Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was born on Nov 30, 1667 in Kingdom of Ireland [now Republic of Ireland]. Jonathan Swift's big-screen debut came with Gulliver Mickey directed by Burt Gillett in 1934. Jonathan Swift is known for Castle in the Sky directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Mayumi Tanaka stars as Pazu and Keiko Yokozawa as Sheeta. The upcoming new movie Jonathan Swift plays is Gulliver's Travels which will be released on Dec 25, 2010.

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 - 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms-such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier-or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".