Jonathan Swift

The opening poem, Nothing New, situates the anxieties of authors in regard to critics in the tradition of anxieties of lovers: both are right to be anxious. The contents include an English translation of...

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...

Her poem to Lord Carteret concerns a work probably by Swift . The publication addressed to Lady Carteret (actually consisting of one poem to her and one to her daughter) shows a strong sense of...

LMWM 's lampoon on Swift appeared as an anonymous folio, The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room. A Poem.

She remained attentive to the patterns of violence against women, particularly sexual crimes and domestic violence. Lydia Becker did not like to ask her to write gratis for the Women's Suffrage Journal, but seems...

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

Raccoona's final story, Morality Meat (published in Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, edited by Jen Green and Sarah Lefanu , 1985), imagines a horrific world in which abortion is outlawed and...

In March Fidelia to Sylvanus Urban had presented a literary defence of Jonathan Swift (whose poems about women, Fidelia argued, were not misogynist but aimed at reforming individuals) and an elaborate joke about her secretly-cherished...

The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...

There was printed Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput, Written by Captain Gulliver; this was probably not by EH —but Pope (its target) thought it was.

ES 's I Live under a Black Sun appeared: generally called a novel, it relates a modern version of some events in the life of Jonathan Swift , and has something of an idiosyncratic biography...

This year EH published four new works or instalments of works. Besides these, Some Memoirs of the Amours and Intrigues of a Certain Irish Dean . . . not many Hundred Years since...

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

Her adult apprenticeship was less auspicious. Early in her marriage she antagonised her husband by outshining him when Swift set them to compete at translating odes by Horace . Shortly before her departure, alone, for...

The Modern Poet, published in MD 's Works, 1725, is a highly satirical poem in Swift 's scatological manner, which directs against a male satirical butt the familiar charges of being lewd and...