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Jonathan swift brief biography of mozart

          All three of these historical figures—Mozart, Swift, and Voltaire—lived during the Enlightenment, a period that emphasized reason, individualism....

          The boy wrote his first symphony at eight, his first opera at twelve.

        1. SWIFT, JONATHAN (–), English satirist, poet, and clergyman.
        2. All three of these historical figures—Mozart, Swift, and Voltaire—lived during the Enlightenment, a period that emphasized reason, individualism.
        3. Mozart's background.
        4. In , composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.

          5. Jonathan Swift: The Life and Works

          This page contains a short biography of Jonathan Swift taken from The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, ed. Robert Welch (1996), together with short entries on his major fiction - novels and stories - from the same source.



          Life

          Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin, son of a steward of the King’s Inns in Dublin, he was educated at Kilkenny School, and TCD.

          In 1689, disgusted with the policy of preferment of Catholics being practised in Dublin by James II’s Viceroy, Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell, and anxious for his future, he left Ireland and became personal secretary to Sir William Temple, a retired diplomat, who had helped arrange the marriage of William and Mary.

          He lived with him at Moor Park, Surrey, where he met Esther Johnson (Stella), then a young girl, a life-long friend and companion.
           At Moor Park Swift studied and wrote a series of Pindaric Odes during 1690-91 before returni