Jonathan Swift - Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745), Irish writer and satirist. Jonathan Swift was born on November 30 1667 (after his father's death) to English parents, and educated by his Uncle Godwin. After a not very successful career at Trinity College, Dublin, he went to stay with his mother, Abigail Erick, at Leicester. Soon afterwards an opening to working for Sir William Temple presented itself . In 1689 Swift went to live at Moor Park, Surrey, where he read to Temple, wrote for him, and kept his accounts. Growing into confidence with his employer, he "was often trusted with matters of great importance." Within three years of their acquaintance, Temple had introduced his secretary to William III, and sent him to London to urge.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Jonathan Livingston Seagull Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a novel by Richard Bach. On the surface it appears to be a simple animal fable about a seagull learning how to become the greatest flyer of all time. Deeper analysis, however, shows that, just as more traditional animal fables once were, the book is really a homiletic about self-perfection and self-sacrifice. In 1970, Richard Bach, a distant relative of composer Johann Sebastian Bach, published Jonathan Livingston Seagull -- a story. It first became a firm favourite on American university campuses. From this base, the book rapidly gained in popularity. By the end of 1972, over a million copies were in print, the Reader's Digest had published a condensed version and the book reached the top of the New.
J. Lumsden and Son - of the earliest to engage in the practice of releasing the same book under multiple-covers to increase sales, this practice has now meant that books published by Lumsden are highly collectible. Partial list of books published by Lumsden: 1812 - Peter Williamson, The life and curious adventures of Peter Williamson 1812 - anon, Nurse Dandlem 1815 - Jonathan Swift, The adventures of Captain Gulliver in a voyage to Lilliput 1816 - anon, Fun Upon Fun 1818 - Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, Beauty and the beast 1845 - Joseph Train, An Historical and Statistical Account of the Isle of Man Bibliography Roscoe, S., and Brimmell, R. A., James Lumsden and Son of Glasgow. Their Juvenile Books and Chapbooks, Private Libraries Association, 1981.
John Gay - task in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of Ambrose Philips, who had been praised by The Guardian, to the neglect of Pope's claims as the first pastoral writer of the age and the true English Theocritus. Gay's pastorals completely achieved this goal, but his ludicrous pictures of the English country lads and their loves were found to be entertaining on their own account. Gay had just been appointed secretary to the British ambassador to the court of Hanover through the influence of Jonathan Swift when the death of Queen Anne three months later put an end to all his hopes of official employment. In 1715, probably with some help from Pope, he produced What d'ye call it?, a dramatic skit on contemporary tragedy, with special reference to Thomas Otway's Venice.
Joseph Addison - for the diplomatic service, and travelled widely in Europe, all the time writing and studying politics. His poem, The Campaign, celebrating the Battle of Blenheim, won him preferment, and by 1705 he was an under-secretary of state in the government of Halifax. He became MP for Malmesbury in his home county of Wiltshire in 1708, and was shortly afterwards sent to Ireland, where he encountered Jonathan Swift and remained for a year. Subsequently, he helped found the Kitcat Club, and renewed his association with Steele. They founded The Spectator together in 1711, and began a successful second career as a dramatist. In 1716, he married the countess of Warwick, and his political career continued to flourish, as he served Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 1717 to 1718. However,.
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville - famous for his death in the Revenge. The family of Carteret was settled in the Channel Islands, and was of Norman descent. John Carteret was educated at Westminster School, and at Christ Church, Oxford. Jonathan Swift says that "with a singularity scarce to be justified he carried away more Greek, Latin and philosophy than properly became a person of his rank". Throughout life Carteret not only showed a keen love of the classics, but a taste for, and a knowledge of, modern languages and literatures. He was almost the only Englishman of his time who knew German. Harte, the author of the Life of Gustavus Adolphus, acknowledged the aid which Carteret had given him. On October 17 1710 Carteret married at Longleat Lady Frances Worsley, grand-daughter of the first Viscount Weymouth..
John Arbuthnot - Scotland. Around 1700, Arbuthnot published his Essay on the usefulness of mathematical learning. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1704. He was called in to provide medical care for Prince George of Denmark, and in 1705 he was made physician extraordinary to Queen Anne. Along with friends Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and John Gay, Arbuthnot was a member of the Scriblerus Club, formed to satire the abuses of learning. Arbuthnot is best remembered for his 1712 "John Bull" pamphlets, which satirized the Whig war party. Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot'' was written to him..
