@futurebird
#NeuterTheWindsors
(Hat-tip to #JonathanSwift)

@chartier Sounds like a very “modest proposal” to me. #JonathanSwift

May you live every day of your life.
-- Jonathan Swift

⬆ #Quotes #JonathanSwift #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah

Even more fun was realizing how much better for it was a volume where we didn’t just submit individual essays but discussed among ourselves how we might ensure they gave our colleague something coherent as a whole and something worthwhile in its own right. It was a lovely reminder that while we might get strident at times (err, no, excuse me #JonathanSwift was absolutely not a #Jacobite, ever), those of us with an interest in the man, the politics, and the society of the time really do get on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal#:~:text=A%20Modest%20Proposal%20For%20preventing,by%20Jonathan%20Swift%20in%201729.

CW British colonialism /forced starvation

2. Put a content warning on any post that is tangentially related to the Irish Potato Famine.

#mastodonRules #JonathanSwift #EatYourChildren #satire #AModestProposal

Thought for the Day. #LyonStrategic #JonathanSwift

@craignewmark #JonathanSwift was at his absolute best on the subject of #BearingFalseWitness. A rare purely radical outing from him, with no underlying satire and no appeal to a reactionary or imagined past ideal. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_the_Rev._Jonathan_Swift/Volume_10/On_bearing_false_Witness.

The timing also represents a rare instance of him getting ahead of the debate.

Finally, it shows up the appalling hypocrisy of so many self-proclaimed Christians (especially of the evangelical persuasion).

Useless Quote for 22 Jan:

"There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice …"

~ Jonathan Swift, in The Examiner, No. 28 (Feb. 1710)

#UselessQuote #JonathanSwift

So I finally finished work on “Commanded by an angel from heaven,” an essay considering the difference between doctrine and practice as discussed by #JonathanSwift in his sermons, with a detour into #EivindBerggrav because, well, why not if one can? It should be appearing later this year or early next. I think there is a lot we still need to understand about practice in the C18 #ChurchofIreland quite apart from doctrine.

Last year, I considered the fascinating (to me, at least) question of why Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnell, #TheJocobiteDuchess, is buried in a resplendent tomb in #StPatrick'sCathedral, Dublin, and why #JonathanSwift, who should, in theory, have had good reason to prevent this (not least personal animosity against her sister and brother-in-law) likely welcomed it, even if discretion required him to hold his tongue. Here's the resulting paper: https://bit.ly/3IMx0ZA.

#introduction Hello. I am moving from one of the big instances. Currently, I am working on a biography of Nancy Sharp, a C20 English painter, but I am generally still most active writing about #JonathanSwift (one recent talk and an essay forthcoming) and the #ChurchofIreland (not always related to Swift). I also write on occasion about #EssexCricket or #CountyCricket in general. Probably not doing any more translation, but spending more time reading in Norwegian just for the fun of it.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

—Jonathan Swift

#quotes #JonathanSwift #genius #OdilonRedonPainting

Roarning!

The poem for today is 'A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General' by Jonathan Swift.
I really like it.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45268/a-satirical-elegy-on-the-death-of-a-late-famous-general

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #JonathanSwift

Good morning!

The poem for today is "On a Candle" by Jonathan Swift.
It is a beautiful poem! And today is the birthday of Swift!

https://poetandpoem.com/Jonathan-Swift/On-A-Candle

(I'll post the poem for yesterday later today.)

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #JonathanSwift

Literarischer #30November

„Phantasie ist die Gabe, unsichtbare Dinge zu sehen.“

#JonathanSwift Geburt 1667

#jonathanswift #swift #18ccool

Introduction: I have written about and am still interested in #MaryToft #JonathanSwift #AlexanderPope #DanielDefoe #WilliamByrdII #IndenturedServitude #Slavery. I recently finished a book ms. on William Byrd and slavery in early Virginia that will come out in June. Taught over thirty years at Georgetown University but now retired and living in #Berkeley, where I am raising an extraordinarily traumatized but lovable dog.

Roarning!

The poem for today is "A Description of a City Shower" by Jonathan Swift.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50578/a-description-of-a-city-shower

#Poetry #JonathanSwift

Good morning everyone,

The poem for today is "The Beasts' Confession" by Jonathan Swift.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45265/the-beasts-confession

I guess the last stanza is satirical.

#Poetry #JonathanSwift