Jonathan Swift

Henry Nevinson , however, judged this to be Sharp's greatest book, worthy of comparison with Swift 's Gulliver's Travels or Samuel Butler 's Erewhon. Harold Laski , too, admired it.

She was just as insecure about her style and presentation in letters as in her journal, and elicited reassuring praise from Pope , Prior, Swift , Lord Orrery , and Lord Lansdowne .Prior

Swift also, like his erstwhile allies Addison and Steele , was spurred by DM 's example to consternation over women's growing political activity. Though he was personally her friend, Swift undoubtedly aimed partly at her...

She did not forget her literary plans and ambitions. She had already, in her teens, subscribed to the new and influential magazine Anthologia Hibernica. Now, helping to clear out a house in Dublin which...

Lorna Sage noted that South America is an apt setting for this novel, since the essays and stories of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges show a similar blending of the fantastical and the documentary (...

Grierson wrote this for print, to celebrate her friendship with Barber, and to predict the latter's success. The version printed in the volume shows very careful revision since Grierson's draft copy, with a new, dignified...

Her own title makes her own poem an answer to one of Swift 's most notorious productions. In a brilliant pastiche of his own stylistic habits and his scatological gusto, Montagu represents him as an...

Begun in order to help the work of a female student, this work reiterates more strongly EE 's plea for opening the arena of scholarship to women. For examples of poetic practice she turns to...

Elstob probably succeeded in modifying Swift 's views: he later adopted some of hers.Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of this publication.

These are serious poems which engage unblinkingly with the perplexities of the human condition. The intricate, highly visual title-poem juxtaposes two views of human lives: one of people as distant and tiny, one as close...

Battier wrote most of this poem in stanzas composed of six iambic pentameters: an unusual metre for her, and one she does not stay in without lapses which may be intentional. Before the last passage...

SB 's next novel, Tous les hommes sont mortels, 1946 (translated into English as All Men Are Mortal, 1954), features, like Woolf 's Orlando, a protagonist who is immortal, living on from...

In her usual formal style, which she does not adapt to the more usual conventions of epistolarity, she says it would be useless for her to give Winthrop the current domestic, and commercial intelligence,

In print ER 's play was accompanied by a preface written in the voice of a young-Turk satirist. It is a piece that could hardly have appeared at this date under a woman's name, and...

A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace , Swift , and Coleridge