Until 1689 he was a candidate for his master of arts, time when the "Glorius revolution" arise, so he goes to England searching for secure and ambition (he hoped to gain preferment in the Anglican Church). Also his mother helped to become into Sir William Temple's secretary at Moor Park, (a retired diplomat and acquaintance of king William). It was kind of easy, since, they were, distant relatives.

Moor park... place where he knows Esther Johnson. Swift acted as her tutor and mentor, giving her the nickname "Stella", the one whose going to dedicate letters (Journal to Stella), however for some biographers it is not for sure they might haveeven more than just a friendship or even a secret marriage.

Swift furnished Esther with the nickname "Vanessa" and she features as one of the main characters in his poem Cadenus and Vanessa.  Many hold that they were secretly married in 1716. Esther followed Swift to Ireland in 1714, where there appears to have been a confrontation, possibly involving Esther Johnson. Esther Vanhomrigh died in 1723 at the age of 35. Another lady with whom he had a close but less intense relationship was Anne Long, a toast of the Kit-Cat Club.

    Between 1710 and 1714 was adviser to the Tory government. In 1713 was appointed dean of the Cathedral of ST Patricik in Dublin.

In February 1702, Swift received his Doctor of Divinity degree from Trinity College, Dublin. That spring he traveled to England and returned to Ireland in October, accompanied by Esther Johnson—now twenty years old—and his friend Rebecca Dingley, another member of William Temple's household. There is a great mystery and controversy over Swift's relationship with Esther Johnsonnicknamed "Stella". Manyhold that they were secretly married in 1716.

During his visits to England in these years Swift published A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books and began to gain a reputation as a writer. This led to close, lifelong friendships with Alexander Pope, John Gay, and John Arbuthnot, forming the core of the Martinus Scriblerus Club (founded in 1713).

Swift became increasingly active politically in these years. From 1707 to 1709 and again in 1710, Swift was in London, unsuccessfully urging upon the Whig administration of Lord Godolphin the claims of the Irish clergy to the First-Fruits and Twentieths. He found the opposition Tory leadership more sympathetic to his cause. In 1711, Swift published the political pamphlet "The Conduct of the Allies," attacking the Whig government for its inability to end the prolonged war with France.

Swift was part of the inner circle of the Tory government, and often acted as mediator between Henry St. John the secretary of state for foreign affairs and Robert Harley lord treasurer and prime minister .Swift recorded his experiences and thoughts during this difficult time in a long series of letters to Esther Johnson, later collected and published as The Journal to Stella. The animosity between the two Tory leaders eventually led to the dismissal of Harley in 1714. With the death of Queen Anne and accession of George I that year, the Whigs returned to power, so Tory leaders were tried for treason.

Swift's first major prose work, A Tale of a Tub. In its main thread, theTale recounts the exploits of three sons, representing the main threads of Christianity, who receive a bequest from their father of a coat each, with the added instructions to make no alterations whatsoever. However, the sons soon find that their coats have fallen out of current fashion, and begin to look for loopholes in their father's will that will let them make the needed alterations. For this they struggle with each other for power and dominance. Drapier's Letters in 1724 was a series of pamphlets against the monopoly granted by the English government to William Wood to provide the Irish with copper coinage. In these "letters" Swift posed as a shop-keeper—a draper—in order to criticize the plan. Swift's writing was so effective that the government wanted the true identity of the author. On returning to Dublin after one of his trips to England, Swift was greeted with a banner, "Welcome Home, Drapier".

Gulliver's Travels, which Swift wrote at Woodbrook House in County Laois, was published in 1726. It is regarded as his masterpiece. Though it has often been mistakenly thought of and published in bowdlerized form as a children's book, it is a great and sophisticated satire of human nature based on Swift's experience of his times.

   His novel gulliver´s travels had a radical influence on english writers as william godwin and thomas paine .

  He died in 1745 leaving the bulk of his fortune to the poor and having to be built at their expense a madhouse.

Curiosities:

* He is considered the creator of the female name Vanessa, who is currently enjoying great popularity. In 1713 he wrote a long poem, Cadenus and Vanessa, published as a book in 1726, which contains in its title an anagram and a neologism. Cadenus is an anagram of Dean Swift was dean / dean. The neologism is Vanessa, referring to Esther Vanhomrigh secret. With the initials of his name and his name (Van-and is-) formed his nickname. 
* Officially, the two moons of Mars (Phobos and Deimos) were discovered in 1877 by astronomer Asaph Hall, who could see them from the Naval Observatory in the United States, near Washington. However, over one hundred and fifty years before Swift had described quite accurately in Gulliver's Travels. The similarities in size, distance and speed of rotation with the satellites mentioned in the story are quite large and yet, optics available for the life of Swift, not allowed to see these celestial bodies so small and so little to 
separate the sphere of Mars (see: serendipity).
Interestingly Voltaire (1694-1778) also mentioned the two satellites of Mars in his Micromegas, a story published in 1752 describing a being from a planet of the star Sirius and its companion planet Saturn.
* Because of these similarities, the two largest craters on Deimos (about 3 km, in diameter each) were named "Swift" and "Voltaire.

