 Misanthropy has also been ascribed to a number of writers of satire, such as William S. Gilbert ("I hate my fellow-man") and William Shakespeare ("Timon of Athens").Jonathan Swift is widely believed to have been misanthropic (see "A Tale of a Tub" and, most especially, Book IV of "Gulliver's Travels").Poet Philip Larkin has been described as a misanthrope.