Jonathan Swift responded with an attack on the Irish judiciary almost unparalleled in its ferocity, his principal target being the "vile and profligate villain" William Whitshed, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Also during these years, he began writing his masterpiece, "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships", better known as "Gulliver's Travels". Much of the material reflects his political experiences of the preceding decade. For instance, the episode in which the giant Gulliver puts out the Lilliputian palace fire by urinating on it can be
The Creek of the Four Graves The Creek of the Four Graves "The Creek of the Four Graves" is a poem by Australian writer Charles Harpur that was first published in three parts in "The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature" on 9 August, 16 August and 23 August 1845. The author then published an erratum in the same paper on 30 August 1845 which corrects what appears to be a misprinting. It was later included in the author's poetry collection "The Bushrangers, a Play in Five Acts, and Other Poems" (1853), and was subsequently reprinted in various newspapers, magazines and poetry anthologies. Harpur