This Norton Critical Edition is the fullest single-volume collection of Jonathan Swift's writings, encompassing not only the major prose satires�A Tale of the Tub, Gulliver�s Travels, and A Modest Proposal�but also a large number of other works, including his most important poems and political writings. The texts are accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations by Ian Higgins, thirty illustrations, and a full introduction by Claude Rawson. This is an indispensable edition for scholar and student alike. �Contexts� features a generous selection of contemporary materials, among them Swift's letters, autobiographical documents, and personal writings. �Criticism� provides readers with a wide chronological and thematic range of scholarly interpretations, divided into two sections. The first, �1745�1940,� includes assessments by Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Makepeace Thackeray, D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, F. R. Leavis, and Andr� Breton, among others. The second, �After 1940,� is by subject and collects critical discussions of A Tale of the Tub, the poems, the English and Irish politics, and Gulliver�s Travels, by Hugh Kenner, Marcus Walsh, Irvin Ehrenpreis, Penelope Wilson, Derek Mahon, S. J. Connolly, George Orwell, R. S. Crane, Jenny Mezciems, Ian Higgins, and Claude Rawson. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. 1 map, illustrations.