Jonathan Swift

Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes. She was entering a debate previously carried on among such...

MR 's own twenty poems include prefatory verses as editor, written for the occasion. She prints work by the late Henrietta O'Neill (the well-known Ode to the Poppy), Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (St...

EB offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre (her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood (though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn , and Delarivier Manley , whom she calls the...

In March Fidelia to Sylvanus Urban had presented a literary defence of Jonathan Swift (whose poems about women, Fidelia argued, were not misogynist but aimed at reforming individuals) and an elaborate joke about her secretly-cherished...

Greg Gatanby included FH 's poem Invocation in his Whales: A Celebration, 1983. This anthology comprises excerpts from literature, legends, myths, religions, and poetry from around the world. Among others included are Jonathan Swift

DM took over from Swift as editor (that is in practice as writer) of The Examiner (first series) with number 46.

The occasion for this six-penny pamphlet was de Guiscard 's trial for attempted murder of the Prime Minister, Robert Harley . Swift wrote the first page and DMcook'd it into completion.

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

The Modern Poet, published in MD 's Works, 1725, is a highly satirical poem in Swift 's scatological manner, which directs against a male satirical butt the familiar charges of being lewd and...

MB composed On sending my Son, as a Present, to Dr. Swift , Dean of St. Patrick's on his birthday.

MK collaborated with Lang (though she is not formally credited as co-author) on at least one other publication, The Blue Fairy Book, with which in 1889 he and his wife, Leonora , launched a...

A few of MD 's letters had already reached print: those to Swift in 1766 and those to Frances Hamilton in 1820. Lady Llanover was an extremely meticulous editor, who nevertheless felt it incumbent...

ES 's I Live under a Black Sun appeared: generally called a novel, it relates a modern version of some events in the life of Jonathan Swift , and has something of an idiosyncratic biography...

Somebody signing Swift 's name, possibly MB herself, addressed to Queen Caroline a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage.

LDG made a foray into fiction with her translation of Léon de Wailly 's Stella and Vanessa, a French novel based on Jonathan Swift 's life.