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About Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He is best known for Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726, and for the invention of Lilliput, the fictional island at the heart of that book. He wrote with sharp irony and political bite, and his work helped define satire in the Georgian era. He is widely regarded as a major prose author in English literature, with a reputation built on wit, severity, and a clear eye for human folly.
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- “I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion…”Jonathan Swift
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- “He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such times he mad…”C.J. Cherryh
- “I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even…”Kenneth Koch
- “Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port?” He went on and snorted…”V.S. Carnes
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Books by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
1966
Miscellaneous Prose
2008