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Jonathan Swift


Born
in Dublin, Ireland
November 30, 1667

Died
October 19, 1745

Genre
Fiction, Satire, Poetry

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Jonathan Swift 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".
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
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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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The Battle of the Books
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“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift
tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift
tags: imagination
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“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays
tags: dunces, genius, stupidity
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