Jonathan Swift

The book's admirers included (perhaps embarrassingly) the courtesan Teresia Constantia Phillips , who praised it in her Memoirs.Jane Collier in her commonplace-book not only noted that Mrs Teachum has the Swift ian...

Richard Steele in the Tatler (number 10) praised Tonson's miscellany for collecting the best pastorals of the day. Around this same time, Swift wrote a poem celebrating AF for winning poetic fame in the...

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...

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...

This book made Yeats liken ES to Swift for her passion ennobled by intensity, by endurance, by wisdom. Her Times obituary called these poems Sitwell's The Waste Land, suggesting that despite her still...

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...

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...

MB was arrested and taken into custody, on Matthew Pilkington 's information, in connection with publishing a seditious poem by Swift .

MK had two distinct phases in her writing career. Between 1926 and 1961 she wrote, under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell, eleven novels and four plays. After almost twenty years of silence, she published...

Two months after her first Gentleman's Magazine verse, Fidelia proposed a more unusual prize for the poety contest: not money at all, but the hand of Swift in marriage.

Fidelia reappeared in the Gentleman's Magazine with To a young Gentleman who had a fine Genius for Poetry, but who upon reading Mr Pope 's and Dr Swift 's Works, declined writing.

The Morning Post published MR 's London's Summer Morning, a word-painting of city life in the tradition of Swift 's Description poems.