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Jonathan Swift
(1667–1745)

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Anglo-Irish writer of novels, poetry and essays who also used the name Isaac Bickerstaff among other pseudonyms.
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Works

Major Works

Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735)
The Battle of the Books (1704)
A Modest Proposal (1729)
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
Verses on His Own Death (1731)
Letter to the 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer on the death of his daughter (1713)

Collections

The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces (1886)
Three Sermons and Three Prayers (1744)
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift (19 volumes) (1801)

Works about Swift

The Life of Dr. Swift, by Thomas Sheridan (1784)
"Jonathan Swift" in The lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works (1783), by Samuel Johnson, Volume 3, pp.336-402.
"Swift", in The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century (1853), by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Character of Dr. Swift After His Death
"Mark Explains Dean Swift" in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field (1922), by Henry William Fischer
Jonathan Swift: the Leslie Stephen Lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 26 May 1917 by Charles Whibley
"Swift, Jonathan," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Swift, Jonathan," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Swift, Jonathan," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works about Swift's works

“Tale of a Tub, A, and The Battle of the Books”, in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York, 1920

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1931, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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