Jonathan Swift

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born

November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland

died

October 19, 1745

gender

male

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Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift published all of his works under pseudonyms — such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier — or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire; the Horatian and...more

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Average rating: 3.57 · 63,638 ratings · 1,964 reviews · 917 distinct works

	Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Robert DeMaria Jr. (intro and notes) 3.45 avg rating — 48,628 ratings — published 1726 — 732 editions	My rating:
	A Modest Proposal 4.06 avg rating — 6,894 ratings — published 1729 — 37 editions	My rating:
	A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works by Jonathan Swift, Dover Thrift Editions 3.98 avg rating — 5,136 ratings — published 1729 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Gulliver's Travels / A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, Jesse Gale (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 1,018 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings 3.55 avg rating — 828 ratings — published 1958 — 13 editions	My rating:
	A Tale of a Tub and Other Works by Jonathan Swift, Angus Ross (Editor), David Woolley (Editor) 3.52 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 1704 — 13 editions	My rating:
	A Tale of a Tub 3.35 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1704 — 51 editions	My rating:
	Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift, Colm Tóibín (Foreword by), Colm Toibin (Foreword) 3.82 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1731 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces 3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2003 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Complete Poems by Jonathan Swift, Pat Rogers (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1967 — 6 editions	My rating:

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“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

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“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.”
― Jonathan Swift

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“Books, the children of the brain.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Tale Of A Tub And Other Writings

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