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 André
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.
