The works of Jonathan Swift in prose and verse so mutually illustrate

each other, that it was deemed indispensable, as a complement to the

standard edition of the Prose Works, to issue a revised edition of the

Poems, freed from the errors which had been allowed to creep into the

text, and illustrated with fuller explanatory notes. My first care,

therefore, in preparing the Poems for publication, was to collate them

with the earliest and best editions available, and this I have done.