
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It is often difficult for people to picture men in the clergy as being social humans who could have casual interactions with people outside of the church. This book explores the idea of a social clergyman in a world where Lemuel Gulliver was a real person. Since Lemuel Gulliver is the fictional protagonist and narrator of Gulliver's Travels, a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726, satire and entertainment are the main purposes of this story.
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A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
LETTER
Clergyman to his Friend,
THE TRAVELS
Captain Lemuel Gulliver .
Character of the Author.
The True REASONS why a certain DOCTOR was made a DEAN.
LONDON
Printed for A. MOORE near St. Paul's .
MDCCXXVI. Price 3d.
A LETTER FROM A CLERGYMAN TO HIS FRIEND.
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK
MEMORIAL LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
The Augustan Reprint Society
The Augustan Reprint Society
PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT
INTRODUCTION
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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