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery - of Orrery (13 January 1707 - 16 November 1762), was a writer and a friend of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson. The only son of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, he was born at Westminster and attended Christ Church, Oxford. He published a translation of the letters of Pliny the Younger in 1751, and Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift in the same year, and the Memoirs of Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth. His Letters from Italy was published in 1774 by J. Duncombe. He was was married twice, and succeeded as Earl of Cork by his son Hamilton, who died in 1764 and passed the earldom to John's next son, Edmund. { border="2" align="center" - width="30%" align="center"Preceded by: Richard Boyle width="40%" align="center"Earl of Cork.
John Forster - of which were republished in two volumes of Biographical and Historical Essays (1858). In 1848 appeared his admirable Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith (revised 1854). Continuing his researches into English history under the early Stuarts, he published in 1860 the Arrest of the Five Members by Charles I: a Chapter of English History rewritten, and The Debates on the Grand Remonstrance, with an Introductory Essay on English Freedom. These were followed by his Sir John Eliot: a Biography (1864), elaborated from one of his earlier studies for the Lives of Eminent British Statesmen. In 1868 appeared his Life of Landor, and, on the death of his friend Alexander Dyce, Forster undertook the publication of his third edition of Shakespeare. For several years he had been collecting materials for a life.
Infinite monkey theorem - Congress; a popular retelling says that the monkeys would eventually type Shakespeare's plays. (The word dactylographic appears in the English translation of Borel's book, and seems to be an Anglicization of a French word for typewriting, but in English, dactylography means the study of fingerprints.) There need not be infinitely many monkeys; a single monkey who executes infinitely many keystrokes suffices. The literary notion may have its origin in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, part 3, chapter 5, in which a professor of the Grand Academy of Lagado is attempting to create a complete list of all knowledge of science by having his students constantly create random strings of letters by turning cranks on a mechanism. In Inflexible Logic by Russell Maloney, a short story that appeared in the New Yorker in.
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - is administered by Dublin City public libraries. 2003 - Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Read Others Short Listed: Dennis Bock, The Ash Garden Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit Per Olov Enquist, The Royal Physician's Visit Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections Lidia Jorge, The Migrant Painter of Birds John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun Ann Patchett, Bel Canto 2002 - Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles (Atomized) Others Short Listed: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai Carlos Fuentes, The Years with Laura Diaz Antoni Libera, Madame 2001 - Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief Others Short Listed: Margaret Cezair-Thompson , The True History of Paradise Silvia Molina, The Love You Promised Me Andrew O'Hagan, Our.
Irish poetry - outsider to follow. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Earliest Irish Poetry 2 Medieval/Early Modern 2.1 Bardic Poetry 2.2 Metrical Dindshenchus 2.3 The Poems of Fionn 2.4 The Kildare Poems 2.5 Spenser and Ireland 3 The 18th Century 3.6 Gaelic Songs: the End of an Order 3.7 Cúirt An Mheán Óiche 3.8 Swift and Goldsmith 4 The 19th Century 4.9 Irishing English 4.10 Folk Songs and Poems 4.11 The Celtic Revival 5 The 20th Century 5.12 Yeats and Modernism 5.13 After Yeats: Clarke, Higgins, Colum 5.14 Irish Modernism 5.15 Poetry in De Valera's Ireland 5.16 Poetry in Irish 5.17 The Northern School 5.18 Experiment 5.19 Outsiders 5.20 Women Poets 6 Irish Poetry Now 7 External Links The Earliest Irish Poetry Poetry in Irish represents the oldest vernacular poetry in Europe. The.
Irish literature - language represents a more or less unbroken tradition from the 6th century to the present day. However, since at least the 14th century, poetry in English has also been written in Ireland and by Irish writers abroad. During the late middle ages, the breakdown of the old Gaelic order that had supported the old professional bards broke down, and Irish language poetry started to become marginalised and by the 19th century had entered the realms of folk art. The 18th century witnessed both a late flowering of bardic poetry and song and the first major Irish poets in English, Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith. In the 19th century, Irish poets writing in English set out to reinvent the Gaelic tradition in the new language, frequently translating bardic and other early Irish.
