Letters and Journals of Jonathan Swift (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Letters and Journals of Jonathan Swift

I will not, however, allow myself to be betrayed into a disquisition upon Swift as a letter writer. There is a great advantage attaching to a second volume in a series it is possible to profit by the criticisms that have been passed upon the first. Some of my reviewers (for whom I have too much fellow feeling to think of disputing their judgments, though the public, perversely enough, do not echo them) were advised that my introduction to the Prose Wn'tz'ngs was too discursive, and indeed a trifle superfluous; it discoursed, pleasantly, they were so kind as to allow, concerning all things extant and a few besides, and this they opined was unnecessary in a volume of selections from Swift. Perhaps it was introductory essays may not be required for so well thumbed a classic as Swift appears to be; and I shall therefore in the present instance follow my critics' ad vice and confine myself to the briefest possible remarks.

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