Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels Liisa Laur 11 a

Jonathan Swift “Gulliver’s Travels” Liisa Laur 11. a

Jonathan Swift(1667 -1745) • Was born on the 7 th of • • • Nov. in Dublin His father was Irish born and his mother was born in England Kilkenny College, Trinity College in Dublin, M. A. from Hertford College, Oxford Sir William Temple at Moor Park, Farnham

• Esther Johnson • Ménière's disease • Prebend of Kilroot • Politically active, • • • especially 1710 -1713 the Martinus Scriblerus Club with Alexander Pope, John Gay and John Arbuthnot Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin Was mentally ill before death

Major works • “A Tale of a Tub” • “Battle of the Books” • “A Modest Proposal” • “Drapier's Letters” • poem "Cadenus and Vanessa" “The Journal to Stella” • • Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships

“Gulliver’s Travels” • 1726, • • amended 1735 Very popular divided into four parts

Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput (May 4, 1699 — April 13, 1702)

Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag (June 20, 1702 — June 3, 1706)

Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrig, Luggnagg, and Japan (August 5, 1706 — April 16, 1710)

Part IV: A Voyage to Houyhnhnms (September 7, 1710 – July 2, 1715)

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