Jonathan Swift was a satirist, essayist, novelist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and is best known today for his novel Gulliver's Travels (1726). Other major works include: A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, he is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, MB Drapier – or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
