Author:Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

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Anglo-Irish writer of novels, poetry and essays who also used the name Isaac Bickerstaff among other pseudonyms.
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Jonathan Swift

Works

• Essays
• Letters
• Journal to Stella
• Poems
• Journal Articles
• Political Works
• Satires and Puns
• Sermons and Religious Essays
• Other Prose
• Attributed to Swift

Major Works

• Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735)
• The Battle of the Books (1704)
• A Modest Proposal (1729)
• A Tale of a Tub (1704)
• Verses on His Own Death (1731)
• Letter to the 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer on the death of his daughter (1713)

Collections

• The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces (1886)
• Three Sermons and Three Prayers (1744)
• The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift (19 volumes) (1801)

Works about Swift

• "Swift, Jonathan," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Swift, Jonathan," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Swift, Jonathan," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• The Life of Dr. Swift, by Thomas Sheridan (1784)
• The Character of Dr. Swift After His Death
• "Mark Explains Dean Swift" in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field by Henry William Fischer