Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Irish satirist, essayist, prose writer and poet, who has found his calling as a cleric of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. “A Tale of a Tub” is one the most famous and masterful of Swift’s satire works. It is a prose parody consisting of several sections about the morals and ethics of England, a satire of religious over? ow, tendencies in literature, politics, theology, and even medicine. Nothing went unnoticed!