Publisher's Synopsis
"Jonathan Swift 30 November 1667 - 19 October 1745 was an AngloIrish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, Dean Swift.Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub in1704, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity 1712, Gulliver's Travels 1726, and A Modest Proposal 1729. He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. "
