by Leo Damrosch
Cleveland, Duchess of, 30
clichés, 104–5
Clifford, James L., 522n46
Clonfert (Ireland), 345
Clonfert, bishop of, 415
Club (English politics), 206–7, 241, 242, 252, 256, 257
C.M.P.G.N.S.T.N.S., 52, 71; cryptanalysis of, 53
coal, 343
Cobbett, William, 133
Cobham, Lord, 382
Cockayne, Emily, 495n8
coffee, Pope on, 178
“coffee” (Vanessa-Swift code word), 1–2, 235, 236, 240, 327–28, 329, 330
coffeehouses, 178, 204–5; as brothels, 328; Spectator coterie and, 241; Swift’s practical jokes and, 187–88
coinage: Swift protest and, 461. See also halfpence
Coleire, Richard, 176
Coleridge, Samuel, 134
Collection of the Several Statutes, and Parts of Statutes, Now in Force, . . . Relating to High Treason and Misprision of High Treason (legal treatise), 287
Colum, Padraic, 369
Communion. See Holy Communion
Compton Hall. See Moor Park
compulsive personality, 69
Conduct of the Allies, The (Swift), 250–51, 256
Congreve, William, 19, 180, 181, 245; Swift ode to, 84, 86; The Way of the World, 180
Connolly, S. J. (historian), 344
Connolly, Squire, 351
Connor, cathedral of (Ireland), 75
Contests and Dissensions in Athens and Rome (Swift), 127, 128–30, 131, 158
Coote, H., 232
Cope, Robert, 347
Copernican system, 87
Copyright Act (1710), 135
Corinthians, First Epistle to the, 467
Cork (Ireland), 345, 414–15
Cork, archdeacon of, 462
Corneille, Pierre, 87
country squires. See landowners
Country Whigs, 173–74
Covent Garden (London), 117
Coverley, Sir Roger de (Spectator character), 241
Cowley, Abraham, 82
Cowper, Earl, 267
Craik, Henry, 79, 106, 219, 415, 503n26
Crane, R. S., 377–78
Cromwell, Oliver, 128
Crow, Nora, 365
Cunningham, Patrick, 471
Cupid, 179, 237
currency, 348, 461; Swift’s likeness on, 411. See also halfpence
Darwin, Charles, 274
David, King (biblical), 396
Davis, Herbert, 215, 228
Day of Judgment, The (Swift), 455
dean (clerical title): collection of income by, 260–61; duties of, 256; expenses of, 258–59; Swift’s many self-references as, 267
Dean Swift’s Well (Market Hill), 441, 441
Death and Daphne (Swift), 438–39
Declaration of Rights (1689), 158
Declaratory Act (1720), 344
Decree for Concluding the Treaty between Dr. Swift and Mrs. Long (Swift), 233
Defoe, Daniel, 115, 120, 174, 206, 370; naïve realism of, 361–62; personality of, 175; political underworld and, 174–75; Robinson Crusoe, 175, 252, 361–62; slave trade and, 252; on stock market, 340; Swift’s anonymous opposition to, 175; Swift’s Tale of a Tub and, 144–45
deism, 151–52
Delany, Patrick, 27, 70, 81, 206, 207, 280, 336, 345, 414, 428; on Carteret and Swift, 355–56; Harley knife story and, 203–4; marriage to Mary Pendarves of, 431; Stella-Swift relationship and, 307, 317–18; as subscriber to Swift’s collected writings, 461; on Swift’s cleanliness rituals, 69; Swift’s close friendship with, 280–81; on Swift’s dinners, 277–78; Swift’s final years and, 463, 467; on Swift-Sheridan bond, 282; on Swift’s preaching, 269, 270; on Swift’s religious sincerity, 147–48; Swift-Stella secret marriage rumor and, 317–18; Swift’s view of, 425; on Swift-Temple relationship, 44
dementia, 144, 147, 368, 376, 460–61, 463–67, 469
Democritus, 454
denial (psychological), 140–41
DePorte, Michael, 218, 220, 403
