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• Jonathan Swift

  

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  Date of birth:

  Nov 30, 1667

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  • Writer,
  • Novelist,
  • Priest,
  • Poet,
  • Pamphleteer

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  Date of death:

  Oct 19, 1745

  Jonathan Swift (30 November, 1667 – 19 October, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. He is remembered for works such...

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• Irish fiction

  

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