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JONATHAN SWIFT, the brilliant satirist - Coggle Diagram
JONATHAN SWIFT
life in ireland and england
swift was born
of English
parents in Ireland
he was also educated and became
a pariest there
became
on of the most influential writers
of the Augustan age
he wrote satirical works critical
of political corruption
and speccialy of the
prime minister
swift spent the latter part
of his life in ireland
were he became
a sort of national hero
he was
invalid during
his final years
because
of an illness that caused
the loss of this
mental powers
the brilliant satirist
all of swift
works are characterized
by his POLEMICAL GENIUS
expressed in varius literary
satirical vein
is also clear in his
most famous works
gulliver's travels
in which he mixed
UTOPIAAN FICTION AND
TRAVEL WRITING
in novel form
the book ideals with
the fantastic voyages
of lemuel gilliver
a surgein on a merchant ship
and is both a SATIRE
of human
it was first pubblished anonymously
in dublin
because of many dangeorus
allusions to contemporary
pilitics it contained