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- Title
PURCHAS AND SWIFT: WHERE HORSES TALK AND EAGLES CARRY MEN.
- Authors
Passmann, Dirk
- Abstract
The article discusses that there is sufficient evidence in the criticism of the book "Gulliver's Travels" to suggest that Jonathan Swift was thoroughly acquainted with travel literature. The inventories as well as the sale catalogue of Swift's library list a considerable stock of travel books. During the composition of the Travels, travel accounts seem to have been Swift's favorite reading. Among the travel books Swift owned was the 1625 edition of "Purchas his Pilgrimes," the most important compilation of travel accounts in the seventeenth century, whose significance as a source for "Gulliver's Travels" has been established more than once.
- Subjects
GULLIVER'S Travels (Book : Swift); SWIFT, Jonathan, 1667-1745; LITERARY style; TRAVEL in literature; ANTHOLOGIES; VOYAGES &; travels
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1984, Vol 31, Issue 3, p390
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/31-3-390