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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 337–338.
Published: 01 June 1942
... all, the prophecy of the Bishop of Carlisle in Richard II comes true. Future ages do groan because of the otherwise justifiable dethrone- ment of Richard. BRENTSSTIRLINC University of Washington The Reputation of Jonathan Swift, 1781-1882...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 493–495.
Published: 01 December 1968
... but for the “knowledgeable” who can appreciate the “promenade parmi les. personnages et les sentiments mis en cause dam cet univers de comMie ” PAULSAINTONCE Mount Holyoke College Jonathan Swift as a Tory Pamphleteer. By RICHARDI. COOK.Seattle...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 328–329.
Published: 01 June 1941
..., the re- sults of his researches will be valuable to a large number of scholars. HELEKEMAXWELL HOOKER IV es t w o od, L 0s A rtg el es .Tonathart Swift and IYomen. By JosEPIi MANCH. University of Buffalo Studies, Vol. XVI, No. 4, February, 1941. Pp...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (4): 383–384.
Published: 01 December 1959
... the location referred to by Piscator) was the published writer and dramatist, Thomas Preston, author of 1569). Cambises ( ARTHURM. COON Michigarc State University Jonathan Swift and the Age of Compromise. By KATHLEENWILLIAMS. Law...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 118–120.
Published: 01 March 1949
... are given solid and extensive proof of the currency of these ideas in the poetry written between 1725 and 1750. RICHARDC. BOYS University of Michigan The Satire of Jonathan SzeFift. By HERBERTDAVIS. New York: Mac- millan Company, 1947. Pp. ix + 109...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 105–106.
Published: 01 March 1952
.... WILLIAMR. PARKER New York University 77re Sin of Wit: Jonathan Swift as n Poet. By MAURICEJOHNSON. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1950. Pp. 145. $2.50. Perhaps no comparable body of literature has been as consistently neglected as the poems of Jonathan Swift. Despite...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (4): 507.
Published: 01 December 1946
...Evan K. Gibson Louis A. Landa and James Edward Tobin. New York: Cosmopolitan Science and Art Service Co., Inc., 1945. Pp. 62. $1.25. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Evan K. Gibsorz 507 Jonathan Smit: A List of Critical Studies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 191–204.
Published: 01 June 1943
...J. H. Neumann © 1943 University of Washington 1943 JONATHAN SWIFT AND THE VOCABULARY OF ENGLISH By J. H. NEUMANN Next to Johnson, the most important literary figure of the eight- eenth century to concern himself...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (3): 275–279.
Published: 01 September 1989
... of Jonathan Swift’s writing. Playing on the pun by which uested may mean, on the one hand, authorized or empowered (as in language that is 276 REVIEWS stably and immanently meaningful) and, on the other, clothed or covered (as in language...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 19–48.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Ashley Marshall Most modern scholars have taken for granted that Henry Fielding admired and sought to emulate the great “Scriblerian” satirists we consider the titans of their age. That Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Gay exerted a major influence on his development is a critical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 245–273.
Published: 01 September 2022
... by University of Washington 2022 eccentricity Edith Sitwell Jonathan Swift temporality queer studies For my own part I wish we could skip a generation—skip Edith & Gertrude & Tom & Joyce & Virginia & come out in the open again, when everything has been re started [ sic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (3): 208–221.
Published: 01 September 1954
...Walter J. Ong, S.J. © 1954 University of Washington 1954 SWIFT ON THE MIND : THE MYTH OF ASEPSIS By WALTERJ. ONG,S.J. It is with Jonathan Swift as it is with most essayists whose pro- nouncements spring from impulses more strategic than scientific...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Ashley Marshall Swift and Others . By Rawson Claude . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . xiii + 301 pp. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 Swift and Others , accurately titled, is more a collection of essays than a monograph on Jonathan Swift...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 493–516.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Ian Campbell Ross University of Washington 2007 Ian Campbell Ross is a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. His books include a coedited collection, Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745 (1998), and Laurence Sterne: A Life...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (3): 246–256.
Published: 01 September 1974
... was built up of conversations or speeches of char- acters whose distinctness is not questioned: “my special Friends” (73-134), “My good Companions” (143-64), the doctors (169-76), Lady John Middleton Murry, Jonathan Swift: A Critical Biography (London, 1954), pp. 454-59; Maurice Johnson...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (4): 403–411.
Published: 01 December 1979
..., 1978. xvii + 285 pp. $17.50. Thomas Lockwood. Post-Augustan Satire: Charles Churchill and Satirical Poetry, 1 750-1 800 . Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1979. 198 pp. $17.50. Clive T. Probyn. Jonathan Swift: The Contempora Background . New York: Harper 8c Row, Barnes & Noble...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (1): 31–41.
Published: 01 March 1963
... the audience an author has in mind, the more easily he will be able to choose those arguments most likely to persuade. In attempting to ascertain the audience toward which Jonathan Swift directed the political tracts he composed on behalf of the Harley-St. John ministry, it is to the works...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 103–105.
Published: 01 March 1952
... Milton back into traditions which he well knew when to ignore, when to follow, and when to transcend. WILLIAMR. PARKER New York University 77re Sin of Wit: Jonathan Swift as n Poet. By MAURICEJOHNSON. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (4): 381–383.
Published: 01 December 1959
... institution with wardens only a dozen miles from the location referred to by Piscator) was the published writer and dramatist, Thomas Preston, author of 1569). Cambises ( ARTHURM. COON Michigarc State University Jonathan Swift...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (1): 111–134.
Published: 01 March 1965
... recent books on Swift which provide valuable biographical commentary are: Ricardo Quintana, Swift: An Introduction (London, 1955); Bertrand A. Goldgar, The Curse of Party (Lincoln, Neb., 1961); Oliver W. Ferguson, Jonathan Swift and Ireland (Urbana, 1962). JAMES L. CLIFFORD...