Jonathan Swift

(1667-1745)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 NRA: Swift Jonathan (1667-1745) Dean of St Patrick's Dublin Satirist DNB: Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745), writer and dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin LBT ID: JoSwift1745 VIAF ID: 14777110 LOC ID: n78096912	B/BAP: 1667-11-30 DIED: 1745-10-19
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Dean of St Patrick's, Scriblerian satirist, and author of Battle of the Books with Tale of a Tub (1704), Drapier Letters (1724), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729).
REFERENCES TO Jonathan Swift: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, July 1803 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to George Ellis, [November? 1805] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 26 February 1808 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Lady Louisa Stuart, 16 June 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 illiam Hazlitt sen. to the Editor of the Monthly Repository; [July 1808] in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 8 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 8 October 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharp, 30 December 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Skinner Matthews to Miss I. M., 22 May 1809 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 7 Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 6 August 1809 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 2 March 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Roscoe to Sir Philip Francis, [June 1810] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 4 April 1812 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 11 Walter Scott to John Ballantyne, 18 May 1813 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to John Murray, 6 January 1814 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 24 July 1814 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 8 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 February 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 28 October 1816 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 3 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 27 November 1816 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 2 Grahame, James, 1790-1842, Two Letters (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 12 Walter Scott to Robert Southey, 9 May 1817 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 14 October 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 10 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1: ¶ 22 John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 29 May 1822 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 5 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Lamb to Walter Wilson, 24 February 1823 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir Walter Scott to Maria Edgeworth, 22 September 1823 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Verse 1: p. 307c Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter V Found 2: ¶ ¶ Southern Henry (1799-1853), “Personal Character of Lord Byron” in London Magazine 10 (October 1824) 337-47 Found 1: ¶ 20 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Lord Byron” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 17 (February 1825) 131-51 Found 1: ¶ 53 Hodgson, Francis, 1781-1852, “Biography. Rev. Robert Bland” in Literary Gazette (23 April 1825) 725-26 Found 1: ¶ 10 Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 26 April 1827 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 3: ¶ 28 ¶ 74 ¶ 110 Mr. Keats. With a Criticism on his Writings. Found 1: ¶ 11 Mr. Horace Smith. Found 1: ¶ 11 First Prose; The Weekly Messenger; The News. Found 1: ¶ 94 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. II. 1752-1761 Found 1: ¶ 15 Ch. VII. 1771-1776 Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch. VIII. 1771-1776 Found 1: ¶ 2 [Henry Southern], “Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron” in London Magazine NS 10 (February 1828) 211-33 Found 1: ¶ 10 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Quarterly Review 37 (March 1828) 402-26 Found 1: ¶ 60 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Blackwood's Magazine 23 (March 1828) 362-408 Found 1: ¶ 62 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 13 October 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 30 October 1828 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ 11 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 15 Life of Byron: 1809 Found 3: ¶ 53 ¶ n1 ¶ n2 Life of Byron: 1811 Found 2: ¶ 21 ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1812 Found 2: ¶ 33 ¶ n2 Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 18 Life of Byron: 1814 Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1815 Life of Byron: 1819 Found 1: ¶ 86 Life of Byron: 1820 Life of Byron: 1821 Found 5: ¶ 8 ¶ 11 ¶ 19 ¶ 7 ¶ 3 Life of Byron: 1822 Life of Byron: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 22 Life of Byron: 1824 Found 2: ¶ n1 ¶ n1 “Moore’s Notices of Lord Byron” in Monthly Magazine NS 9 (February 1830) 183-97 Found 1: ¶ 4 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 81 [Charles Wentworth Dilke?], “The Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt” in The Athenaeum (4 September 1830) 552-55 Found 1: ¶ 38 “[Millingen’s Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece]” in Literary Gazette (18 December 1830) 814-15 Found 1: ¶ 7 Julius Millingen, Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece (London: John Rodwell, 1831) Chapter XII Found 1: ¶ 10 [John Gibson Lockhart], “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Quarterly Review 44 (January 1831) 168-226 Found 1: ¶ 131 “Moore’s Memoirs of Byron” in La Belle Assemblée NS 13 (January 1831) 72-99 Found 1: ¶ 34 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt [Concluded]” in The Tatler 2 (15 January 1831) 457-58 Found 1: ¶ 4 “Lord Byron” in Monthly Review NS 1 (February 1831) 217-37 Found 1: ¶ 65 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 91 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 3: ¶ 22 ¶ 25 ¶ 32 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 19 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 17 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XI. 1809-1810 Chapter XIX. 1825-1827 Found 2: ¶ 21 ¶ 22 Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, 11 February [1834] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 James Hamilton Browne, “Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron, and Visit to the Seat of War in Greece” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 35 (August 1834) 56-67 Found 1: ¶ 11 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1805 Chapter V 1808 Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter VI 1808-09 Chapter VIII 1810 Chapter XII 1811-12 Chapter II 1813 Chapter III 1814 Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ 10 Chapter II 1817 Chapter IX 1819 Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter I 1820 Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter XI 1823 Verse 1: p. 307c Chapter XII 1824 Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter II 1825 Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 14 ¶ 19 ¶ n1 Chapter I 1826-27 Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter IV 1828 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter VII 1830-31 Found 1: ¶ 15 Chapter XII Found 1: ¶ 3 Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 22 October 1845 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 6 Thomas Bablington Macaulay to Catharine Amelia Smith, 1847 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Byron and his Friends Found 1: ¶ 3 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. III” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (May 1847) 38-48 Found 1: ¶ 64 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XI” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (January 1848) 14-20 Found 1: ¶ 9 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. I. 1791-93 Found 1: ¶ 31 Ch. IX. 1802-03 Ch. XI. 1804-1805 Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Brougham to Samuel Rogers, [16 July 1850] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 11: Periodical Press Found 1: ¶ 6 Ch. 11: Canning Found 1: ¶ 10 Ch. 7: W. H. Pyne Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. 14: The Past Found 2: ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Ch. 11: Bulwer-Lytton Found 1: ¶ 10 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III R. Plumer Ward XXIII Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ n1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 31 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter XVIII. Found 1: ¶ 22 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 13 Found 1: ¶ 49 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter IX Found 3: ¶ 6 ¶ 29 ¶ 39 Chapter XVI Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter XXIV Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter XXXVII Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 2 Found 1: ¶ 31 Chapter X Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 15 Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter XIII Found 1: ¶ 11 Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 11 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XII 1808 Found 1: ¶ 12 Ch. XVII 1820 Ch. XVIII Found 2: ¶ 12 ¶ 21 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VII. 1806-1811 Found 1: ¶ 18 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Leigh Hunt James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter I. 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(John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter IV: 1816 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Preface Found 1: ¶ 2 XI. Byron and Augusta