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Jonathan Swift Profile

Jonathan Swift
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  Born:  Dublin, Ireland, 30th November 1667.

  Died:  Dublin, Ireland, 19th October 1745.

  Irish poet, satirist and political pamphleteer, most famous for his satirical novel, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World... By Lemuel Gulliver, usually known as Gulliver's Travels.

  Literary assistant to Sir William Temple (1628 - 1699), a diplomat, at Moor Park in Surrey, where he met Esther Johnson (1681 - 1728) to whom he later wrote a series of letters which were later published as The Journal to Stella.

  Swift was a supporter of the Tory party, and wrote a number of political pamphlets advocating their beliefs.  He was the editor of The Examiner, a Tory newspaper, between 1710 and 1711.

  He was ordained in the Church of England in 1694, and in 1713 he became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.

  Following the death of Queen Anne and the political fall of the Tory party in 1714, he withdrew to Dublin and developed an interest in Irish politics.

Works with publication dates:

"A Tale of a Tub..." (written 1696 - 99, published 1704)
"The Battle of the Books" (written 1697, published with "A Tale of a Tub..." in 1704)
"Conduct of the Allies..."
"The Drapier's Letters"
The Journal to Stella (written between 1710 and 1713)
Gulliver's Travels (1726)
 "A Modest Proposal..." (1729)

Links

Hertford College Alumni - Jonathan Swift
http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/alumni/swift.htm

The Millennium Library - Jonathan Swift
http://www.millenniumlibrary.co.uk/millib/reference/
notes.php?entry=Jonathan%20Swift&fromdb=2

Guardian Unlimited - Jonathan Swift
http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-129,00.html

1UpInfo - Jonathan Swift
http://www.1upinfo.com/encyclopedia/S/Swift-Jo.html

Spectrum - Jonathan Swift
http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Swift.html

Timeline of Swift's Life, Works and Travels
http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/chron.html

The Victorian Web - Jonathan Swift
http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/swift/swiftov.html

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin - Jonathan Swift
http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/swift.htm

Wikipedia - Jonathan Swift
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift

Ireland's Millennia - Dean Jonathan Swift
http://www.rte.ie/culture/millennia/people/swiftjonathan.html

A selection of books by Jonathan Swift available from W.H. Smith:
 

Gulliver's Travels  (hardback)

A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works  (paperback)

Gulliver's Travels to Lilliput and Brobdingnag  (paperback)

"A Tale of a Tub" and Other Works  (paperback)

Jonathan Swift: the Major Works  (paperback)

Writings of Jonathan Swift  (paperback)

Swift's Irish Pamphlets An Introductory Selection  (hardback)

Complete Poems  (paperback)

Correspondence of Jonathan Swift  (paperback)

Intelligencer  (hardback)

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Pope, Swift and Gay