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Born
This is the day Jonathan Swift was born -
Childhood
He had a difficult childhood because he was poor and his father died shortly after he was born, he learned to read at age three and his uncle paid him for his studies. He didn't stand out much but he could get a degree in fine arts -
Adulthood
At nineteen he got an opportunity to work as a secretary. He was transferred to England where he found an eight-year-old orphan who turned out to be an illegitimate daughter of temper a young man who had died a while ago, during his ten years he continued with his studies and he became a priest, was quite criticized and after two years he became secretary again, when he returned that he found the orphan turned into a smart, social and popular fifteen-year-old girl. Swift had fallen in love -
Your stay in ireland
He went to Ireland for a while and took care of several churches, in a town that there were going to be thirty people but in the end there were fifteen, and in the church there was a garden which allowed him to cultivate his own garden. At that time his cousin dies and decides to return to Ireland, so as he had a doctorate in theology anonymously published his first political pamphlet entitled A Discourse on the Contests and Dissentions in Athens and Rome -
First work
he wrote this work when he fell in love with the orphan girl saying her qualities and how she liked it . He named it in a book called The Battle Between Old and Modern Books, although I don't publish it until 1704 -
criticize the queen
In 1704 he wrote The Tale of the Coop, a satire that criticized his contemporaries and deeply disgusted Queen Anne, who considered her blasphemous; in addition, in The Windsor Prophecy Swift, with surprising lack of tact, it was allowed to advise the Queen who she should trust -
His first theological work
in 1708 a deeply acidic theological work, An argument against the abolition of Christianity / An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, against contemporary criticisms of Christianity, especially the Anglican -
The return to ireland
When he returned to Ireland, he did it accompanied by Stella, now a 20-year-old girl. Some claim that they married secretly in 1716 -
the councilor of the government
Between 1710 he was advisor to the Tory government, which reached power precisely in 1710. During those years he became a very powerful character and feared for the causticity of his satirical humor, and thus published his pamphlet The conduct of the Allies in which attacked the Whig government for having been unable to agree to peace with France in the War of the Succession of Spain, preparing public opinion for the peace of Utrecht that secretly negotiated the Tory party and was signed in 1713 -
Bye dear friend
in 1713 his friends Lord Robert Harley, I. Earl of Oxford, and Bolingbroke got him the office of Dean of the St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. His career stopped at this point, as Queen Ana's hostility prevented him from continuing to progress. -
Gulliver's travels
He published anonymously the four parts of Gulliver's Travels in 1726, although the first two were probably written around 1720; It is a complex satire and its best known masterpiece (another is the Tale of the barrel), but today it is read as a work for children, although it is in fact a satire against the human race, a parody of the usual travel books at the time and also a philosophical tale that greatly influenced those who wrote his contemporary -
The death of a good man
He died on October 19, 1745, leaving most of his fortune to the poor and arranging for an asylum to be built at his expense.3 He is buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, near Stella and under an epitaph he himself He wrote in Latin: "Here is Jonathan Swift's body
