Jonathan Swift, an Irish author and satirist, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1667.
Jonathan Swift, born on November 30, 1667, was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican priest who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, earning him the moniker "Dean Swift." Swift is well known for writings such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against the Abolition of Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1728). (1729). He is recognised by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as the English language's best prose satirist, although his poetry is less widely known.
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