ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The author of the pseudonymous Travels was the Church-of-Ireland Dean of St. Patrick’s in Dublin, Jonathan Swift. Swift wrote that his satiric project in the Travels was built upon a “great foundation of Misanthropy” and that his intention was “to vex the world”, not entertain it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels was first published in 1726 under the title Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. The fantastical narrative was initially presented as a factual account written by ‘Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships’.

Detailed explanation-3: -Best known as the author of A Modest Proposal (1729), Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and A Tale Of A Tub (1704), Swift is widely acknowledged as the greatest prose satirist in the history of English literature.