Although all literature is, to various degrees, informed by, or better understood in the light of, the historical context that produced it, some literature is specifically written to speak to an immediate historical “present.” Swift was a prolific writer of topical or occasional literature. He, along with his friend Alexander Pope, dominated the English literary world between about 17. Swift is today best known for his prose fiction Gulliver’s Travels (1726), but actually published an enormous volume of poetry, fiction, political pamphlets, and journalism. He contented himself for much of his life with short visits to England to visit friends there. Although he far preferred the cosmopolitan and literary milieu of London, he was fated to spend most of his life in Dublin as a clergyman of the Anglican (i.e., Protestant) Church of Ireland. (1729) ( Online)īorn to English parents, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) liked to consider himself an Englishman who had, by mere chance, been born in Ireland. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public.
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