Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. He 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.
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Jonathan Swift
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Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
| Born | 30 November 1667 |
| Died | 19 October 1745 |
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Jonathan Swift
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Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
| Born | 30 November 1667 |
| Died | 19 October 1745 |
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Politics and government, Early works to 1800, Imaginary Voyages, Fiction, History, English literature, Humor, Travelers, English Satire, Coinage, Correspondence, Lemuel Gulliver (Fictitious character), Poetry, Swift, jonathan, 1667-1745, Money, Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Irish Authors, Pamphlets, Irish authors, Juvenile fiction, English Political satire, Children's fiction, Voyages and travels, English languagePlaces
Great Britain, Ireland, Athens (Greece), England, Rome, Ying guo, Netherlands, Dublin, Araby, Araby bazaar, North Richmond Street, Calcutta, Carthage, Dublin (Ireland), Dunkerque (France), France, India, Italy, Lilliput, Lilliput and Blefuscu (Fictitious Islands), London, London (England), Milan, Naples, Rome (Italy)People
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), William Wood (1671-1730), Richard Steele Sir (1672-1729), Esther Johnson (1681-1728), Anne Queen of Great Britain (1665-1714), John Partridge (1644-1715), Lemuel Gulliver (Fictitious character), Patrick Delany (1685 or 6-1768), Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Daniel Finch Nottingham Earl of (1647-1730), John Carteret Earl Granville (1690-1763), Anthony Collins (1676-1729), Horace, John Browne Sir, John Churchill Marlborough Duke of (1650-1722), Mangan's sister, Mary Toft (1703-1763), Matthew Prior (1664-1721), Nathanael St. André (1680-1776), Patrick Delany (1685 or 1686-1768), Robert Harley Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, Thomas Wharton Wharton Marquess of (1648?-1715), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), (Fictitious Characters)Time
18th century, 1702-1714, Anne, 1702-1714, Jin dai, 1660-1714, 1689-1702, 1714-1727, 15th and 16th centuries, 1603-1714, 1648-1714, 1712, 1714-1837, 1724., 17th century, 1912, 510 B.C.-30 B.C., 510-30 B.C, Early works to 1800, Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713, Siglo XVIII, The Controversy of Wood's Halfpence, Xian daiID Numbers
- OLID: OL24522A
- ISNI: 0000000121214321
- VIAF: 14777110
- Wikidata: Q41166
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q41166
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- (ying) Si, wei fu te
- Джонатан Свифт
- Д. Свифт
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