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Jonathan Swift: A Reluctant Patriot: - Anglo-Irish Satirist, Poet and Political Writer

Jonathan Swift was an 18th century Anglo-Irish satirist, poet, and writer best known for works like Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal. He was born in Dublin in 1667 to English parents and educated at Kilkenny School, Trinity College Dublin, and Oxford University. Swift held positions as a priest in the Church of Ireland and eventually became the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. Throughout his life, he struggled with Meniere's disease and other illnesses. Some mysteries remain about Swift's personal relationships and a few unexplained events. He made important contributions to English literature and political writing through famous satirical works that criticized English policies toward Ireland. Swift died in Dublin in

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Jonathan Swift: A Reluctant Patriot: - Anglo-Irish Satirist, Poet and Political Writer

Jonathan Swift was an 18th century Anglo-Irish satirist, poet, and writer best known for works like Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal. He was born in Dublin in 1667 to English parents and educated at Kilkenny School, Trinity College Dublin, and Oxford University. Swift held positions as a priest in the Church of Ireland and eventually became the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. Throughout his life, he struggled with Meniere's disease and other illnesses. Some mysteries remain about Swift's personal relationships and a few unexplained events. He made important contributions to English literature and political writing through famous satirical works that criticized English policies toward Ireland. Swift died in Dublin in

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Anglo-Irish satirist,

poet and political


writer


Dean of St. Patricks
Cathedral, Dublin
Biography
born: November 30, 1667, in Dublin
ancestry: English parents, who migrated to Ireland:
mother: Abigail Erick Swift from a well-established but modest
family in Leicester
father: Jonathan Swift, the elder: lawyer in Dublin, died at the age of
27
Education:
Kilkenny grammar school (1673-1682)
Trinity College, Dublin (1682-1686): BA
Oxford University: MA (1692)
Trinity College, Dublin: doctor of divinity degree (1702)
Illness and Death
Menieres disease plighted Swift throughout his life
Died: October 19
th
1745




Trinity College, Dublin
Relationship with Sir William Temple
Secretary to Sir W.
Temple, Moor Park,
Surrey: 1689-1690, 1692-
1694, 1696-1699
Writes the short satire
The Battle of the Books in
defense of Temples
views as regarding the
ongoing debate of
whether ancient authors
were superior to modern
ones

Priesthood
October 1694: Anglican deacon
1695: Church of Ireland priest;
1695-96 assigned to the small parish at Kilroot
(near Belfast)
February 1700: vicar of Laracor
October 1700: prebend of St. Patricks Cathedral,
Dublin
1706-1709: Church of Ireland representative in
London
1714: dean of St. Patricks Cathedral, Dublin

Swifts rectory at Kilroot
St. Patricks Cathedral, Dublin
The Mysteries of Swifts Life
The Whitehaven
incident

Esther Johnson

Esther
Vanhomrigh
Literary Work
PROSE SATIRES
The Battle of the Books (1704)
A Tale of the Tub (1704)
Predictions For The Ensuing Year by Isaac
Bickerstaff (1708)
Proposal for Universal Use of Irish Manufacture
(1720)
Drapiers Letters (1724)
Gullivers Travels (1726)
A Modest Proposal (1729)

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