"In all distresses of our friends,
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent to ease us,
Points out some circumstance to please us."
        (Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D., 7-10)

1. Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers
2. The Beasts' Confession
3. A Description of the Morning
4. The Lady's Dressing Room
5. On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet
6. A Satirical Elegy
7. Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
8. Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
9. To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair
10. Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.

Notes on Life and Works

• Probyn, Clive. "Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: Jonathan
Family name: Swift
Birth date: 30 November 1667
Death date: 19 October 1745
Nationality: Irish
Family relations
          father: Jonathan Swift
          mother: Abigail Swift
          sister: Jane Fenton
          grandfather: Thomas Swift
Languages
          French
          Latin
          Greek
Education
          Grammar school at Kilkenny
          Trinity College, Dublin (B.A.): 24 April 1682 to February 1686
          Hart Hall, Oxford (B.A.) to June 1692
          Hart Hall, Oxford (M.A.) to 5 July 1692
          Dublin (D.D.) to February 1701
Religion: Anglican
Politics: Whig
Literary period: Augustan
Occupations
          Dean
          Historiographer to the Queen
Residences
          Dublin
          Laracor
          Moor Park
          Upper Letcombe, Berkshire
          Whitehaven, Cumberland
          17 Hoey's Court, Dublin: 30 November 1667
Illnesses
          Paralysis
          Labyrinthine vertigo
          Aphasia
Buried at: Cathedral of St. Patrick
First RPO edition: 1997