Jonathan Swift (GBR) * 30.11.1667 † 19.10.1745 (77 years old)
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish[1] 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,[dubious – discuss] and is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, MB Drapier – or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
Bibliography:
Essays, tracts, pamphlets, periodicals
"A Meditation upon a Broomstick" (1703–1710)
"A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind" (1707–1711)
The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers (1708–1709): Full text: U of Adelaide
"An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity" (1708–1711): Full text: U of Adelaide
The Intelligencer (with Thomas Sheridan) (1719–1788): Text: Project Gutenberg
The Examiner (1710): Texts: Ourcivilisation.com, Project Gutenberg
"A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue" (1712)
"On the Conduct of the Allies" (1713)
"Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation" (1713)
"A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Entered into Holy Orders" (1720)
"A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet" (1721)
Drapier's Letters (1724, 1725): Full text: Project Gutenberg
"Bon Mots de Stella" (1726): a curiously irrelevant appendix to "Gulliver's Travels"
"A Modest Proposal", perhaps the most notable satire in English, suggesting that the Irish should engage in cannibalism. (Written in 1729)
"An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"
"A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding"
Poems
An 1850 illustration of Swift
"Ode to the Athenian Society", Swift's first publication, printed in The Athenian Mercury in the supplement of Feb 14, 1691.
Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D.
"Baucis and Philemon" (1706–1709)
"A Description of the Morning" (1709)
"A Description of a City Shower" (1710)
"Cadenus and Vanessa" (1713)
"Phillis, or, the Progress of Love" (1719)
Stella's birthday poems:
1719.
1720.
1727.
"The Progress of Beauty" (1719–1720)
"The Progress of Poetry" (1720)
"A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General" (1722)
"To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair" (1725)
"Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers" (1726)
"The Furniture of a Woman's Mind" (1727)
"On a Very Old Glass" (1728)
"A Pastoral Dialogue" (1729)
"The Grand Question debated Whether Hamilton's Bawn should be turned into a Barrack or a Malt House" (1729)
"On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet" (1730)
"Death and Daphne" (1730)
"The Place of the Damn'd" (1731)
"A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed" (1731)
"Strephon and Chloe" (1731)
"Helter Skelter" (1731)
"Cassinus and Peter: A Tragical Elegy" (1731)
"The Day of Judgment" (1731)
"Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D." (1731–1732)
"An Epistle To A Lady" (1732)
"The Beasts' Confession to the Priest" (1732)
"The Lady's Dressing Room" (1732)
"On Poetry: A Rhapsody" (1733)
"The Puppet Show"
"The Logicians Refuted"
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift
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