Jonathan Swift

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

Her adult apprenticeship was less auspicious. Early in her marriage she antagonised her husband by outshining him when Swift set them to compete at translating odes by Horace . Shortly before her departure, alone, for...

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.

This essay includes elements of fiction and reportage. It both exemplifies and defends the colourful and linguistically distinct qualities of Irish lower-class speech, pointing out that for these speakers English is their second language. (This...

Against the trend of the times, RS aimed for historical interest rather than literary canonicity, compiling in his Specimens of the Later English Poets a collection of representative voices rather than a garland: The taste...

Each apology begins with a cliché like To tell you the truth—, or Don't mind me, dear—. One point of the joke (as in Swift 's Polite Conversation, 1738) is the flatness and inadequacy...

One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior , Swift , and Pope , the lesser-known men John Scott , William Broome , and Nathaniel Cotton , and...

Here she extols Delany 's virtues in the voice of the goddess who hates and resents them (and who is presumed to be behind the recent attacks on Delany stemming from his friendship with Swift)...