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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.
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culture · Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric (1667–1745) · poet · novelist · satirist · philosopher · human rights defender · pamphleteer · Anglican priest · writer · science fiction writer · essayist · also Jonathan Swift, M. B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Simon Wagstaff, Swift
Born 30 November 1667 · Died 19 October 1745 · Q41166
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s Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning (1690), though Battle was not published until 1704. Temple died on 27 January 1699. Swift, normally a harsh judge of human nature, said that all that was good and amiable in mankind had died with Temple. He stayed on briefly in England to complete editing Temple
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2026· 4 entries
“s Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning (1690), though Battle was not published until 1704. Temple died on 27 January 1699. Swift, normally a harsh judge of human nature, said that all that was good and amiable in mankind had died with Temple. He stayed on briefly in England to complete editing Temple”
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Engelsberg Ideas: Jonathan Swift’s literary world
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The Guardian: The Twitnam Summer by Hester Grant review – Swift, Gay and Pope’s season in the sun
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the week: The Day of Judgement by Jonathan Swift
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Gulliver’s Travels review – bedroom voyage to the world of Jonathan Swift
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Gulliver Returns review – nonsensical animated take on Swift’s classic
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2020· 1 entry
The festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has not been held since
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel review – a ‘daring cultural bandit’
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 88 – A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729)
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1982· 1 entry
Soviet playwright Grigory Gorin wrote a theatrical fantasy called The House That Swift Built based on the last years of Jonathan Swift's life and episodes of his works
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1946· 1 entry
“Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels”
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1745· 3 entries
Died 1745-10-19.
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“Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.”
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“Books, the children of the brain.”
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1739· 1 entry
“Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”
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1732· 1 entry
“The Beasts' Confession to the Priest”
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1731· 3 entries
“A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed”
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“Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.”
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“Cassinus and Peter: A Tragical Elegy”
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1730· 1 entry
“On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet”
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1729· 1 entry
“The Grand Question debated Whether Hamilton's Bawn should be turned into a Barrack or a Malt House”
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1727· 1 entry
“The Furniture of a Woman's Mind”
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1726· 1 entry
“Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers”
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1725· 1 entry
“To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair”
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1722· 1 entry
“A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General”
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1721· 1 entry
“A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet”
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1720· 1 entry
“A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Entered into Holy Orders”
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1719· 1 entry
“Phillis, or, the Progress of Love”
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1714· 1 entry
“The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, set forth in their generous encouragement of the author of the crisis”
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1713· 1 entry
“Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation”
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1712· 1 entry
“A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue”
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1711· 1 entry
“On the Conduct of the Allies”
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1710· 1 entry
“A Description of a City Shower”
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1709· 1 entry
“A Description of the Morning”
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1708· 1 entry
“An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity”
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1707· 1 entry
“A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind”
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1703· 1 entry
“A Meditation upon a Broom-stick”
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1667· 1 entry
Born 1667-11-30.
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