Swift, Jonathan

Swift, Jonathan (1667 - 1745)

Index to poems
  1. A Description of the Morning
  2. A Satirical Elegy
  3. Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers
  4. On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet
  5. Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
  6. Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
  7. The Beasts' Confession
  8. The Lady's Dressing Room
  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
  • Grammar school at Kilkenny



  • B.A. Hart Hall, Oxford



  • M.A. Hart Hall, Oxford



  • D.D. Dublin



  • B.A. Trinity College, Dublin



Religion
Honours
Occupations
  • Dean



  • Historiographer to the Queen



Literary Period
Augustan
Literary Movement
Unknown
Illness
Buried At
Cathedral of St. Patrick
First RPO Edition
1997