Derry, deanery of, 103
Descartes, René, 245
Description of a City Shower, A (Swift), 123–24, 171–72, 184
Description of the Morning, A (Swift), 120–23, 184
Dickens, Charles, 24, 175
Dictionary of the English Language, A. See Johnson Dictionary definitions
Dingley, Rebecca, 42, 92, 180, 258, 304, 401, 404, 433–34; as co-recipient of Journal to Stella, 216–30; Dublin lodgings of, 273; Quilca visit of, 304; South Sea stock and, 339; Stella’s bequest to, 408; Stella’s relationship with, 107, 108, 109, 308; as subscriber to Swift’s collected writings, 461; Swift’s deanery and, 272–73; Swift’s dismissive poem about, 308; on Swift-Stella marriage rumor, 317
Dingley and Brent (Swift), 308
Directions for a Birthday Song (Swift), 398–99
Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome with the Consequences They Had on Both Those States, A (Swift), 127, 128–30, 131, 158
Dissenters, 131, 144–45; Bolingbroke vs. Oxford view of, 264; Church of Ireland tithes and, 75; curtailment of rights of, 208; Sacheverell sermon against, 192; Swift’s concern about, 151–53; Test Act ban from public office of, 150, 152, 155; as Whig support basis, 126; Whig toleration policy for, 194, 208, 210. See also Presbyterianism; Puritans
divine-right doctrine, 192
Dobbs, Arthur, 76
Dobbs, Richard, 75–76
Donoghue, Denis, 142
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 193, 197
Dorchester, Countess of, 65
double entendres, 444, 445
Down (Ireland), 75
Drapier (ships), 414
Drapier, M. B. (Swift pseudonym), 6, 348, 352, 356
Drapier’s Head (Irish taverns), 414
Drapier’s Hill (Swift land purchase), 439–40
Drapier’s Letters (Swift), 348, 349–54, 356, 357, 371, 414
Dr. Bentley’s Dissertation Examined (Christ Church College), 88
Drogheda, Lord, 105
Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope, While He Was Writing the Dunciad (Swift), 390
Dryden, John, 5, 29, 82, 84–86, 85, 88–89, 136, 178; dedications by, 159; The Secular Masque, 92–93; translation of Ovid by, 184; translation of Virgil by, 121
Dublin: cathedrals of, 72, 267–68 (see also St. Patrick’s Cathedral); Custom House, 21; filth and stench in, 446–47; Gulliver’s Travels and, 381; map of, 22; mentally ill in, 144; Protestants in, 18; Sheridan’s house in, 304–5; Stella in, 56, 107–12, 272–73, 316, 380; Swift annual birthday commemoration in, 354, 414, 422–23, 467; Swift as celebrity in, 411, 414, 422–23; Swift family’s settlement in, 12, 14, 59–60, 415–16; Swift’s association with, 124; Swift’s birth in, 9, 10–11, 58; Swift’s dislike of, 413; Swift’s meetings with Vanessa in, 324; Swift’s physical danger in, 287–88; Swift’s returns to, 71–75, 159; Swift’s social life in, 279–85; Trinity College in, 21, 22, 23–29; Vanessa’s town house in, 321, 329; Vanhomrigh family and, 231; War of the Two Kings and, 31; weavers and, 348, 415–16
Dublin Castle, 102–3, 159
Dublin Corporation, 414
Dublin Journal, 422–23
Dublin Philosophical Society, 24
duels, 224–25
Dunciad, The (Pope), 246, 387, 390, 392
Dunlavin parish (Ireland), 101
Dunton, John, 84
