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- 3. Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish poet, writer and cleric who gained reputation as a great political
- 4. Childhood Jonathan Swift was born on 30 November 1667 in Dublin, Ireland to an Irish father
- 5. Jonathan, who was second child and the only son of his parents, was born seven months
- 6. After loosing his parent's contact, Jonathan stayed with his uncle Godwin, who sent him to Kilkenny
- 7. Degree in 1686. He had to drop his further studies after a political clash broke in
- 9. Swift left Temple in 1690 because of his persisting illness but returned in the next year.
- 10. Jonathan received his M.A. degree from the Oxford University in 1692 and left Moor Park and
- 11. Swift wrote The Battle of the Books in 1690, a satire, which was finally published in
- 13. Jonathan as a Writer Swift was awarded Doctor of Divinity from Trinity College, Dublin in 1702.
- 14. With the success of these two, he began to achieve excellence as a writer and came
- 15. As his urges to the Whig administration of Lord Godolphin went unheeded, he published a political
- 16. Tory government, an opposition party to the Whig government, recruited Swift as editor of The Examiner
- 18. Controversies over Personal Life Swift was widely believed to share an intimate and close relationship with
- 19. The two maintained a close but ambiguous relationship for the rest of his life. They were
- 20. But it was certain that she held a special place in his heart throughout his life.
- 22. Later Life and Death
- 23. With Whig government coming to power, Jonathan Swift left England for one more time. He returned
- 24. Some of his masterpiece, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World and Gulliver’s Travels also
- 25. With the help of them, Swift anonymously published his book Gulliver’s Travels in 1726. The book
- 26. Esther Johnson’s death on 28 January 1728 shattered him and pushed him in to a state
- 27. Moved by her death, Swift began to write extensively on death and in 1731, he wrote
- 29. In accordance to his wishes, he was buried near the grave of Esther Johnson and his
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