Monday, October 7, 2013

Internet Search on Jonathan Swift



    • He was born on November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland
    • He lived with and was supported by his uncle, because his father died 7 months prior to his birth, and his mother had no income and couldn't care for him.
    • He received his Bachelor's Degree from Trinity College, and started to pursue a Master's. But the abandoned this after political unrest broke out in Ireland, and he moved to England to start anew.
    • He wrote under many pseudonyms including Lemuel Gulliver and M.B. Drapier
    • He died on October 19, 1745. He had been afflicted by both Alzheimer's and Meniere's disease.
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"Jonathan Swift." - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Oct. 2013.
"Jonathan Swift Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 07 Oct. 2013.
"Jonathan Swift." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 10 July 2013. Web. 07 Oct. 2013

2. "There is an almost complete absence of sustained scholarship of Swift's A Modest Proposal."
-- George Wittkowsky

3. "Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."
--Jonathan Swift
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