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    A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Description of the Morning"
    A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Description of the Morning"
    A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Description of the Morning"
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    A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Description of the Morning"

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    A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Description of the Morning," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535816618
    A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Description of the Morning"

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      A Study Guide for Jonathan Swift's "A Description of the Morning" - Gale

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      A Description of the Morning

      Jonathan Swift

      1709

      Introduction

      A Description of the Morning is a poem by the eighteenth-century English satirist Jonathan Swift. It was first published in the Tatler magazine on April 30, 1709. The forty-two-year-old Swift had been living in London for about seventeen months at the time, and his friend, the Irish writer Sir Richard Steele (1672–1729) had just started publishing, with Swift's help, this satirical magazine. Swift's poem appeared in the ninth issue, just two weeks after the very first one. Steele recognized that the poem was based on the area in London where Swift lived and commended it for its realistic portrayal of city life. Swift was at the time already well known for his work as a prose satirist and as a man of wit.

      Today Swift is known primarily for his two prose works, A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels. His poetry may have, on the whole, proved less enduring, but the poem A Description of the Morning has always attracted admiration and commentary as an example of the characteristic way Swift perceived the world around him. It can be found in Jonathan Swift: Major Works (2008), edited by Angus Ross and David Woolley in the Oxford World's Classics series, and The Tale of a Tub: And Other Works (Forgotten Books, 2010).

      Author Biography

      Swift was born on November 30, 1667, in Dublin, Ireland, to Protestant Anglo-Irish parents. His father died before he was born, and his mother returned to England, leaving Swift in the care of relatives. Swift began his schooling at the Kilkenny Grammar School and then attended Trinity College in Dublin, from which he graduated in

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