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1. B Y R E H A N V I P I N
Jonathan Swift

2. Contents
1. Synopsis.
2. Early life.
3. Youth.
4. Famous works.
5. About major works.
6. Later life.
7. Death.
8. The end.

3. Synopsis
 Jonathan Swift was born on 30 November 1667 at
Dublin , Ireland. He died on 19 October 1745
 Jonathan swift was a clergyman, writer, satirist and a
poet.
 He received a bachelors' degree from Trinity college.
 He became the dean of St. Patrick’s cathedral .
 He is best known for his 1728 book Gulliver’s travels.
 He is also known as M. B. Drapier ,Lemuel Gulliver
and Isaac Bickerstaff.

4. Early life
 Jonathan Swift was the only son of his father
Jonathan Swift and his mother Abigail Erick.
 His father and his cousins fought in the English civil
war. But his father died 7 months before his birth.
 His uncle sent him to school with his cousin to
Kilkenny college. Later he went to Trinity university.
 He was also a very close relative of Sir Walter
Raleigh, a very famous writer and a soldier.
 His father had an estate in England which was run
by his mother which is why she had to go away .

5. Youth
 Jonathan Swift attended Dublin University , from
which he received his B.A. in 1686.
 Swift lived in a place called Moore park where he met
Esther Johnson whom he taught her for the rest of
her life . He became the assistant of William Temple.
 He received his M.A. in Hart Hall, Oxford in 1692.
 He was to become a priest of a church in Ireland.
 But he was miserable at this post and returned back.
 He wrote a book called “the battle of books ” in reply
to the critics of his master Temple’s book.

6. Famous works
 He started to write after his master Temple died ,he
wrote a lot of books in his memory e.g. tale of a tub.
 He gardened and preached for many years by the house
provided by the church near a farm.
 His first books name was “ A Discourse on the Contests
and Dissentions in Athens and Rome.”
 During the time of troy leadership the king made
Jonathan swift editor of a newspaper “The Express.”
 He found The Martinus Scriblerus Club in 1713 and made
friend like Alexander Pope, John Gay, and John
Arbuthnot .
 He published a political pamphlet which attacked the
Whig government for their unstable management.

7. List of writings
1. Gulliver’s travels.
2. A tale of a tub.
3. The battle of the books.
4. Drapier’s letters.
5. Journal to Stella.
6. Poems of Jonathan
swift.
7. Cadenus and Vanessa.
8. Directions to servants.
9. The complete poems.
10. A voyage to the country
of Houyhnhnms.
11. A modest proposal.
12. A modest proposal and
other satires.

8. About major works.
 Swift’s first major work was “A tale of a tub.” in 1704.
 It has shown the use of techniques which he would be
using in his later works it is also humorous .
 It was targeted towards many people and their beliefs for
e.g. the critics. But it was limited.
 His second book “The battle of books” was a short satire
written in 1704.it is about a fight between the books in
the kings library. It also ended a long debate about
Epistles in a humorous way.
 Drapier's letters were a series of pamphlets against the
monopoly of the government to a man called Woods to
provide them copper coins.

9. Later life
 In the year 1728 Jonathan swift published his best known
book ,“Gulliver's travels," anonymously in London with a
help from his friends.
 It was an immediate success since it was published and
has never been out of print and interestingly it points to
the main historical events during that time.
 Not long after the celebration of this work, Swift's long-
time love and student, Esther Johnson, fell ill. She died
in January 1728.
 This moved him to write a book in her honor called “The
death of Mrs. Johnson.”
 In 1742, Swift suffered from a stroke and lost the ability
to speak.

10. death
 On October 19, 1745, Jonathan Swift died. He was
laid to rest next to Esther Johnson inside of Dublin's
St. Patrick's Cathedral.
 He wrote his own epitaph and it was translated from
Latin into English
 In his honor the Irish government had bought out a
new currency note with swift’s picture on it’s front
face.

11. The end