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Swift, Jonathan8
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)4
Dean Swift3
King, William (1685-1763)1
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)1
Pope, Alexander1
Dawson, William Poet1
Arbuthnot, John1
Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)1
Atterbury, Francis1

Title: A poem of Dean Swift's copied from a lady's transcript

Author: Swift, Jonathan

Attribution: Dean Swift

Date(s): 1730 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 12

Contents: Witty self-deprecatory apology to Lady Carteret, wife of the Lord Lieutenant

of Ireland, for failing to fulfil a dinner engagement, telling how she in turn

found his lifesyle difficult to bear on visiting him

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Title: Lady Acheson weary of Dean Sw--t

Author: Swift, Jonathan

Date(s): 1728 ?

Manuscript: Lt 9

Contents: Lighthearted satire by Swift against himself, put into the mouth of Lady

Acheson, making out she is tired of his visit to her house, Market Hill

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A cure for the hip : containing miscellaneous poems and translations, on variety of entertaining subjects, and some on remarkable occasions,... With a genuine letter of Bp. Atterbury's, verses by D-n Sw-t, &c. Publish'd from the original that came out of a lady's library, by a gentleman of the Temple

Dawson, William poet; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732)

1748

Anonymous. By William Dawson. D-n Sw-t = Dean Swift. First published in [1734] as 'Miscellaneous poems on several occasions'. The bookseller's name is a pseudonym. Apparently a reissue or a ne...

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A supplement to Dr. Swift's and Mr. Pope's works : containing I. Miscellanies, by Dr. Arbuthnot. II. Several pieces, by Dr. Swift and Mr. Pope. III. Poems on several occasions. Now first collected into one vol

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)

1739

"This volume contains all the pieces in verse and prose published by Dr. Swift and Mr. Pope in their miscellanies, which are not printed in Mr. Faulkner's edition of the Dean's Works in six volumes, o...

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The dreamer

King, William (1685-1763); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

1754

First edition. Two page book-list at end. A footnote on p. 81-89 includes "The Answer, by Dr. Swift", a poem described as "never... published in any edition of the Dean's works". The answer is to ...

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Title: Verses writ on window at Lord Cartarets

Author: Swift, Jonathan

Attribution: Dean Swift

Date(s): 1725

Manuscript: Lt q 20

Contents: Witty verses on being made to wait for admission to Dublin Castle, when Lord

Carteret was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Followed by an answer.

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Title: A song

Author: Swift, Jonathan

Attribution: Dean Swift

Date(s): 1733

Manuscript: Lt 72

Contents: Parody of a conventional love song, invoking numerous classical Greek gods

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