Jonathan Swift
1667 - 1745
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.Poems
- A Satirical Elegy On The Death Of A Late Famous General
- The Sick Lion and the Ass
- Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
- A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed
- The Lady's Dressing Room
- A Description of the Morning
- Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, DSPD
- The Progress of Poetry
- Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
- The Place of the Damned
- A Description of a City Shower
- Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers