Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels

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Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)

• Was born on the 7th of Nov. in Dublin
• His father was Irish born and his mother was born
  in England
• Kilkenny College, Trinity College in Dublin, M.A.
  from Hertford College, Oxford
• Sir William Temple at Moor Park, Farnham

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• Esther Johnson
• Ménière's disease
• Prebend of Kilroot
• Politically active, especially 1710-1713
• the Martinus Scriblerus Club with Alexander Pope,
  John Gay and John Arbuthnot
• Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin
• Was mentally ill before death

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Major works

• A Tale of a Tub
• Battle of the Books
• A Modest Proposal
• Drapier's Letters
• poem "Cadenus and Vanessa"
• The Journal to Stella
• Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World,
  in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a
  surgeon, and then a captain of several ships

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Gullivers Travels

• 1726, amended 1735
• Very popular
• divided into four parts

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Part I A Voyage to Lilliput(May 4, 1699 April
13, 1702)
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Part II A Voyage to Brobdingnag(June 20, 1702
June 3, 1706)
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Part III A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi,
Glubbdubdrig, Luggnagg, and Japan(August 5, 1706
April 16, 1710)
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Part IV A Voyage to Houyhnhnms(September 7,
1710 July 2, 1715)
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