Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels)
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Yahoos are legendary human beings in the 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift. Their behaviour and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from
The Servants Drive a Herd of Yahoos into the Field by Louis John Rhead, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput
Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels)
…Yahoos are legendary human beings in the 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift. Their behaviour and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from Swift's point of view. The word "yahoo" was coined by…
Portrait by Charles Jervas, 1710
The house in which Swift was born; 1865 illustration
Jonathan Swift in 1682, by Thomas Pooley. The artist had married into the Swift family.
Jonathan Swift (shown without wig) by Rupert Barber, 1745, National Portrait Gallery, London