The career of Swift is one of the magnificient chapters of English literature. To understand his works we should know some important events of his life, which may have influenced him and also the political background without which Gulliver would not have been born.The life of Jonathan Swift spanned a time of significant religious and political change in England and Europe. Both the monarchy and the absolute power of the Roman Catholic Church were …showed first 75 words of 2554 total…

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