...Writer, the Benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no Reason to doubt; Particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is coucht underneath. Swift. A Tale of a Tub. Preface IT MAY BE THOUGHT rash or superfluous in the Cambridge...

...is Folly, and a woman who speaks," or, with Swift's Grub Street hack in A Tale of a Tub, "where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is coucht underneath" ("The Author's Preface"). "I have sometimes heard," he says, "of an Iliad in a nutshell;...

...DESPOTISM; Burke on MOBS; Bulwer-Lytton on The PUBLIC; Shaw on REVOLUTION u Understanding Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would...

...many of the cant terms it obsessively repeats. It hence is addressed by the command in the "Preface" that "whatever Word or Sentence is printed in a different...something extraordinary either of Wit or Sublime" (47). This reflexivity or self-referentiality—"Sublime" itself containing something sublime—is...

...writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something...be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime. " Jonathan Swift Author's note The following procedure shall prove to be of great...

...writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something...be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime. As for the liberty I have thought fit to take of praising myself, upon some occasions...