Swift, Jonathan

Cultural

An eighteenth-century Irish author known for his skill at satire. Two of his best-known works are Gulliver's Travels and “A Modest Proposal.”

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Swift, Jonathan, xviii n., lx, 212, 303, 328, 377.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

Swift, Jonathan, 34, 42, 44, 48, 49, 50, 51, 62, 151-175.

From The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by Dennis, John

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