Jonathan Swift

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...

The unnamed male narrator describes himself as a foreigner, but has lived in London long enough to be mistaken for an Englishman. In the end he reveals himself to be an inhabitant of Japan...

AF 's novel The Mistress of Lilliput; or, The Pursuit is both a kind of prequel and sequel to Swift 's Gulliver's Travels.

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.

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 explains that having waited four months for Swift to answer her marriage proposal—still in love with him, having rejected other suitors for his sake, admiring his power of raillery, forgiving his harshness to women...

Fidelia defends herself against the suspicion of being a male in disguise: I feign my name, but not my sex. She keeps up the fantasy of her love for Swift , assuring...

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...

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...

Any relation to Jonathan Swift 's A Tale of a Tub is indirect and inexplicit. The tub in this case is the working tool of Jeannette, stocking-mender, launderer, and cousin of du Barry (who herself...

CG was a friend from their adolescence of the young women who became the poets Mary Barber and Laetitia Pilkington . Their shared friendship with Jonathan Swift has been an element in preserving some memory...

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...