Jonathan Swift: Life And Works, Pseudonyms | English Literature

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Chapters:
0:00 Jonathan Swift – Life And Works
0:14 Introduction of Jonathan Swift
3:26 Pseudonyms
4:57 Important Works of Jonathan Swift
6:05 MCQ about Jonathan Swift

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1667- 1745
Irish author, clergy man and satirist
Trinity college in Dublin
Secretary to Sir William Temple, man of letters
Esther Johson – Stella
After Temple’s death started editing and publishing
Doctor of Divinity






Started with Whig and then moved to Tory
1713 – Dean of St. Patrick
Scriblerus Literary Club
1st political pamphlet – A Discourse on the Contests and Dissentions in Athens and Rome
Pseudonyms
Lemuel Gulliver, 
Isaac Bickerstaff, 
M.B Drapier
Anonymou


Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language
 Horatian and Juvenalian styles
Dean Swift - sobriquet
Swiftian


Important Works
A Tale of Tub
Drapiers Letters
A Modest proposal
Gulliver‘ Travels
The Battle of the Books
An Argument against Abolishing Christianity




John Ruskin named him as one of the three people in history who were the most influential for him.
George Orwell named him as one of the writers he most admired, despite disagreeing with him on almost every moral and political issue.
Modernist poet Edith Sitwell wrote a fictional biography of Swift, titled I Live Under a Black Sunand published in 1937.
Jake Arnott features him in his 2017 novel The Fatal Tree. #ugcnet #doorsteptutor #examrace