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Swift, Jonathan (1667 - 1745)

Index to poems

  1. Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers
  2. The Beasts' Confession
  3. A Description of the Morning
  4. The Lady's Dressing Room
  5. On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet
  6. A Satirical Elegy
  7. Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
  8. Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
  9. To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair
  10. Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
Biography: 
  • Probyn, Clive. "Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Given Name: 
Jonathan
Family Name: 
Swift
Birth Date: 
November 30, 1667
Death Date: 
October 19, 1745
Nationality: 
Irish
Family Relations: 
father : Jonathan Swift
mother : Abigail Swift
grandfather : Thomas Swift
sister : Jane Fenton

Education

Spoken Languages: 
French
Greek
Latin

Religion

Occupations

Literary Period: 
Augustan
Literary Movement: 
Unknown

Illness

Buried At: 
Cathedral of St. Patrick
First RPO Edition: 
1997