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Jonathan Swift

Also known as Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Simon Wagstaff

Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)

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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer from the late 1600s and early 1700s who used sharp satire and essays to comment on politics, religion, and society. He remains important because his witty and often biting works, which criticized human nature and power, continue to be widely read and studied today.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 30 November 1667
Died: 19 October 1745
Works: 2259

Top works

Miscellanea in two [i.e.five] volumes
A proposal for the universal use of Irish manufacture
A soldier and a scholar
A new journey to Paris
Swift on his age

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United States
Active from: 1989-12-13

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Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,083
Total plays: 25,213

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,739x
Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 44,683x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,522x
ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,127x
Fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation
· 2015 · cited 27,645x

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Quotes

“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.”
“Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.”
“There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.”
“'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.”
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.”
“We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.”

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date of birth: 1667-11-30
date of death: 1745-10-19
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pseudonym: Simon Wagstaff
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end of work period: 1745-00-00

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Jonathan Swift, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Article

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.

Swift also authored works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1708). 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 Horatian and Juvenalian styles. In 1713, he was appointed the dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was given the sobriquet "Dean Swift". His trademark deadpan and ironic style of writing, particularly in later works such as A Modest Proposal (1729), has led to such satire being subsequently termed as "Swiftian". He is also credited with inventing the popular woman's name "Vanessa" through his poem Cadenus and Vanessa (1726).