This is a brief biography of the greatest satirist Jonathan Swift, an author “Gulliver’s Travels“. The voice is by Ivona Brian (British) with English subtitle.
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—son of the English lawyer Jonathan Swift the elder, was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 30 November 1667
—grew up there in the care of his uncle before attending Trinity College at the age of 14, where he stayed for 7 years, graduating in 1688
—in that year—became the secretary of Sir William Temple, an English politician and member of the Whig party
—in 1694—took religious orders in the Church of Ireland and then spent a year as a country parson
—then spent further time in the service of temple before returning to Ireland to become the chaplain of the earl of Berkeley
—meanwhile, had begun to write satires on the political and religious corruption surrounding him, working on A Tale of a Tub, which supports the position of the Anglican Church against its critics on the left and the right, and The Battle of the Books, which argues for the supremacy of
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