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Gulliver's Travels  Irish-born Anglican clergyman Jonathan Swift, also known as Dean Swift, who was also a cousin to John Dryden. A political pamphleteer and piercing satirist, Swift wrote his masterpiece Gulliver's Travels, a criticism of society and its institutions, set in an imaginary land of fantastic creatures, after his return to Dublin as the dean of St Patrick's. | Satirical novel by the Irish writer Jonathan Swift published in 1726. The four countries visited by the narrator Gulliver ridicule different aspects of human nature, customs, and politics. |
| Gulliver's travels take him to Lilliput, whose inhabitants are only 15 cm/6 in tall; Brobdingnag, where they are gigantic; Laputa, run by mad scientists; and the land of the Houyhnhnms, horses who embody reason and virtue, while the human Yahoos have only the worst human qualities. |
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