Ehrenpreis, Irvin, 17, 28, 29, 78, 83, 112, 202, 212, 269, 343, 350, 353, 436, 460, 482n10, 484n55, 487n32, 507n40, 518n35; biography Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age by, 4–6; on Bolingbroke-Oxford negotiations with Pretender, 288; on Bolingbroke’s lifestyle, 200; Freudian interpretation by, 5, 312; limitations of work of, 5–6, 53, 57; on poem to Biddy Floyd, 179; on Swift and Vanessa, 235, 240, 321, 324, 326, 331; on Swift pseudonym, 190; on Swift’s “anxious asexualism,” 235, 240; on Swift’s background, 11, 12; on Swift’s compulsive personality, 69; on Swift’s eulogy for Temple, 90; on Swift�
�s mother, 59; on Swift’s prayer for Stella, 406; on Swift’s reaction to mother’s death, 191; on Swift-Stella relationship, 312, 326; on Swift-Temple relationship, 44, 72; on Swift-Vanessa relationship, 235, 240; on symbolic paternity, 312; on Temple’s liaisons, 55; on threats to Swift, 457; on unconscious motivations, 312; on Vanessa’s emotional blackmail, 326
Elias, A. C., Swift at Moor Park, 44, 45, 53, 71–72, 72–73, 82–83, 89, 90
Elijah (prophet), 299
Eliot, T. S., 420
Elizabeth I, queen of England, 21
Elphin, bishop of, 415
empiricism, 142
Empson, William, 136
England: European geopolitics and, 127–28, 252; imperial expansion of, 4, 12, 32, 128, 170, 171, 192, 252, 340–45; John Bull symbol of, 243; as leading global power, 252; mercantilism and, 341–45, 422; slave trade and, 252; Swift’s abduction as infant to, 2, 12–14, 57, 59, 60, 453; Swift’s final move from, 266; Swift’s first move to, 15, 31, 32, 33; Swift’s friends in, 382–86; Swift’s mother’s move to, 15; Swift’s successive stays in (1726, 1727), 379–92, 395–410; Union with Scotland (1707) of, 161–63, 192, 262. See also London; other specific place-names
English civil wars, 11, 16, 17, 75, 132, 150, 164; Whig and Tory origins in, 126
English Humorist, The (Thackeray), 376
English politics, 3–4, 124–30, 154–63, 191–214, 247–52, 253–66, 286–96; bureaucracy creation and, 170; Church of England and, 12, 125, 150, 152–53, 155, 208; endless wars and, 65, 66, 128, 167–71, 191; governing ministry and, 157–58, 172–74; Gulliver’s Travels allegory of, 370–72; Ireland and, 343–47; landowners and, 157, 208, 251; modern party system’s inception and, 4, 126 (see also Tories; Whigs); South Sea Bubble and, 338–41; Swift’s belief in balance of power in, 252; Swift’s conservatism and, 7; Swift’s influence and, 204–7, 208; Swift’s last causes and, 456–60; Walpole as first true prime minister and, 292. See also monarchy; Parliament
English Privy Council, 351
Ennis (Ireland), 345
Epicureanism, 41–42, 44, 141
Epistles of Philaris, 87–88, 89, 426
Epistle to a Lady, Who Desired the Author to Make Verses on Her, in the Heroic Style (Swift), 454
Epistle to Augustus Caesar (Horace), 195
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Pope), 245
Erasmus, Desiderius, In Praise of Folly, 134, 140, 141
Ericke, Abigail, 59
Ericke, James, 11
Ericke, Thomas, 11, 59
Essais (Montaigne), 81
Essay on Criticism, An (Pope), 386
Essay on Man (Pope), 383
Essay upon the Ancient and Modern Learning (Temple), 43, 87
established Church: Swift’s commitment to concept of, 74–75, 282. See also Anglican Church; Church of England; Church of Ireland
Eucharist. See Holy Communion
Eugene, prince of Savoy, 167
Evans, bishop of Meath, 334–35
Evelyn, John, 113, 123
