DŽONATAN SVIFT U SRPSKOHRVATSKOJ KNJIŽEVNOJ KRITICI (OD 1884-1940)
JONATHAN SWIFT IN SERBO-CROATIAN LITERARY CRITICISM (FROM 1884 TO 1940)

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents reception of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), one of the most famous English satirists, who criticised false learning, church depravity, and especially English political situation of the time, from the first mentioning of his name and works to the Second World War. During the period of more than half a century, in Croatian and Serbian periodicals were published only a few articles about him. The first article was written nearly a century and a half after Swift’s death, because there were very few people in these countries who knew English at those times. Some articles were not critically inclined, but only brought some biographical notes or anecdotes from his life. The most of them, however, dealt with Swift’s best work Gulliver’s travels, which is rightly considered to be a bitter satire on human nature. The treated articles and reviews agree with generally accepted judgements about Swift as one of the greatest satirists of all times.

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