Jonathan Swift

The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett

As a late Augustan, Jones is skilled in the styles of more than one distinguished male predecessor, and confidently invites comparison with them. Her most famous poem today is the first in the volume, An...

Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer , Swift , Elizabeth Barrett , Elizabeth Bishop , Geoffrey Bateson , and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick . The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka esque) exemplifies...

The Debutante is set in an unnamed city on 1 May 1934. Its title character is an unnamed young woman who narrates in the first person and begins her narrative by announcing: When I was...

This, like Good Behaviour, is a black comedy set in a crumbling Anglo-Irishbig house, Durraghglass. Unlike Good Behaviour it sets its protagonist family (of the same generation as Aroon St Charles) in...

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

Schaw's narrative falls into four parts, corresponding to different stages in her travels. In the first she crosses the Atlantic to the Caribbean. The others cover Antigua and St Kitts, North Carolina, and...

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 (...

The title-page quotes the passage in Swift 's Gulliver's Travels where the King of Brobdingnag hears from Gulliver about English politics and marvels that human grandeur can be mimicked by such contemptible insects. The...

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...

US reviews were good. C. J. Rolo in the Atlantic Monthly called the book a scorching indictment of a hierarchical society, predicting that the blandly devastating satire will especially regale those well versed in the...

According to a delighted Hervey, Pope was infuriated. Swift thought the Verses were badly written. Montagu's granddaughter Lady Louisa Stuart thought that for high-born writers to jeer at Pope's family was shameful. On the whole...

Reviewers in general were impressed. The Gentleman's Magazine (which printed an excerpt in February) noted that this work was Swiftian in style, although by a lady. The Critical gave it a paragraph...

The Monthly Review was moderately laudatory about the Art of Tormenting; it picked up on the relationship to Swift .JC 's commonplace-book commented wryly on a man who declared that...

HM was much praised for this pamphlet as soon as her authorship was known. Porteus wrote to her as if to Mrs Chip, the author's wife, with the conceit that the pamphlet would make Chip...