Welcome

Online.Swift is an open access critical online edition of the Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, with introductions and variorum commentaries, made possible through the financial support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) and based at the Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies. It is an on-going project, and new texts and commentaries will be published continuously. Whenever new material comes to light, updates will be made.

News

• Now online: The Sentiments of a Church of England-Man
• Updates to several other Works
• New text added: Fragment on Monarchy
• New text added: A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
• Recent additions to the library of the Ehrenpreis Centre

Swift Guide

Choose a text from the list of Works.

Read the introductions or access the “Text”.

For a commentary on the text, click on the square blue brackets []. The commentary is shown on the right.

The textual apparatus will appear below the right-hand column whenever you click on words and phrases underlined in red.

A full bibliography for each work is available via the print function.

Contact

Any comments and suggestions how to improve Online.Swift are welcome. Please do not hesitate to contact us.

Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies
Johannisstrasse 12 - 20
48143 Münster, Germany
Phone: +49 251 83-24548 or 83-25613
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juhas[at]uni-muenster.de
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