Editing Jonathan Swift (section)

{{short description|Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric (1667–1745)}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| honorific_prefix = [[The Very Reverend]]
| name             = Jonathan Swift
| image            = 
Charles Jervas (c.1675-1739) - Jonathan Swift - NPG 278 - National Portrait Gallery.jpg
| caption          = Portrait of Swift by [[Charles Jervas]] (1718), [[National Gallery of Ireland]] 
| birth_date       = {{birth date|df=yes|1667|11|30}}
| birth_place      = [[Dublin]], [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]]
| birth_name       = Jonathan Swift 
| death_date       = {{death date and age|df=yes|1745|10|19|1667|11|30}}
| death_place      = Dublin, Ireland
| resting_place    = [[St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin|St Patrick's Cathedral]], Dublin
| pseudonym        = {{cslist|[[Isaac Bickerstaff]]|M. B. Drapier|Lemuel Gulliver|Simon Wagstaff|Esq.}}
| nationality      = Irish 
| occupation       = {{hlist|Writer|poet|satirist|political [[pamphleteer]]|priest}}
| language         = [[English language|English]]
| education        = [[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| period           = [[Stuart Restoration|Restoration]], [[Georgian era]]
| genres           = {{hlist|[[Satire]]|[[parable]]|[[polemic]]|[[novel]]|[[essay]]|[[poetry]]|[[letter (message)|correspondence]]|''other''}}
| subjects         = {{hlist|Religion|politics|''other''}}
| movement         = {{cslist|[[Classicism]]|[[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]]}}
| years_active     = From 1696
| notableworks     = {{plainlist|
* ''[[A Tale of a Tub]]'' (1704)
* ''[[Drapier's Letters]]'' (1735)
* ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' (1726)
* ''[[A Modest Proposal]]'' (1729)
}}
| partner          = [[Esther Johnson]] (?)
| signature        = Jonathan Swift signature.svg
}}

'''Jonathan Swift''' (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an [[Anglo-Irish]]<ref name="Britannica">{{Britannica|577008}}</ref> writer, essayist, [[satirist]], and [[Anglican]] [[cleric]]. In 1713, he became the [[Dean (Christianity)|dean]] of [[St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin]],<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.online-literature.com/swift/ |title=Online literature |contribution=Swift |access-date=17 December 2011 |archive-date=3 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803044307/http://www.online-literature.com/swift/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and was given the [[sobriquet]] "Dean Swift". His trademark [[deadpan]] and [[ironic]] style of writing, particularly in works such as ''[[A Modest Proposal]]'' (1729), has led to such satire being subsequently termed as "Swiftian".<ref>"What higher accolade can a reviewer pay to a contemporary satirist than to call his or her work [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Swiftian ''Swiftian''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023230958/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Swiftian |date=23 October 2017}}?" Frank Boyle, "Johnathan Swift", Ch 11 in ''A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern'' (2008), edited by Ruben Quintero, John Wiley & Sons, {{ISBN|0470657952}}.</ref> He wrote the satirical book ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' (1726), which became his best-known publication and popularised the fictional island of [[Lilliput and Blefuscu|Lilliput]]. Following the remarkable success of his works, Swift came to be regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the [[Georgian era]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1700-1830/jonathan-swift-context-1?format=HB&isbn=9781108831437|title=Jonathan Swift in Context|journal=English Literature 1700-1830|publisher=Cambridge University Press|first1=Joseph|last1=Hone|first2=Pat|last2=Rogers|year=May 2024|location=UK|ISBN=9781108831437}}</ref> and one of the foremost prose satirists in the history of [[English literature]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1700-1830/swifts-travels-eighteenth-century-satire-and-its-legacy?format=HB&isbn=9780521879552|title=Swift's Travels: Eighteenth-Century Satire and its Legacy|first1=Nicholas|last1=Hudson|first2=Aaron|last2=Santesso|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=October 2008|location=UK|ISBN= 9780521879552}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jonathan-swift|title=Jonathan Swift: Poetry Foundation|year=2018|location=Chicago, Illinois}}</ref>

Swift also authored works such as ''[[A Tale of a Tub]]'' (1704), ''[[An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity]]'' (1712), and ''A Modest Proposal'' (1729). He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—including [[Lemuel Gulliver]], [[Isaac Bickerstaff]], M. B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the [[Satire#Classifications|Horatian and Juvenalian]] styles.