Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jonathan Swift has received more than 2,868,438 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2019). Jonathan Swift is the 83rd most popular writer (up from 93rd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 4th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Writer.

Jonathan Swift is most famous for his satirical novel, Gulliver's Travels.