Swift among the Women

Margaret Anne Doody

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A certain view of Swift has been powerfully represented in Middleton Murry's shocked denunciation: Nevertheless, it is not his direct obsession with ordure which is the chief cause of the nausea he arouses. It is the strange and disquieting combination of his horror at the fact of human evacuation with a peculiar physical loathing of women. It is an unpleasant subject; but it cannot be burked by any honest critic of Swift. The conventional excuses made for him are ridiculous. . . . Lust is natural and wholesome compared to the feeling Swift arouses.

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