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Authors and Texts:
- Juvenal's Third Satire"
- Dryden's Translation of Juvenal's "Third Satire"
- Johnson's Imitation of Juvenal's Third Satire
- Juvenal's Sixth Satire
- Sarah Egerton's Response to the "Satire Against Women"
- Pope's "Imitation of Horace, Satire 2.1"
- Horace's Satire 2.6
- Horace's Satire 2.7
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Lucian of Samosata, scroll down to the Dialogues of the Dead, Nos. IV, XVIII, and XXII. [There is a good introduction at the beginning of the text.]
- Lucian's Dialogues od the Dead: XXII Charon, Menippus, and Hermes; and XVIII Menippus and Hermes
- Chaucer, Prologue to The Pardoner's Tale
- Chaucer, The Pardoner's Tale
- Rabelais -Gargantua and Pantagruel, excerpt , Book I, Chapters 3-4 (How Gargantua was carried for 11 months inside
his Mother's Belly and How Gargamelle, when great with Gargantua, ate great quantities of Tripe) and 25-29 (battle
between the cake-bakers of Lerne and Grandgousier's shepherds)
- Erasmus - The Praise of Folly, excerpts, Dedication and first 12 HTML pages--or 26 printed pp.--(to "On Those who have Confidence in Magical Charms")
- Nashe - excerpt from The Unfortunate Traveller , scroll down the page until you get to The Unfortunate Traveller
- Joseph Hall, Virgidemarium, Book I, Satire III (Excerpt)
- Renaissance Women Writers - E-Text Database , Margaret Cavendish
- Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, the "Satyrical Preface" is a Rabelaisian tour de force
- Facsimile pages from The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Ormsby Trans. of Don Quixote, complete text (read Book I, Chapter 8 only)
- Don Quixote, link directly to "Windmill" episode (Bk 1, Chap. 8)
- Samuel Butler , biography, etc.
- Hudibras, lines 1-234
- Hogarth's "Hudibras"
- Le Sage's Gil Blas, Trans. Tobias Smollett
- Dryden's "MacFlecknoe"
- Shadwell's "The Medal of John Bayes." Check out Shadwell's attack on Dryden. You can find this poem in Early English Books Online (EEBO) -- see Killam Library Webpage
- Excerpts from Dryden's Discourse Concerning the Original [Origin] and Progress of Satire
- Rochester's "Satyr Against Reason and Mankind"
- Rochester's "Satyre on Charles II"
- Rochester's "The Imperfect Enjoyment"
- Behn's "The Disappointment"
- Finch's "Democritus and His Neighbours"
- Manley's The Lost Lover, you have to search the database to get to this item.
- Jonathan Swift Page
- Jonathan
Swift, Tale of a Tub
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Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1735 ed.)
- Jonathan Swift, "The Lady's Dressing Room"
- Jonathan Swift,
A Modest Proposal
- Mary Collier, "A Woman's Labour"
- Lady Wortley Montagu, "Verses Addressed to the
Imitator of ... Horace"
- Lady Wortley Montagu, "Reasons that Induced Dr. S[wift] to Write The Lady's Dressing Room
- Pope's The Dunciad , Part IV, excerpt
See above for Pope's Imitation of Horace, Satire 2.1
- Hogarth & Graphic Satire
- Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes"
- Byron's "Vision of Judgment," excerpt
- Byron's Don Juan, "The Dedication"
- Peacock'sNightmare Abbey
- Hazlitt's "On the Disadvantage of Intellectual Superiority"
- Hazlitt's "On the Ignorance of the Learned"
- Victorian Satire
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Mark Twain, "From Alta, Letter 22 [nude bathers]", delete from Innocents Abroad, Chap. 36
- Mark Twain, Collected Works
- Twain's Innocents Abroad
- George Elliott Clarke on Haliburton's Racism (excerpts)
- Stephen Leacock, selections
- George Orwell's Animal Farm
- Margaret Atwood
- This Hour Has 22 Minutes
- Rick Mercer Report
Last Updated: March 6, 2006