The writing was classic Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal.” Imagine anyone opposed to funding a voluntary fire company who risk their lives to save lives and...
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This article talks about unusual laws in an empire where informers of false accusations are put to death if the accused are proven innocent.
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In his new biography “Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel,” John Stubbs explores the complex life of the man who penned “Gulliver's Travels.
93 months ago

The Harvard professor Leo Damrosch's commanding new biography, “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World,” does ample justice to a figure for whom religion and...
132 months ago

Three hundred and forty seven years ago today, Jonathan Swift was born. A poet and cleric, Swift published many satirical works under...
119 months ago

Jonathan Swift wrote “Gulliver's Travels” and blistering satire on human nature. He's relevant again. We'll bring back Jonathan Swift.
128 months ago

In its abridged form, Gulliver's Travels has become a children's classic. But in full, it is a misanthropic satire, scathing of politicians.
79 months ago

This week marks the 350th birthday of the brilliant Irish writer, born Nov. 30, 1667. That we know of Swift at all is one of the sweetest fortunes of literary...
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Jonathan Swift, (born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire.—died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin), Irish author, the foremost prose satirist in English...
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The letters, translated by an academic with the help of her three-year-old son, show Swift addressing Stella as his "poo poo ppt" – his poor poor poppet.
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