Jonathan Swift





Jonathan Swift

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born
November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland

died
October 19, 1745

gender
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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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Gulliver's Travels
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A Modest Proposal
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A Tale of a Tub
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Directions to Servants
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1731 — 13 editions
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The Battle of the Books and...
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Complete Poems
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1967 — 6 editions
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More books by Jonathan Swift…
“May you live every day of your life.”
Jonathan Swift

“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

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

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