Swift The Great

          Jonathan Swift, the Irish author, was a clergyman and satirist. He was born in Dublin on November 30,1667, and he died October 19, 1745. Shortly before Swift was born, his father passed away, and  his mother tried to take care of him under her income but couldn't. She gave him to his uncle, and Swift grew up with his uncle who gave him the best care, education, and life possible. Swift went and received a Bachelor's degree from Trinity College and then worked as a statesman's assistant, soon to become dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. In his writing career, Swift has written many pieces, his most famous being his 1728 book, Gulliver's Travels. He's also written pieces such as A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, Drapier's Letters, and A Modest Proposal.

Jonathan Swift has written many great things, and has many great quotes to share as well.

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." (Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books, preface (1704)).

He has influenced many others with his brilliant writing and challenging styles, some enough to have quotes about him in their own pieces.

"As fierce a beak and talon as ever struck -- as strong a wing as ever beat, belong to Swift. [...] One can gaze, and not without awe and pity, at the lonely eagle chained behind the bars [...] An immense genius: an awful downfall and ruin. So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling." (William Makepeace Thackeray, The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, (1853)).

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