Selected Prose Works of Jonathan Swift
New York: Chanticleer Press, 1949.
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Jonathan Swift
birth name: Isaac Bickerstaff
born: 11/30/1667
died: 10/19/1745
nationality: Ireland
Biography
Irish author and dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (from 1713), the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated Gulliver's Travels (1726), he wrote such noted satires as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and A Modest Proposal (1729). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore