Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) in part parodies Defoe's adventure novel.

* Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was originally attributed to " Lemuel Gulliver ", a ship's surgeon, and purported to be a factual account of four of his sea voyages.

" G. K. Chesterton compared it to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: " Gilbert pursued and persecuted the evils of modern England till they had literally not a leg to stand on, exactly as Swift did ...

* In book 4 of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, the name of the Houyhnhnms is an onomatopoeia for the whinny of a horse.

A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of modern science itself, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was one of the first true science fantasy works, together with Voltaire's Micromégas ( 1752 ) and Johannes Kepler's Somnium ( 1620 – 1630 ).

* Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal and The Predictions for the Ensuing Year ( written as Isaac Bickerstaff ).

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is sometimes linked with utopian ( and dystopian ) literature, because it shares the general preoccupation with ideas of the good ( and bad ) society.

The later part, taking place on the planet of the " centaurs "— intelligent, horselike carnivores who dominate all other fauna on the planet including deformed human-like creatures — is evidently intended as Heinlein's commentary on and antithesis to the fourth part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Houyhnhnms ( or ; Swift apparently intended all words of the Houyhnhnm language to echo the neighing of horses ) are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical Gulliver's Travels.

* Lilliput and Blefuscu, two island nations in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels

Geological features on Phobos are named after astronomers who studied Phobos and people and places from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, published seven years after Robinson Crusoe, may be read as a systematic rebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of human capability.

* In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ( Part III ), the base of the fictitious flying island of Laputa is made of Adamant.

* Armagh Public Library on Abbey Street in Armagh City, especially rich in 17th and 18th century English books, including Dean Jonathan Swift's own copy of the first edition of his Gulliver's Travels with his manuscript corrections

A reprise of the theme of immortality without eternal youth appear in Book 3 of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels where the struldbrugs are in Tithonus's predicament.

In one scene of Jonathan Swift's The Battle of the Books, Momus, while rushing to defend the Moderns, gets some aid from the goddess Criticism.

A small creek winding through Campton, Swift Creek, is named after Jonathan Swift of the legend of Swift's silver mine.

Campton was a camp town with a small creek, swift creek ( named after Jonathan Swift of the legend of Swift's silver mine ) running through the town.

Although meaningless in Japanese, the name " Laputa " comes from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

* References to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island were removed, as was the reference to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Jonathan Swift's protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver, visited various strange places.

He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club ( where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad ), and for inventing the figure of John Bull.

The group's name is derived from the kingdom of coarse giants described in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels.

* Jonathan Swift wrote a poem on the subject of Baucis and Philemon in 1709.

*" Helter Skelter ", poem and story by Jonathan Swift

When she was fifty, she published a collection of poetry Prometheus and Other Poems ( London: Jonathan Cape 1929 ) which comprises thirty-three lyric poems, four " dream poems ", one long poem, and a verse-play.

This occurrence is documented in Jonathan Swift's 1710 poem ' Description of a City Shower ', in which he describes " Drowned puppies, stinking sprats, all drenched in mud ,/ Dead cats and turnip-tops come tumbling down the flood.

Lund's patriotic poem, " Nunarput Utoqqarsuanngoravit " or " Our Country Who's Become So Old ," was written in 1912 and later set to music by Jonathan Petersen ( 1891 – 1960 ).

* Online translation of poem by Jonathan Glenn, University of Central Arkansas

He notes that he cannot remember any poem that celebrated true Friendship like that between David and Jonathan, Orestes and Pylades, Roland and Oliver, Amis and Amiles.

Jonathan Post claims the poem ends with a sort of retrospective picture of the poet having " sung " the poem into being.

Jonathan Swift, an Irish satirist in the 17th century, used scatological humor in some of his pieces, including his famous essay A Modest Proposal and his rather crude poem " The Lady's Dressing Room ," in which the speaker comments on the goings-on in a 17th-century woman's room, including her business in her chamber pot.

* The 17th century writer Jonathan Swift mocked the idea of self-similarity in natural philosophy with the following lines in his poem " On Poetry: A Rhapsody ":

* The Oxford English Dictionary entry on writing has literary references to this phrase in English, including the following verse from the poem " The Run Upon The Bankers " by Jonathan Swift:

The character Jonathan Ben Isaac and his visit by a spirit call to mind the similar situation and name in the poem Abu Ben Adhem by Victorian poet, James Henry Lee Hunt.

His chief work is the Scribleriad ( 1751 ), a mock epic poem, the hero of which is the Martinus Scriblerus of Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot and Jonathan Swift.

In 1838 appeared Athwold, a Romaunt, and Saint Jonathan, the Lay of the Scald, designed as the commencement of a semi-humorous poem, in the Don Juan style.

Abbey's first novel, Jonathan Troy ( 1954 ), is set entirely in a thinly disguised Indiana, and his novel The Fool's Progress ( 1988 ), which he called his " fat masterpiece ", is an autobiographical account of his growing up in this area and his imagined attempt to return home after a lifetime spent mostly in the desert Southwest.

A necessarily brief survey of the corpus might include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and William Golding's Rites of Passage.

* 2004 Musical Doornroosje ( Sleeping Beauty ), Jonathan, Dutch tour