Evening Post (periodical), 246
Examiner (periodical), 195, 202–3, 208, 209–11, 247, 312, 339, 417; derisive definition of Whigs by, 286
Excellent New Panegyric on Skinnibonia, An (Swift), 437–38, 439
excrement, 120, 365, 369, 444, 445, 446–47, 449–50; sex linked with, 452, 453
Fabricant, Carole, 302, 511n10
Farnham (England), 37, 107
Faulkner, George, 19–20, 399, 437, 460; publication of Swift’s collected works by, 359, 359, 461, 462; Swift bust and, 471; on Swift’s appearance, 25; on Swift’s dementia, 466–67
Fielding, Henry, 119, 134, 444, 457; The History of Tom Jones, 19, 75, 307
“Fifteen, the” (1715). See Jacobite Rising
Filby (baker), 222
finance: speculation and, 170–71, 252, 338–41, 384; war funding and, 169–71, 251, 252, 339. See also stock exchange
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 45
First Fruits and Twentieth Parts, Swift remission campaign, 154, 155, 159, 163, 171, 175, 190, 195–96, 267, 414
Fleet Ditch (London), 120
Flower, William, 80
Floyd, Biddy, 179
Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, 492n23
Ford, Charles, 180, 274, 283, 333, 334, 338, 347, 357, 378, 425, 441; Stella-Swift relationship and, 307–8; Woodpark country house of, 299
Forster, John, 24
Fountaine, Sir Andrew, 194, 220–21, 234
France, 31, 39, 64, 66, 87, 127, 170, 171, 201, 208; Académie Française of, 212; Bolingbroke’s flight to, 288, 291; Bolingbroke’s pension from, 384; “moderns vs. ancients” quarrel and, 87; peace negotiations and, 246, 249; Pretender’s return to, 289; romantic love conception and, 237. See also War of the Spanish Succession
Frankenstein (fictional), 372
Freeport, Sir Andrew (Spectator character), 241
freethinkers, 151–52
French Revolution, 127
Freud, Sigmund, 5, 136, 452, 453; uncanny concept and, 3, 220
Gadarene swine (biblical), 458
Gaelic language, 281–82
Gaiety Theatre (Dublin), 420
Galway, Earl of, 103, 105
gambling, 159
Gargantua (Rabelais), 134
Gaulstown (Rochfort country house), 299, 301–2
Gay, John, 372, 384–86, 386, 388, 391, 397, 398; death of, 425–26; epitaphs for, 426; obesity of, 245; Scriblerus Club and, 245–46; Swift’s friendship with, 245, 384–85; Walpole satire by, 293; works of: The Beggar’s Opera, 185, 246, 293, 385–86; New Song of New Similes, 384; Trivia; or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, 120, 245
Gentleman’s Magazine, 53, 318
George, Prince of Denmark (Queen Anne’s consort), 156, 182
George I, king of Great Britain, 65, 125–26, 165, 202, 254, 343, 348, 461; accession to throne of, 264–65, 288; Atterbury trial and, 295, 296; death of, 396; mistress of, 291; Swift’s hatred of, 286; Whig sympathies of, 254, 262
George II, king of Great Britain, 394, 396, 398
George III, king of Great Britain, 63
Georgics (Virgil), 123–24
Geree, John, 52–53, 55, 56, 71, 111, 320; letter about Moor Park ménage by, 318; memories of Stella of, 52–53, 55, 227, 472; Swift’s stay in country house of, 263–65, 288, 289, 320
Geree, John, the elder, 71
Geree, Simon, 71
Germaine, Lady Betty (née Elizabeth Berkeley), 102, 179, 397
Gibbon, Edward, 19, 89
Gibeonites (biblical), 347
Giffard, Lady (née Martha Temple), 39, 40, 42, 50, 51, 55, 56, 92, 107, 180, 223, 255; brother’s death and, 89, 90, 91; on brother’s temper, 45; employment of Stella’s mother by, 222; Swift’s quarrel with, 222
