Poems, Volume 1

Wit, venom, and brilliance. The poetry of the greatest satirist in English.

In Poems, Volume 1, readers encounter Jonathan Swift’s sharp, inventive, and often scathing verse. From biting political satires and personal epigrams to playful occasional poems and moral reflections, this collection showcases Swift’s extraordinary range as a poet. His verse combines classical elegance with ferocious wit, exposing human vanity, political corruption, and social hypocrisy with the same unflinching clarity that made Gulliver’s Travels and A Tale of a Tub immortal.

This volume gathers some of Swift’s finest early and mid-career poetry, revealing a master of language whose verse remains as lively, intelligent, and unsettling today as when it was first written.

• A carefully curated selection of Swift’s poetry
• Showcases his mastery of satire, irony, and classical form
• Essential reading for lovers of 18th-century literature

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• Audiobook — Professionally narrated, complete and unabridged. Available on Audible, Spotify, Apple Books.

A must-have edition for readers who appreciate razor-sharp wit and the enduring power of poetic satire.

About the Author

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest prose stylists in the English language. Best known for Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal, Swift used irony, parody, and savage humor to critique politics, religion, and human nature. His poetry, though less celebrated than his prose, reveals the same brilliance, moral force, and unflinching insight into the absurdities of society.