Jonathan Swift

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,

Fidelia's response is flippant, racy, and Swift ian in style. Her first joke is to adopt a professional or hard-headed tone, entirely at odds with the invitation to write solemn devotional verse. She complains that...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...