The Poems of Jonathan Swift

-News from Parnassus

BY DR. DELANY

OCCASIONED BY "APOLLO TO THE DEAN"

[Footnote 1: Dr. Trapp or Trap, ridiculed by Swift in "The Tatler," No. 66, as parson Dapper. He was sent to Ireland as chaplain to Sir Constantine Phipps, Lord Chancellor, in 1710-11. But in July, 1712, Swift writes to Stella, "I have made Trap chaplain to Lord Bolingbroke, and he is mighty happy and thankful for it." He translated the "Aeneid" into blank verse.--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 2: Prior, concerning whose "Journey to France," Swift wrote a "formal relation, all pure invention," which had a great sale, and was a "pure bite." See Journal to Stella, Sept., 1711.--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 3: Pope, and his translations of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey."--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 4: Gay; alluding to his "Trivia."--N.]

[Footnote 5: Diana.]