Jonathan Swift was a man of contradictions: a man who satirized the powerful but aspired to political greatness, who mocked men's vanity but held himself in high esteem, a religious moralizer famed for his malicea man sharply aware of humanity's flaws, but no less susceptible to them.
As with his acclaimed biography of John Donne, John Stubbs paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of English and Irish history.
| Contradictions | A man who satirized the powerful but aspired to political greatness who mocked mens vanity but held himself in high esteem a religious moralizer famed for his malicea man sharply aware of humanitys flaws but no less susceptible to themas with his acclaimed biography of |
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Penguin Books Ltd Jonathan swift | john stubbs
