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Nov 12, 2013 · In this deeply researched biography, Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift’s life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift’s parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift’s public version of his life—the one accepted until recently—was ...
Jonathan Swift Biography. Jonathan Swift was born into a poor family that included his mother (Abigail) and his sister (Jane). His father, a noted clergyman in England, had died seven months before Jonathan's birth. There is not much known of Swift's childhood, and what is reported is not always agreed upon by biographers.
Jonathan Swift is the world’s most misunderstood children’s writer. Though his classic book Gulliver’s Travels is often referred to as youth reading, it is in fact an audacious satire on the ...
Born in Dublin posthumously to an Anglican father Jonathan Swift and Anglican mother, Jonathan Swift depended on the generosity of his uncle for both his upbringing and education. He studied at Kilkenny School and then at Trinity College, Dublin, from which he graduated in 1689. After a frustratingly unproductive stint in England as personal ...
Jonathan Swift Biography. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland, on November 30, 1667. The son of an English lawyer, he grew up there in the care of his uncle before attending Trinity College at the age of fourteen, where he stayed for seven years, graduating in 1688. In that year, he became the secretary for Sir William Temple, an English ...
Dec 10, 2013 · In this extract from Leo Damrosch’s thoroughly researched biography, the author introduces Swift’s early years and describes how his family found their way to Ireland. “The story that Jonathan Swift told is that he came into the world on November 30, 1667, in the house of his uncle Godwin Swift, in a little Dublin alley known as Hoey’s Court.
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Plot Summary. Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World is a biography published in 2013 by the American author and historian Leo Damrosch. It covers the life of Jonathan Swift who in the eighteenth century wrote Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of the Tub. Many scholars consider Swift to be one of the greatest satirists and ...
