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22 de mai. de 2024 · Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726), he wrote such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and “A Modest Proposal” (1729).
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Jonathan Swift - Irish Satirist, Writer, Poet: With the...
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Sir William Temple, Baronet (born April 25, 1628, London,...
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Há 5 dias · Gulliver’s Travels, four-part satirical work by Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift, published anonymously in 1726 as Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. A keystone of English literature, it is one of the books that contributed to the emergence of the novel as a literary form in English. A parody of the then popular ...
24 de mai. de 2024 · A Modest Proposal, satiric essay by Jonathan Swift, published in pamphlet form in 1729. Presented in the guise of an economic treatise, the essay proposes that the country ameliorate poverty in Ireland by butchering the children of the Irish poor and selling them as food to wealthy English landlords.
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Há 6 dias · Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland. He spent much of his early adult life in England before returning to Dublin to serve as Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin for the last 30 years of his life.
22 de mai. de 2024 · Eva Jacek Schemers and Squanderers: Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal and Flann O'Brien's Slattery's Sago Saga Schemes proliferate in Swift and O'Brien. As maps ofpride and greed, contempt and vanity, schemes are perfect satirical targets.
19 de mai. de 2024 · Abstract. Abstract: Jonathan Swift imbued the weather, both real and imagined, with multivalent personal and political significance. In Gulliver's Travels (1726), he presented the science-fictional scenario of an island floating above the weather and blocking sunlight from the desolate land below.
15 de mai. de 2024 · Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist. Characteristics Fools Intelligence Men People Women Blushing Virtue. The bulk of mankind is as ...
