On the occasion of Hermann J. Real s seventy-fifth birthday, this collection honours a scholar whose contagious curiosity has been dedicated to the study of Jonathan Swift s life and works for the past four decades. The contributions cover multiple aspects of the Dean s writings as well as a number of eighteenth-century contexts. They not only celebrate the Director of the Ehrenpreis Centre at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster, the Editor of the annual Swift Studies, and the convener of six international Munster symposia on the Dean of St Patrick s, but they also pay...