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Jonathan Swift

Dean and Pastor

by Robert Wyse Jackson

  • Paperback
  • 212 pages
  • Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
  • 13.8 x 19 x 1.4 cm

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Swift as a hardworking clergyman, caring for the poor, upholding a standard of decency in worship which was then almost unknown, practicing habits of prayer which he carefully concealed from the eyes of his friends - such is the theme of this book, which, omitting the well-worn subjects dear to the literary critic, succeeds in giving a new picture of the man himself. The real purpose of these chapters is to give an outline of Swift's religious life, and to sketch something of the work he did during his thirty-two years as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. It is particularly necessary to do this in Swift's case, because he himself was so singularly unwilling to advertise the fact that he had a religion of any sort. At the first casual glance Swift would seem to have little interest in Christianity. It does not leap to the mind at once that Swift was a Church dignitary. Far more publicity attaches to his writings than to his Deanship. The average reader thinks of Swift as the author of Gulliver's Travels and as the writer of bitterly cutting and often scurrilous satires. He does not often realize that Swift was a great Dean.
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  • Author

    Robert Wyse Jackson

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    University Press of the Pacific

  • Published

    December 2003

  • Weight

    237g

  • Page Count

    212

  • Dimensions

    13.8 x 19 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781410210135

  • ISBN-10

    1410210138

  • Eden Code

    4636015

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