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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish [1] writer who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, [2] hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". His deadpan , ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal , has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".
A painting of Jonathan Swift. Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of English literature.Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states: "A young healthy child ...
Esther Johnson (13 March 1681 – 28 January 1728) was an Englishwoman known to have been a close friend of Jonathan Swift, known as "Stella".Whether or not she and Swift were secretly married, and if so why the marriage was never made public, is a subject of debate.
Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.
Anything Taylor Swift does is amazing right now, and it’s super fun to be a mom of girls right now and just [be] into it with them and be in the fanfare,” the 39-year-old mom tells Yahoo.
Emily Blunt has revealed how Taylor Swift did the “best thing” for her daughter that anyone ever has.. During a recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show, the 41-year-old actor spoke candidly ...
A Journal to Stella is a work by Jonathan Swift first partly published posthumously in 1766. It is a collection of letters that Swift wrote for Esther Johnson , his close friend and secret wife. Composition and dating
The three-part docuseries explores the actions of Jonathan Meijer, a Dutch man in his early 40s who has fathered, in his estimation, about 550 children via sperm donation since he was in his 20s.