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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman born in Dublin.

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About Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman born in Dublin. He lived in Ireland and England. He wrote essays, satire, and poetry. A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books appeared in 1704, and Gulliver’s Travels in 1726. He died in Dublin.

Born
1667
Died
1745

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a man whose original genius and uncommon talents have raised him, in the general estimation, above all other writers of the age
Thomas Sheridan, Irish stage actor and educator · The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 3: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

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