Jonathan Swift was an Irish clergyman, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer and poet. Some of his most famous works include Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, and A Modest Proposal. He received his bachelor's degree from Trinity College in Dublin and later became the Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. Throughout his career, Swift used satire to critique politics, science, philosophy and other aspects of society. He never married but had a close relationship with Esther Johnson, who predeceased him. Swift suffered a stroke later in life and died in 1745 at the age of 78.

1. B Y R E H A N V I P I N
Jonathan Swift

2. Contents
1. Synopsis.
2. Early life.
3. Youth.
4. Famous works.
5. About major works.
6. Later life.
7. Death.
8. The end.

3. Synopsis
 Jonathan Swift was born on 30 November 1667 at
Dublin , Ireland. He died on 19 October 1745
 Jonathan swift was a clergyman, writer, satirist and a
poet.
 He received a bachelors' degree from Trinity college.
 He became the dean of St. Patrick’s cathedral .
 He is best known for his 1728 book Gulliver’s travels.
 He is also known as M. B. Drapier ,Lemuel Gulliver
and Isaac Bickerstaff.

4. Early life
 Jonathan Swift was the only son of his father
Jonathan Swift and his mother Abigail Erick.
 His father and his cousins fought in the English civil
war. But his father died 7 months before his birth.
 His uncle sent him to school with his cousin to
Kilkenny college. Later he went to Trinity university.
 He was also a very close relative of Sir Walter
Raleigh, a very famous writer and a soldier.
 His father had an estate in England which was run
by his mother which is why she had to go away .

5. Youth
 Jonathan Swift attended Dublin University , from
which he received his B.A. in 1686.
 Swift lived in a place called Moore park where he met
Esther Johnson whom he taught her for the rest of
her life . He became the assistant of William Temple.
 He received his M.A. in Hart Hall, Oxford in 1692.
 He was to become a priest of a church in Ireland.
 But he was miserable at this post and returned back.
 He wrote a book called “the battle of books ” in reply
to the critics of his master Temple’s book.

6. Famous works
 He started to write after his master Temple died ,he
wrote a lot of books in his memory e.g. tale of a tub.
 He gardened and preached for many years by the house
provided by the church near a farm.
 His first books name was “ A Discourse on the Contests
and Dissentions in Athens and Rome.”
 During the time of troy leadership the king made
Jonathan swift editor of a newspaper “The Express.”
 He found The Martinus Scriblerus Club in 1713 and made
friend like Alexander Pope, John Gay, and John
Arbuthnot .
 He published a political pamphlet which attacked the
Whig government for their unstable management.

7. List of writings
1. Gulliver’s travels.
2. A tale of a tub.
3. The battle of the books.
4. Drapier’s letters.
5. Journal to Stella.
6. Poems of Jonathan
swift.
7. Cadenus and Vanessa.
8. Directions to servants.
9. The complete poems.
10. A voyage to the country
of Houyhnhnms.
11. A modest proposal.
12. A modest proposal and
other satires.

8. About major works.
 Swift’s first major work was “A tale of a tub.” in 1704.
 It has shown the use of techniques which he would be
using in his later works it is also humorous .
 It was targeted towards many people and their beliefs for
e.g. the critics. But it was limited.
 His second book “The battle of books” was a short satire
written in 1704.it is about a fight between the books in
the kings library. It also ended a long debate about
Epistles in a humorous way.
 Drapier's letters were a series of pamphlets against the
monopoly of the government to a man called Woods to
provide them copper coins.

9. Later life
 In the year 1728 Jonathan swift published his best known
book ,“Gulliver's travels," anonymously in London with a
help from his friends.
 It was an immediate success since it was published and
has never been out of print and interestingly it points to
the main historical events during that time.
 Not long after the celebration of this work, Swift's long-
time love and student, Esther Johnson, fell ill. She died
in January 1728.
 This moved him to write a book in her honor called “The
death of Mrs. Johnson.”
 In 1742, Swift suffered from a stroke and lost the ability
to speak.

10. death
 On October 19, 1745, Jonathan Swift died. He was
laid to rest next to Esther Johnson inside of Dublin's
St. Patrick's Cathedral.
 He wrote his own epitaph and it was translated from
Latin into English
 In his honor the Irish government had bought out a
new currency note with swift’s picture on it’s front
face.

11. The end