John Stubbs
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Jonathan Swift's world-famous books from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal are unparalleled in their piercing critique of modern society. Half-orphaned, a Dubliner by birth, but a man who would always insist he was English, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was a figure of great contradictions. An essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric who became dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Swift satirized the powerful but aspired to political...