Original: Jonathan Swift (30 November, 1667 - 19 October, 1745) was an Anglo-IrishEncyclopaedia Britannica: "Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language".
Simplified: Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for the Tories), poet and cleric.