The Poetical Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin. Volume 1


  • Author: Jonathan Swift
  • An Irish priest and one-time secretary to Sir William Temple, Swift is best remembered for Gulliver's Travels, an excoriating satire on all aspects of English life. Deeply concerned with the state of Ireland, he wrote a series of satires in which he blamed England for the "Irish problem." (In one of these, "A Modest Proposal," he drily suggested that Irish children be slaughtered and served as food to upper-class Englishmen.) Chronically ill for much of his life, Swift eventually suffered a paralytic stroke and died amidst rumors that he had lost his sanity.

  • ISBN: 9780543877604
  • ISBN: 9780543877598
  • Book details: This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by the Apollo Press in Edinburgh, 1778. This book is in English. This book contains 220 pages.
  • Edition: Elibron Classics
  • Book ID: 10013075
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