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  1. 22 de may. de 2024 · Jonathan Swift (born November 30, 1667, Dublin, Ireland—died October 19, 1745, Dublin) was an Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726), he wrote such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and “A Modest Proposal” (1729).

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  2. 2 de may. de 2024 · Summary. This chapter provides a biographical overview of Swifts career. It reconstructs the contexts of Swifts early life and career in Ireland and England and charts his friendships and allegiances.

  3. Hace 5 días · A Modest Proposal, satiric essay by Jonathan Swift, published in pamphlet form in 1729. Presented in the guise of an economic treatise, the essay proposes that the country ameliorate poverty in Ireland by butchering the children of the Irish poor and selling them as food to wealthy English landlords.

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  4. Hace 6 días · Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".

  5. 2 de may. de 2024 · Summary. This chapter focuses on Swift as a historian. The first section looks at how Swift read historical works: not just what he thought of individual historians, but how he extracted information from their books, marking up pages and jotting down notes.

  6. 2 de may. de 2024 · Cite. Summary. Swift was not the first satirist and parodist to explore science and its texts and technologies, but his works demonstrated an acute sophistication in how they assimilated and imaginatively transformed natural knowledge, as often a vehicle as a target of satire, and with a recognition of science’s increasing cultural power.

  7. 9 de may. de 2024 · Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”: A social satire “Gulliver’s Travels” is a great work of social satire. Jonathan Swift’s age was an age of smug complacency.

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