According to Wikipedia: "Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, 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. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles."
According to Wikipedia: "Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, 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. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles."
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Jonathan Swift (Dublín, 1667–1745) cursó estudios en el Trinity College y se ordenó sacerdote anglicano en 1695 tras una fallida experiencia como diplomático profesional en Inglaterra. Aunque inicialmente se alineó ideológicamente con el partido liberal, sus importantes diferencias de criterio con sus compañeros de filas lo llevaron a militar en el partido tory (conservador), cuando éste logró el poder en Inglaterra en 1710. En 1713 fue nombrado deán en la catedral de San Patricio, en Dublín. Los años siguientes, hasta que perdiera sus facultades físicas y psíquicas en el último lustro de su vida, están marcados por un sentimiento de soledad y amargura personal cada vez mayor, en contraste con una fama literaria creciente y con una inmensa popularidad como defensor de la causa irlandesa. Su epitafio, escrito por él mismo, reza: «Aquí yace el cuerpo de Jonathan Swift, déan de la catedral, en un lugar en que la ardiente indignación no puede ya lacerar su corazón. Ve, viajero, e intenta imitar a un hombre que fue un irreductible defensor de la libertad.»
