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As with a moral view designed
To cure the vices of mankind;
His vein, ironically grave,
Exposed the fool, and lashed the knave; - Jonathan Swift Attribution: Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, clergyman. Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift (l. 15–18). . . The Complete Poems [Jonathan Swift]. Pat Rogers, ed. (1983) Penguin Books.

Categories: Clergyman, Morality, Satirist, Vices

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Jonathan Swift

Titles by Jonathan Swift:

• Gulliver's Travels

Salem on History:

• Jonathan Swift

eNotes:

• Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)

Encyclopedia:

• Swift, Jonathan (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Jonathan Swift (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Jonathan Swift (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Jonathan Swift (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)
• Jonathan Swift (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Jonathan Swift (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

Literary Criticism:

• A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift (Literary Criticism (1400-1800))
• Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels (Literary Criticism (1400-1800))

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Jonathan Swift is born
• Jonathan Swift publishes A Tale of a Tub or Battle of the Books
• Jonathan Swift publishes An Argument against Abolishing Christianity
• Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels
• Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children Of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents, or The Country, And for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick
• Jonathan Swift dies