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When young, A.L. Rouse first contemplated writing a life of Swift; now [1975], in the mature reflections of a great scholar, we have a major biography at once hugely readable, highly instructive and acutely relevant to our time. Swift's long life---he was born in 1667 and died in 1745---provides a superb picture of the period, in which all the great issues, political and religious, social and intellectual, are vividly represented.
