Jonathan Swift, as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, produced many sermons during his tenure from 1713 to 1745. Although Swift is better known...
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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for...
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Esther Johnson (section Friendship with Swift)
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...
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A Modest Proposal (redirect from A modest Proposal for preventing the Children of Poor People from being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for making them Beneficial to the Publick)
written and published anonymously by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that poor people in Ireland could ease their...
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Esther Vanhomrigh (category Jonathan Swift)
1688 – 2 June 1723), an Irish woman of Dutch descent, was a longtime lover and correspondent of Jonathan Swift. Swift's letters to her were published after...
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A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704. The Tale is a prose parody divided...
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An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (redirect from Argument to Prove that the Abolishing of Christianity in England May, as Things Now Stand Today, be Attended with Some Inconveniences, and Perhaps not Produce Those Many Good Effects Proposed Thereby)
An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity is a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift defending Christianity, and in particular, Anglicanism, against contemporary...
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Occurrences) was a newspaper commenced on 3 August 1710 and edited by Jonathan Swift from 2 November 1710 to 1714. It promoted a Tory perspective on British...
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King Charles the Martyr (category Charles I of England)
celebrated 30 January in mockery of Charles's death Eikon Basilike "On the Martyrdom of King Charles I", sermon by Jonathan Swift "Worship > Common Worship >...
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Drapier's Letters (category Works by Jonathan Swift)
name for a series of seven pamphlets written between 1724 and 1725 by the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Jonathan Swift, to arouse public opinion...
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