Gulliver’s Travels

This revision of the Norton Critical Edition of Gulliver’s Travels has made it possible to give representation to the works on Swift and the Travels that have appeared during the last decade. The section of criticism, while retaining all the essays of the first edition, has been enriched with new essays by Allan Bloom, Paul Fussell, Jr., C. J. Rawson, and Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr.

New to this edition is a section consisting of the five delightful poems, “Verses on Gulliver’s Travels”, by Pope, which appeared initially in the 1727 edition. The section of correspondence has been enlarged to include more of Swift and to introduce the voices of Pope, Gay, and Arbuthnot, who record their own and London’s reactions to this most remarkable of volumes. The text of Swift’s letters is based on Harold Williams’ monumental edition of the Correspondence.

The bibliography has been thoroughly revised and updated.