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Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, “Dean Swift”.
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub , An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity , Gulliver’s Travels , and A Modest Proposal . He is regarded by the Encyclopdia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry