General background of the 18-th century English literature. The writers of the Enlightenment fought for freedom. The life of Jonathan Swift: short biography, youth, maturity, the collection of his prose works. Jonathan Swift and Gullivers Travels.
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Swift is known to students of literature as the writer of most bitter and utterly damning satire ever written in England - A Modest Proposal (1729). Jonathan is still loved and valued in Ireland as one of the first and greatest of the fighters for Irish freedom. Swift was born in Dublin. In 1742 at the age 74 Swift was declared insane. In 1745 he died and was buried with simplicity. It is interesting to know that he composed the Latin epitaph for himself. He made it in 1735 when he wrote his will. Translated it sounds like this: Here Lies the Body of Jonathan Swift Once Dean of the Cathedral Where Savage Indignation Can No Longer Tear His Heart Go, Passerby, And do, if you can, as he did A Mans Part in Defence of Human Freedom. Swift remains one of the very few who have made satire an effective weapon with which he attacks the enemy. Chapter 2. The life of Jonathan Swift 2.1 Biography. Youth. Writer. Maturity Biography Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 - 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish