Jonathan Swift

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.

Today DM 's stock is high, but she is less studied than many of her contemporaries. Her choice of genres and her close involvement with the political and other affairs of her time make her...

LP 's work was included in Poems by Eminent Ladies, 1755. But it was also traduced in catchpenny publications like The Celebrated Mrs. Pilkington's Jests; or, The Cabinet of Wit and Humour, 1759...

This poem was considered one of CC 's best works. It was praised by Mary Russell Mitford , and George Saintsbury noted its originality (though the passage on the dead wit and writer searching...

Love in Excess, with its arguably six editions by 1725, has repeatedly been likened to Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe and Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels as bestselling English fictions before Pamela. It has never shared their status, partly...

She trod a fine line as to the expression of her own feelings, for if the courtship should not end in marriage, she would have compromised her reputation. She converts this restriction into a rhetorical...

One common element shared by DM 's writing in different genres (plays, fiction, non-fiction) is its targeted sensationalim and deliberate artistic excess. Another is its partisan political content. Swift , who approved her very generous...

She had rich material to draw from because her father, John Sinclair (1754-1835), was an unusually accomplished man who was very active in public life. Most notably, he conceived and undertook the publication of The...

Her editor Elizabeth Mavor , however, prints a late poem (which MC herself called jingling doggerel), written for a family magazine produced by some young nephews and nieces, which is anything but sapless in...

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...

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...