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  1. Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".

  2. Jul 4, 2024 · Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726), he wrote such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and “A Modest Proposal” (1729). Swift’s father, Jonathan Swift the elder, was an.

  3. Jonathan Swift Biography. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland, on November 30, 1667. The son of an English lawyer, he grew up there in the care of his uncle before attending Trinity College at the age of fourteen, where he stayed for seven years, graduating in 1688.

  4. Best known as the author of A Modest Proposal (1729), Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and A Tale Of A Tub (1704), Swift is widely acknowledged as the greatest prose satirist in the history of English literature.

  5. Jonathan Swift, (born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire.—died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin), Irish author, the foremost prose satirist in English. He was a student at Dublin’s Trinity College during the anti-Catholic Revolution of 1688 in England.

  6. Jonathan Swift has 4031 books on Goodreads with 750552 ratings. Jonathan Swifts most popular book is Gulliver’s Travels.

  7. Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish 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.

  8. www.encyclopedia.com › english-literature-1500-1799-biographies › jonathan-swiftJonathan Swift | Encyclopedia.com

    Jun 8, 2018 · Jonathan Swift >The Anglo-Irish poet, political writer, and clergyman Jonathan Swift >(1667-1745) ranks as the foremost prose satirist in the English language [1] >and as one of the greatest satirists in world literature. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland, on Nov. 30, 1667.

  9. Jonathan Swift, an eminent Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and Anglican cleric, left an indelible mark on British heritage through his scathing and thought-provoking literary works.

  10. Oct 25, 2018 · Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was born in Dublin to Anglo-Irish parents. He entered Trinity College Dublin in 1682 and in 1689 became secretary to retired diplomat Sir William Temple, in Surrey. There he met Esther Johnson (Stella), the daughter of Temple’s housekeeper and during this period began writing Pindaric odes.

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