onathan Swift(30 November 1667 -19 October 1745) was an Anglo-lrish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St.

Patrick´s Cathedral, Dublin.He is remembered for vvorks such as Gulliver´s Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier´s Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Svvift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well knovvn for his poetry. Svvift originally published ali of his vvorks under pseudonymssuch as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier or anonymously. He İs also knovvn for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.