Jonathan Swift

1667–1745 · Ireland

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Biography

Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and cleric, considered the greatest prose satirist in English. Gulliver's Travels, his masterpiece, uses fantastical voyages to savage human folly and political corruption. He was also Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin and a fierce advocate for Irish interests against English exploitation.

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