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The Review of English Studies Advance Access published online on April 15, 2009
The Review of English Studies, doi:10.1093/res/hgp031
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press 2009; all rights reserved

Dean Swift Hears a Sermon: Robert Howard's Ash Wednesday Sermon of 1725 and Gulliver's Travels

David Womersley

St. Catherine's College


  Abstract

In 1725 Jonathan Swift heard Robert Howard deliver an Ash Wednesday sermon in St. Patrick's, Dublin. This article explores the links between Swift and Howard, and in particular between the language of Howard's sermons and Gulliver's Travels, which Swift was then polishing for publication. It sheds light on the composition of Gulliver's Travels, and on the transformations performed by Swift's imagination as context became text. Finally, it touches on the question of Swift's religious convictions, and finds in Swift's transactions with Howard's sermon muffled hints of an inward heterodoxy which could be neither confessed nor denied.


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