Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer. He spent much of his adolescence in England before returning to Dublin to serve as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral for the next 30 years.

Swift’s greatest satire, Gulliver’s Travels, was published in 1726. In the years since its publication, Gulliver’s Travels has become a children’s classic. Aside from this renowned novel, he also wrote shorter works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and A Modest Proposal (1729). Swift is largely regarded as the foremost literary satirist in English literature history.