SUMMARY OF GULLIVER'S TRAVELS JONATHAN SWIFT

The translation of the full title is "Travels in several remote nations of the world into four parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon and later captain of several ships". The journeys of the author are justified subterfuge to soften the satirical impetus Swift. He says otherwise disseminated these diatribes against political institutions, customs and occupations of civilized contemporaries have not reached many parts.
In the first and second parts, Gulliver recounts his arrival in the country of Lilliput and Brobdingnag after a shipwreck and left respectively, likewise recounts the events of his temporary stay in them.
In Lilliput, the inhabitants are of small stature, about 6 inches so are the animals, plants, etc. In Brobdingnag was populated by a race as opposed to the previous inhabitants reached the height of a tower of regular lifting and other elements are also provided. The third part tells Gulliver's travels to Lupata, the Banibarbas and others, located in the Pacific Ocean and divided into several territories.
Within these territories include an island floating in the air mobility wing up or down by force of a huge magnet, here lay the monarch and the great dignitaries, scientists, mathematicians and astronomers. After a few months, the narrator gets the license to leave the island and try to return to England. Visit Luggnagg island where there are two kinds of beings: some children marked with a circular spot and indelibly on the front, which meant that they were eternal and immortal misfortunes constantly longed in vain for the death as a release from his ailments.
With this the author ridicules the human desire for immortality. Gulliver While waiting for the boat from the island led him to Japan, made a tour of fifteen days to the island of magicians or sorcerers in which he held talks with historical materialized. Then comes to Japan to continue to Europe.
The fourth and final part of a journey to the land of the Houyhnhnms, is the part that most cruel sarcasm and irony distilled, as the Houyhnhnms are a fine race horses, people that pass, govern and communicate ideas and thoughts through modulations their neighing; behaved ultra rational beings, and these underwent Yahoos, descendants of wild animals, abject and degenerate.
The narrator is mistaken for one of the yahoo wearing costumes so, because their sounds are articulated differently and think smarter, this gave merit to be brought by a respectable Houyhnhnms to his home where he showed up to arrest him .
Houyhnhnms Gulliver lived with for three years, his talent, simplicity and nobility were to be considered with special deals that an assembly is uttered from different treatment lavished on Gulliver when he should be treated as a beast of burden.
There are countless cases in which the author ridicules the civilized man believed to be possessed of the highest. This passage is characterized by sarcasm, without limitation, despite making a superb description of the excellent qualities of the Houyhnhnms feel defeated by failure to comply with the obligation to report their discoveries.
With a good dose of sarcasm says "people like me and described not seem to have no desire to be conquered, enslaved, colonized, and killed, and abound in gold, silver, sugar, and snuff, judge humbly, that was not no way appropriate object for our zeal, our valor, our interest ... " 

Main works:

1. The discussion of ancient and modern culture is a topic of Western civilization, namely the comparison between the classical authors considered and that each time you have for today. Alternatively opt for the old value, which is considered almost supermen who have left the final word so insurmountable or modern, that going off the beaten track, find innovative approaches and errors than blindly perpetuated by custom
Similar expressions can be traced from antiquity and the Middle Ages, but that name is not explained until the intervention of Charles Perrault in the French Academy, opening a debate during which Jonathan Swift among others who, to defend William Temple argued thatthe primacy of the Ancients, writes satire The Battle of the Books Ancient and Modern (Thebattle of theBooks, 1704).

2. Tale of a tub is divided into various forms of digression and parts of a "story". The narrative is an allegory that follows the adventures of three brothers: Peter, Martin, and Jack, while they try to gain a foothold in the world. Each of the brothers is one of the primary branches of the Christian religion in the West. This part of the book is a pun on the word tub ("barrel") which is, as Alexander Pope, a common way of referring to the pulpit, and thus is also a reference to Swift's own position as ecclesiastical . The first brother, Peter (by St. Peter) plays the part of the Catholic Church. Jack (by Calvin, but also by Jack Leyden) represents the Protestant church that is currently divided Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Mennonites, and charismatic churches.

The third brother, Martin, the medium, gets its name from Martin Luther), to which Swift used to represent the 'middle way' of the Church of England. The three brothers have inherited three wonderful coats (representing religious practice) on behalf of his father (representing God), and retain their will (the Bible) for guidance. Although this will emphasizes that it is forbidden to make any changes in the layers, they do just the opposite from the beginning. As much as the Bible represents the will and the layers the practice of Christianity, allegory tends to be an apology for the denial of the Church of England to alter their practice in accordance with Puritan demands and continued resistance to side with the Catholic Church.


3. A Modest Proposal ("A ModestProposal") is a satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The paper proposes to solve the problem of tenant farmers in Ireland who can not feed their children because the owners are adamant about the lease. After discussing the problem, suggests a new solution: parents should sell their children to wealthy landlords to eat. Many contemporaries of Swift did not understand the satirical intent of the test and earned Swift criticism for his exceptional writing "bad taste".

The author's aim was to face Irish society, to the deplorable conditions of the laborers and peasants of his country. Your vehicle of transmission was sarcasm, irony and black humor. The work has become a leading light in the essay genre.

4. Gulliver's Travels is a novel by Jonathan Swift, published in 1726. Although it is often considered a children's play, is actually a ferocious satire of society and the human condition disguised as a travel book picturesque country (a genre quite common at the time). Captain Lemuel Gulliver, is in paradoxical situations: a giant among dwarfs, a dwarf among giants and a human being ashamed of his condition in a land populated by wise horses that are more human than the men themselves and distrust rightly thereof.

The work is considered a classic of world literature and has inspired many adaptations and versions. The book became famous as soon as published, John Gay said in a letter in 1726 to Swift that "it is universally read, from the Office of the Council to the nursery ', only since then have never ceased to print.