Part 1:Introduction 5
Life of Swift 5
Varina,Stella and Vanessa 9
Swift and the Chutch 10
The Puritan Commonwealth 11
The Restoration:Tories and Whigs 12
The triple alliance 12
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 12
War with France 13
The situation of Ireland 14
Some of Swift's other works 15
A note on the text 16
Part 2:Summaries 18
A general summary 18
Detailed summaries 19
Part 3:Commentary 46
The nature of the work 46
Swift's irony 53
A critical commentary 58
Part 4:Hints for study 71
Questions 71
Part 5:Suggestions for further reading 77
The author of these notes 79