Literary
Swift's death maskJohn Ruskin named him as one of the three people in history who were the most influential for him.[53] George Orwell named him as one of the writers he most admired, despite disagreeing with him on almost every moral and political issue.[54] Modernist poet Edith Sitwell wrote a fictional biography of Swift, titled I Live Under a Black Sun and published in 1937.[55] A. L. Rowse wrote a biography of Swift,[56] essays on his works,[57][58] and edited the Pan Books edition of Gulliver's Travels.[59]
Literary scholar Frank Stier Goodwin wrote a full biography of Swift: Jonathan Swift – Giant in Chains, issued by Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York (1940, 450pp, with Bibliography).
In 1982, Soviet playwright Grigory Gorin wrote a theatrical fantasy called The House That Swift Built based on the last years of Jonathan Swift's life and episodes of his works.[60] The play was filmed by director Mark Zakharov in the 1984 two-part television movie of the same name. Jake Arnott features him in his 2017 novel The Fatal Tree.[61] A 2017 analysis of library holdings data revealed that Swift is the most popular Irish author, and that Gulliver’s Travels is the most widely held work of Irish literature in libraries globally.[62]
The first woman to write a biography of Swift was Sophie Shilleto Smith, who published Dean Swift in 1910.[63][64]
Eponymous places
Swift crater, a crater on Mars's moon Deimos, is named after Jonathan Swift, who predicted the existence of the moons of Mars.[65]
In honour of Swift's long-time residence in Trim, there are several monuments in the town marking his legacy. Most notable is Swift's Street, named after him. Trim also holds a recurring festival in honour of Swift, called the Trim Swift Festival. In 2020, the festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has not been held since.[66]
