Product Description
"Miscellanies in Prose and Verse" (1727-32) contained contributions by three of the leading satirists of the early 18th century, published at the time when all three were at the height of their powers. The set of the "Miscellanies" from which the present edition is taken has similar annotations, possibly in Swift's hand, but almost certainly from a Swift source. Unlike the set in the Rothschild library, it attributes writings to Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot. The allusions to Swift largely coincide with those that are present in the Rothschild copy. this edition contains a full analysis of the attributions from the two original copies.
About the Author
Alex Pettit is at the University of North Texas. He is General Editor of Pickering & Chatto's Selected Works of Eliza Haywood (2000), and author of the award-winning Illusory Consensus: Bolingbroke and the Polemical Response to Walpole, 1730-1737 (1997) William Rees-Mogg is a former editor of The Times, London, and still a regular contributor.
