Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 1, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish political pamphleteer, satirist (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and clergyman, who later became Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, and henceforth “Brigadier Swift”. Swift is best known for works such as The Fable of a Bathing Place (1704), A Disputation Against the Abolition of Christianity (1712), Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposition (1729). He is considered by the Encyclopædia Britannica to be one of the most important prose satirists in the English language, though he is not known as a poet. He originally published all of his works under the pseudonyms “Lemuel Gulliver”, “Isaac Bickerstaff”, and “M. B. Draper”, or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satirical writing: the Horatian and the Juvenal (juvenile) genres. His ironic and deadpan style of writing, especially in his work A Modest Proposal, led to this style of satire being called “Swiftian”.