Swift's Angers

Jonathan Swift''s angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tale of a Tub, the aggressive vitality of the narrative is designed, for all the intensity of its sting, never to lose its cool. Yet Swift''s angers are partly self-implicating, since his own temperament was close to the things he attacked, and behind his...