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SWIFT, Jonathan]. An Epistle to a Lady, who desired the author to make verses on her, in the heroick stile. Also a poem, occasion ’ d by reading Dr. Young ’ s satires, called the Universal Passion. [London]: Dublin, printed: and reprinted at London for J. Wilford, 1734 [but 1733].
SWIFT, Jonathan]. An Epistle to a Lady, who desired the author to make verses on her, in the heroick stile. Also a poem, occasion ’ d by reading Dr. Young ’ s satires, called the Universal Passion. [London]: Dublin, printed: and reprinted at London for J. Wilford, 1734 [but 1733]. 2° (345 x 223mm). (Light browning to title.) Modern cream wrappers, front cover with title in manuscript. FIRST AND ONLY SEPARATE EDITION , published 15 November 1733 and addressed to Lady Acheson. No copy of a Dublin edition is known. In this poem about his role as a poet, Swift and his hostess conduct a dialogue in which she begs him to give up his “paultry Burlesque Stile … Turning all to Ridicule.” Instead she wishes him to “Sing my Praise in Strain sublime.” Swift is gentleman enough to admit that some praises are due, but after urging her to be a fairer conversationalist and give all her guests equal attention, he insists on remaining a satirist. He can more easily “encounter Vice with Mirth./ Wicked Ministers of State/ I can easier scorn than hate.” As if proving the point, the epistle ends with a satire on Walpole which led to several arrests once Swift’s Rapsody on poetry had also been published on 31 December. Matthew Pilkington, through whose agency the poem had been printed in London, is thought to have informed on Swift, and the reaction of the authorities probably made Swift abandon a planned last visit to England. Foxon S841; Rogers 866; Rothschild 2146; Teerink 745; Williams 628; John Irwin Fischer, “The Government’s Response to Swift’s An Epistle to a Lady ,” Philological Quarterly 65 (1986): 39-59.

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SWIFT, Jonathan]. An Epistle to a Lady, who desired the author to make verses on her, in the heroick stile. Also a poem, occasion ’ d by reading Dr. Young ’ s satires, called the Universal Passion. [London]: Dublin, printed: and reprinted at London for J. Wilford, 1734 [but 1733].
SWIFT, Jonathan]. An Epistle to a Lady, who desired the author to make verses on her, in the heroick stile. Also a poem, occasion ’ d by reading Dr. Young ’ s satires, called the Universal Passion. [London]: Dublin, printed: and reprinted at London for J. Wilford, 1734 [but 1733]. 2° (345 x 223mm). (Light browning to title.) Modern cream wrappers, front cover with title in manuscript. FIRST AND ONLY SEPARATE EDITION , published 15 November 1733 and addressed to Lady Acheson. No copy of a Dublin edition is known. In this poem about his role as a poet, Swift and his hostess conduct a dialogue in which she begs him to give up his “paultry Burlesque Stile … Turning all to Ridicule.” Instead she wishes him to “Sing my Praise in Strain sublime.” Swift is gentleman enough to admit that some praises are due, but after urging her to be a fairer conversationalist and give all her guests equal attention, he insists on remaining a satirist. He can more easily “encounter Vice with Mirth./ Wicked Ministers of State/ I can easier scorn than hate.” As if proving the point, the epistle ends with a satire on Walpole which led to several arrests once Swift’s Rapsody on poetry had also been published on 31 December. Matthew Pilkington, through whose agency the poem had been printed in London, is thought to have informed on Swift, and the reaction of the authorities probably made Swift abandon a planned last visit to England. Foxon S841; Rogers 866; Rothschild 2146; Teerink 745; Williams 628; John Irwin Fischer, “The Government’s Response to Swift’s An Epistle to a Lady ,” Philological Quarterly 65 (1986): 39-59.

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