relatives and studied at Trinity College,Dublin.After he left college, he became the private secretary of a distant relative,Sir William Temple who looked upon him as a servant.After ten years of living 5 in Temple's house,he left the place and worked in a little church in Ireland.Remembering how he had suffered in his youth,he tried to help every young man of talent in his life.Swift had been afflicted with a brain disease which ended in madness.He died in 1745 and bequeathed all his property to the building ofa mad-house in Dublin. 2.2 Major works While living in Temple's house,Swift wrote two works,The Battle of the Books《书战》(1704)，and A Tale ofa Tub《木桶的故 (1704).The former is a satirical dialogue on the comparative merits of ancient and modern writers.It mainly attacks on pedantry(卖弄学问)in literary world of the time.The latter is a prose satire written in the form of a parable and a sharp attack on the disputes among the different sects of the Christian religion. Among the pamphlets he wrote about Ireland,the best-known pieces are The Drapier's Letters《一个麻布商的书信》andA Modest Proposal.The Drapier's Letters were written of the actual social struggle against the debasement of the Irish coin.In A Modes Popo.sal《一个小小的建议》，Swit,with bitter irony,suggests that the poor Irish peasants fatten their one-year-old children and then sellrelatives and studied at Trinity College, Dublin. After he left college, he became the private secretary of a distant relative, Sir William Temple who looked upon him as a servant. After ten years of living in Temple’s house, he left the place and worked in a little church in Ireland. Remembering how he had suffered in his youth, he tried to help every young man of talent in his life. Swift had been afflicted with a brain disease which ended in madness. He died in 1745 and bequeathed all his property to the building of a mad-house in Dublin. 2.2 Major works While living in Temple’s house, Swift wrote two works, The Battle of the Books 《书战》(1704), and A Tale of a Tub《木桶的故 事》 (1704). The former is a satirical dialogue on the comparative merits of ancient and modern writers. It mainly attacks on pedantry( 卖弄学问) in literary world of the time. The latter is a prose satire written in the form of a parable and a sharp attack on the disputes among the different sects of the Christian religion. Among the pamphlets he wrote about Ireland, the best-known pieces are The Drapier' s Letters《一个麻布商的书信》 and A Modest Proposal. The Drapier's Letters were written of the actual social struggle against the debasement of the Irish coin. In A Modest Proposal《一个小小的建议》, Swift, with bitter irony, suggests that the poor Irish peasants fatten their one-year-old children and then sell 5’ 5’ 5’