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- Title
THE HOUYHNHNMS: SWIFT SUETONIUS, AND MARVELL.
- Authors
Pritchard, Allan
- Abstract
this article discusses the usage of Houyhnhnms by Jonathan Swift in the book "Gulliver's Travels." Swift's use of the Houyhnhnms to satirize human deficiencies may have been suggested by the reputed proposal of the Roman emperor Caligula to make his favourite horse a consul. Swift's interest in the early Roman emperors is shown in "Gulliver's Travels," when Gulliver in Glubbdubdrib, the island of sorcerers or magicians, has the governor call up their spirits. It is an irony that might well have appealed to Swift that, in contrast to this exalted horse, the most debased and Yahoo like figure in Suetonius is Caligula himself.
- Subjects
GULLIVER'S Travels (Book : Swift); SWIFT, Jonathan, 1667-1745; HOUYHNHNMS (Fictional characters); ROMAN emperors; CYNICISM; LITERATURE
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1990, Vol 37, Issue 3, p305
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/37-3-305