Brief biography J Swift

Quotes about the author Jonathan Swift-Anglo-Irish satirist writer, publicist, philosopher, poet and public figure. One of his main works is the satiric and fiction tetralogy of Gulliver's Travels. Born on November 30 in Dublin, Ireland. In childhood, the boy was very painful, suffered from Meniere's disease - disease of the inner ear. The childhood of the future writer passed in a poor family, he lived with his mother.

Later, thanks to the brother of his late father, the boy entered the training at the Kilkenny gymnasium. Next-in the Trinity College for the Bachelor. During the “glorious revolution” he was forced to move to England, where he worked as a secretary for statesman Sir William Templa. Young Jonathan Swift met the employer's daughter and, despite the difference in the age of fifteen, they loved each other until the end of their days.

According to rumors, the couple got married in a year. Under his influence, the future author began to work first on the short essays, and after the death of Temple he published his memoirs. Then, for about ten years, a creative pause lasted, Swift served in the church, at the same time interested in politics. In the year, the author anonymously published the work “The Tale of the Barrel” and the pamphlet “Battle of Books”.

Since the year, it was political pamphlets that have become the main fruits of the author’s creative activity. A significant impulse to more active work was the appointment of the rector of the Dublin Cathedral of St. Patrick in the year. Jonathan Swift had the opportunity to voice his own political views. In addition to Gulliver's travels, the writer is known for other works: “Modest Supply”, “Letters of the Cloth” and so on.

The recognition of Jonathan Swift as a writer is significant that the book “The Adventures of Gulliver” did not go out of the press from the very first publication. She was almost immediately translated into German, Dutch, Italian and other languages.

And only in the first three months it was reprinted three times. The work “The Tale of the Barrel” was special recognition, about which Voltaire was very flattering, but which later ended up in the list of books prohibited by the Vatican. The rest of the writer’s works were also popular in the wide circles of readers, but the story of Lemuel Gulliver still remained the main on the creative path of Jonathan Swift.

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