Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer who is famous for works like Gulliver's Travels and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is also well known for his poetry and essays.

Notable Works

• The Battle of the Books (1704)
• A Tale of a Tub (1704)
• Isaac Bickerstaff-Partridge Letters (1708)
• The Journal to Stella (1710-1713)
• The Intelligencer (w Thomas Sheridan) (1710-????)
• On the Conduct of the Allies (1713)
• An Argument against Abolishing Christianity (1711)
• A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=SwiTong.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1
• The Drapier's Letters (1724, 1725, series of pamphlets)
• Gulliver's Travels (1726)
• A Modest Proposal (1729)
• The Lady's Dressing Room (1732)
• Cadenus and Vanessa (poem) (1726)
• The Grand Question Debated (1729)
• Verses on His Own Death (1731)
• A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (1731)
• Directions to Servants (1731)
• Three Sermons and Three Prayers (1744)