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Jonathan Swift was born on November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Protestant Anglo-Irish parents: his ancestors had been Royalists, and all his life he would be a High-Churchman. His father, also Jonathan, died a few months before he was born, upon which his mother, Abigail, returned to England, leaving her son behind, in the care of relatives. In 1673, at the age of six, Swift began his education at Kilkenny Grammar School, which was, at the time, the best in Ireland. Between 1682 and 1686 he attended, and graduated from, Trinity College in Dublin, though he was not, apparently, an exemplary student.

In 1688 William of Orange invaded England, initiating the Glorious Revolution: with Dublin in political turmoil, Trinity College was closed, and an ambitious Swift took the opportunity to go to England, where he hoped to gain preferment in the Anglican Church. In England, in 1689, he became secretary to Sir William Temple, a diplomat and man of letters, at Moor Park in Surrey. There Swift read extensively in his patron's library, and met Esther Johnson, who would becom

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Jonathan Swift, by Charles Jervas, 1710

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who becameDean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.

Swift is remembered for works such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier’s Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity and A Tale of a Tub. He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, MB Drapier – or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.

Gulliver’s Travels, a large portion of which Swift wrote at Woodbrook House in County Laois, was published in 1726. It is regarded as his masterpiece. As with his other writings, the Travels was published

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Jonathan Swift, more popularly known as Gulliver’s Travels’ author, was an Irish author. Swift, who wrote Gulliver’s Travels, was also a clergyman. He had served as a dean in Dublin’s St. Patrick's Cathedral. It is known to very few that the Irish satirist grew up without a father. He was raised by his uncle and went on to obtain a bachelor's degree from Dublin’s Trinity College. Having completed his undergraduate degree, the Gulliver’s Travels writer worked as an assistant to the statesman, eventually becoming the dean. The satirical author published most of his writings under pseudonyms.

In this Jonathan Swift biography, we will attempt to learn about his early life, the works done by Jonathan Swift, his death and more.

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Birth and Early Life

Now that we know who is Jonathan Swift, let us see what the early years in the life of the Gulliver’s Travels’ author were. Swift was born on 30th November 1667 in Dublin, Ireland. He was named after his father (also Jonathan Swift), who was an attorney who had passed away j