A Tale of a Tub
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, arguably his most difficult satire and perhaps his most masterly. The "Tale" is a prose parody divided into sections each delving into the morals and ethics of the English. Composed between 1694 and 1697, it was eventually published in 1704. It was long regarded as a satire on religion, and has famously been attacked for that, starting with William Wotton.
A Poison Tree
The "Songs of Experience" was published in 1794 as a follow up to Blake's 1789 "Songs of Innocence." The two books were published together under the merged title "Songs of Innocence and Experience, showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: the author and printer, W. Blake" featuring 54 plates. The illustrations are arranged differently in some copies, while a number of poems were moved from "Songs of Innocence" to "Songs of Experience." Blake continued to print the work throughout his life. Of the copies of the original collection, only 28 published during his life are known to exist, with an additional 16 published posthumously. Only 5 of the poems from "Songs of Experience" appeared individually before 1839 with "A Poison Tree" first published in the 1830 "London University Magazine".