Pagine1667–1745 · Dublin, Ireland · also known as Swift, Dean Swift
Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, was the greatest satirist in English. Gulliver’s Travels (1726) — the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to the tiny Lilliputians, the giant Brobdingnagians, the floating island of Laputa and the land of the wise horses — mocks politics, science and human pride. A Modest Proposal (1729), which “suggests” that poor Irish families sell their children as food, is the most famous piece of savage irony ever written.
Begin with Gulliver’s Travels.
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Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, was the greatest satirist in English. Gulliver’s Travels (1726) — the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to the tiny Lilliputians, the giant Brobdingnagians, the floating island of Laputa and the land of the wise horses — mocks politics, science and human pride.
Gulliver’s Travels is usually considered Jonathan Swift’s best-known work, followed by A Modest Proposal.
Most readers start with Gulliver’s Travels.
Both refer to the same writer. Other spellings and names include Swift, Dean Swift.
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