glebe, 97, 98
Glendinning, Victoria: Jonathan Swift, 7, 52, 69; on Swift-Vanessa relationship, 235
Glorious Revolution. See Revolution of 1688
Glumdalclitch (fictional), 367–68, 368
God, 149, 152, 455
Godolphin, Lord, 157, 166, 172, 172, 210; accomplishments of, 192, 193; fall from power of, 191–93, 248
Goodrich (Herefordshire), 16, 17, 380
Gosford Castle, 441
government securities, 169–71
Grafton, Duke of, 30, 352
Grand Alliance, 167
Grattan, Henry, 353
Grattan brothers, 279–80, 299
Great Fire of London (1666), 113
Greek gods, 179, 236, 237, 328
Grierson, Constantia, 428
Griffin, V. G., 472
Grub Street, 134–35, 190, 387
Guiscard, Marquis de, 201, 202, 203
Gulliver, Lemuel (Swift pseudonym), 6, 15, 246, 380, 381, 395; characteristics of, 359–60; fighting rat, 364; portrait of, 359; tied down with rope, 3, 44, 360–61, 361
Gulliver, Samuel, 380
Gulliver on Dollymount Strand (fiberglass model), 3
Gulliver’s Travels, 2, 3, 8, 14
, 24, 51, 119, 133, 346, 357–78; as allegory of current events, 254, 256, 370–72, 522nn31, 33; Atterbury trial reference in, 294–96; balance between realism and fantasy of, 360, 362–63; as children’s classic, 3, 369–70; Coleire’s story as germ idea for, 176; disorienting perspective changes in, 220; English publisher of, 379, 380–81, 389; expurgated versions of, 369; fantasy elements in, 185; four voyages of, 357–58; “hard” and “soft” schools of interpretation of, 522n46; illustrations of, 361, 363, 364, 364, 367, 368, 369, 372–73, 373; misanthropic foundation of, 377; originality of, 358; original title of, 380; on peerage, 157; political outlook of, 293; relative scale portrayed in, 363, 364–66; religious belief and, 151; restoration of cut passages from, 461; satire of, 293, 358, 370–72, 381; timelessness of, 472; time spent writing of, 357; tinnitus description in, 274; as universal classic, 3, 360, 369–70, 371; White’s sequel to, 178–79. See also Brobdingnagians; Houyhnhnms; Lagado flying island; Lilliputians
Gunpowder Plot (1605), 192
Guy Fawkes Day, 30, 192
Gwynn, Eleanor, 30
Gwynne, Francis, 205
Habsburg Empire, 128, 167, 169, 252
Hakluyt, Richard, 358
halfpence, 348, 350–51, 354–56, 371, 522n31
Halifax, Lord, 130, 157, 158, 172–73, 173, 194–95
Hamilton, Duchess of, 224, 225
Hamilton, Duke of, 224–25
Hamilton, Richard, 40
Hampstead (London), 114
Hampton Court, 182
Hanmer, Thomas, 264
Hanover dynasty, 125–26, 254
Harding, John, 352–53
Harlequin (dog), 294–95
Harley, Edward, 339
Harley, Robert. See Oxford, first Earl of
Harrietsham (England), 176
Harris, Frances, 105
Hart Hall (later Hereford College), 71
Harvey, William, 87
Hawkesworth, John, 317
Helen of Troy, 140
Henry VIII, king of England, 72, 151, 373
Herbert, Sir Thomas, A Relation of Some Years Travaille, through Divers Parts of Asia and Africke, 358
Hereford Cathedral, 380
Hill, Geoffrey, 446, 451
Hints towards an Essay on Conversation (Swift), 433
Hirsch, E. D., 481n10
History of John Bull, The (Arbuthnot), 227, 243
History of the Four Last Years of the Queen, A (Swift), 261
Hoare, William, portrait of Pope, 389
Hobbes, Thomas, 491n4; Leviathan, 132–33
