Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an author and a clergyman best remembered for his great sophisticated satire of human nature, Gulliver’s Travels. Playful, funny, and critical of his targets, Swift was prolific. His prose takes up fourteen volumes; his correspondence, three volumes; and his poetry, a one-thousand-page volume. Shorter works include A Tale of a Tub and A Modest Proposal. He is buried in Dublin with an epitaph of his own composition, indicating that he lies “where savage indignation can no longer tear his heart.”
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- When I Come to Be Old, an essay, in Stories of the Week: 2016–2017