Analüüs Swifti kirjandusest inglise keeles
them was Swift's friend, the Anglican Bishop of Rochester Francis Atterbury, who was exiled to France
in 1722.
Swift's Lilliputian claims that the machinations of "BigEndian exiles" at the court of the Emperor of
Blefuscu have brought about a continuous war between Lilliput and Blefuscu for "six and thirty moons"
(Lilliputians calculate time in 'moons', not years; their timescale is apparently also onetwelfth the size
of normal humans.) This is an allusion to the wars fought underKing William III and Queen
Anne against France under Louis XIV, the War of the Grand Alliance (16891697) and the War of the
Spanish Succession (17011713). In both cases, the claims of the exiled House of Stuart were
marginal to other causes of war, but were an important propaganda point in Great Britain itself, as both
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