Irish fiction - of Irish fiction written in English. For Irish fiction written in Irish, see Modern literature in Irish. For a general overview of Irish writing in all genres, see Irish literature. The 18th Century Irish fiction can be said to begin with the publication in 1726 of Jonathan Swift's masterpiece Gulliver's Travels. This novel, often treated as a book for children, is one of the most savage satires in the English language and set the highest possible standard for Irish writers to come. The next Irish novelist of importance was Laurence Sterne (1713-1768). Stern was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary and was in his mid-forties when he published The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen (1759-1767). This satire on the biographical novel is one of the most innovative and influential novels.
Hertford College, Oxford - Hertford was one of the first five co-educational colleges in the university. Famous Former Students John Donne John Meade Falkner Charles James Fox Thomas Hobbes Gavin Maxwell Max Nicholson Peter Pears Henry Pelham Jonathan Swift William Tyndale Evelyn Waugh Byron White Academics/Teachers External Link Official website.
Yehuda Halevi - of Saragossa, the aged poet Judah ben Abun, Judah ibn Ghayyat of Granada, Moses ibn Ezra and his brothers Judah, Joseph, and Isaac, the vizier Abu al-Ḥasan, Meïr ibn Kamnial, the physician and poet Solomon ben Mu'allam of Seville, and Samuel ha-Nagid of Malaga, besides his schoolmates Joseph ibn Migas and Baruch Albalia. He was associated also with the grammarian Abraham ibn Ezra.In Cordova Judah addressed a touching farewell poem to Joseph ibn Ẓaddiḳ, the philosopher and poet. In Egypt, where the most celebrated men vied with one another in entertaining him, his reception was a veritable triumph. Here his particular friends were Aaron ben Jeshua Alamani in Alexandria, the nagid Samuel ben Hananiah in Cairo ("Monatsschrift," xl. 417 et seq.), Ḥalfon ha-Levi in Damietta, and an unknown man in Tyre,.
Houyhnhnm - a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satiric Gulliver's Travels. The name can be pronounced Whin-hin-ems, as if 'whinny' were linked to the -nym element of, for example, 'synonym'. Some of Jonathan Swift's dark vision affects the subtext of the movies Planet of the Apes..
Giantess - leader of the Feminist movement, the emergence of the giantess symbol may not be coincidental. The giantess appears occasionally in later European literature. Charles Baudelaire, in his poetic cycle "Les Fleurs du Mal" (1861) presents the giant woman as a powerfully erotic symbol: "Once, when Nature's overpowering vigorousness Conceived each day children this monstrous I would love to have lived with a young giantess Around her feet like a cat to a queen voluptuous. Would love to have seen the spirit that grew out of her Distending as she played her terrible game From the damp mist that swam in her eyes to wonder If her sullen heart would catch into flames." In contrast to this, "A Voyage to Brobdingnag", the second part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), describes the.
Gulliver's Travels - a work of fiction pseudonymously authored by the British satirist Jonathan Swift. Posing as "Dr. Lemuel Gulliver", he purported to report his travels to a series of strange cultures. This mimicked a style of travel reporting that was common at the time, including the outright invention of outlandish and "savage" cultures deliberately designed to shock Englishmen in particular. "Travels into Several Remote nations of the World by 'English sea-captain Lemuel Gulliver'", or Gulliver's Travels is sometimes perceived as a story for children. It is generally thought to be concerned with Lemuel Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput and Blefuscu, where the protagonist is surrounded by people 6 inches tall (15 cm). This, however, is a supreme irony since this overlooks the fact that this is one of the most coruscating satires on morals.
Fictional country - are not located in a normal atlas. Later similar tales often took place on fictional planets. Jonathan Swift's protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver, visited various strange places. Edgar Rice Burroughs placed adventures of Tarzan in areas in Africa that, at the time, were mostly unexplored. Isolated islands with strange creatures and/or customs were popular in these authors' times. When Western explorers had surveyed most of the Earth's surface, this option was lost. Thereafter utopian and dystopian societies have been usually placed on other planets, whether in human colonies in our Solar system or in societies on fictional planets orbiting other stars. Superhero and agent comicss and some thrillers also use fictional countries as backdrops. Most of these countries exist only for a single story, TV series episode or an issue of comic book..
