A Modest Proposal And A Tale Of A Tub

Jonathan Swift has written many literature classics such as, “Gulliver’s Travels,” “A Modest Proposal,” and “A Tale of a Tub.” He was coined a major figure of English literature and “a satirist, cleric and political pamphleteer” (Jonathan Swift, 2012). Along with his most classical literature, Swift has written approximately 17 essays, tracts, pamphlets, periodicals , 34 poems, five personal writings, and five sermons or prayers.

Jonathan Swift was born November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland. His father, Jonathan Swift, had passed away seven months before which left the family very poor. Abigail Erick, Jonathan’s mother, returned to England with Jonathan’s sister and left Jonathan to be cared for by his influential uncle, Godwin

degree in 1686. He continued studying for his M.A. degree but stopped because of political issues during the Glorious Revolution in 1688. Swift moved to Leicester, England where his mother helped him get a position as secretary and personal assistant for Sir William Temple who was a retired diplomat with influential friends in Moore Park. With Temple’s help, Swift was accepted into Oxford University where he graduated in 1692 with a M.A. degree. Though Swift moved back to Ireland and served as an Anglican priest, in 1696, Temple asked Swift to return to help him with writing, managing, and publishing his memoirs up until Temple’s death in 1699. During this time period, Swift wrote quite a bit of literary works of his

Afterward in 1704, Swift published, “A Tale of the Tub” which showed his humorous view on religion. After Swift joined the Tories in 1710, he wrote many “noted political pamphlets including, A Letter concerning the Sacramental Test, the Sentiments of a Church of England Man, and a Project for the Advancement of Religion, The Conduct of the Allies (1711), The Public Spirit of the Whigs (1714), Meditation on a Broomstick (1703) and A Modest Proposal .” Jonathan Swift began a literary club and became dean of St. Patrick’s in Dublin. He continued writing using a different name such as for the Draiper Letters (1724) and used M.B. Draiper. The same for Gulliver’s Travels he used the pen name, Lemuel Gulliver in 1726. Gulliver’s Travels became a bestseller, a literature satirical masterpiece, which resulted from his years in politics with Whigs and Tories. The work was about Captain Lemuel Gulliver’s travels told in first person about political and social conditions in the 18 th century England and had inspired theater and film variations and