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  • 4.4: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (excerpt)
    https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Skyline_College/LIT_231%3A_Survey_of_British_Literature_I/04%3A_Neoclassicism_and_the_Eighteenth_Century_(1660_-1697)/4.04%3A_Jonathan_Swift's_Gulliver's_Travels_(excerpt)
    Born in Dublin, Jonathan Swift depended on the generosity of his uncle for both his upbringing and education. He studied at Kilkenny School and then at Trinity College, Dublin, from which he graduated...Born in Dublin, Jonathan Swift depended on the generosity of his uncle for both his upbringing and education. He studied at Kilkenny School and then at Trinity College, Dublin, from which he graduated in 1689. His Gulliver’s Travels (1726) vilified humankind for its misdirected pride and various atrocities against humanity. The force, range, and bitterness of this text’s indictment against humans who wrongly assume their own rationality strike home even today.
  • 4.7: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
    https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/British_and_Irish_Literature/British_Literature_I_-_Middle_Ages_to_the_Eighteenth_Century_and_Neoclassicism_(Robinson_and_Getty)/04%3A_Neoclassicism_and_the_Eighteenth_Century_(1660-1797)/4.07%3A_Jonathan_Swift_(1667-1745)
    Born in Dublin, Jonathan Swift depended on the generosity of his uncle for both his upbringing and education. He studied at Kilkenny School and then at Trinity College, Dublin, from which he graduated...Born in Dublin, Jonathan Swift depended on the generosity of his uncle for both his upbringing and education. He studied at Kilkenny School and then at Trinity College, Dublin, from which he graduated in 1689. His Gulliver’s Travels (1726) vilified humankind for its misdirected pride and various atrocities against humanity. The force, range, and bitterness of this text’s indictment against humans who wrongly assume their own rationality strike home even today.

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