Born on 30 November 1667, Irish author, clergyman and satirist Jonathan Swift grew up fatherless. Under the care of his uncle, he received a bachelor's degree from Trinity College and then worked as a statesman's assistant. Eventually, he became dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. Most of his writings were published under pseudonyms. He is best remembered for his satirical novel Gulliver's Travels (1726). Read here.
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famous satirist in English literature.
His best known full-length work,
Gulliver's Travels (1726), which is the story of its hero's
encounters with different races and societies in distant countries, mirrors
Swift's vision of mankind's ambiguous position between bestiality and
rationality. Published seven years
after Daniel
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels may be read as a systematic negation of Defoe's
optimistic account of human capability.
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