id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1241 Jonathan Swift - Wikipedia .html text/html 8420 926 74 Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish[1] satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin,[2] hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". His printer, Edward Waters, was convicted of seditious libel in 1720, but four years later a grand jury refused to find that the Drapier's Letters (which, though written under a pseudonym, were universally known to be Swift's work) were seditious.[35] Swift responded with an attack on the Irish judiciary almost unparalleled in its ferocity, his principal target being the "vile and profligate villain" William Whitshed, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.[36] "A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind" (1707–1711): Full text: Jonathan Swift Archives, King's College London[46] Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Texts at Project Gutenberg: Volume One, Volume Two ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1241.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1241.txt