This task completed, Swift went again to Ireland to another parish, and threw himself into political pamphleteering with great effect, one of the results of his exertions being the securing of freedom from taxation for the Irish clergy.

He subsequently became Dean of St.Patrick's in Dublin, and for a period achieved great popularity owing to his powerful political writings.
While in what he called his "exile" he wrote _Gulliver's Travels_, which was at first published anonymously, the secret of the authorship being so closely guarded that the publisher did not know who was the author.
Dr.Johnson characterized it as "A production so new and strange that it filled the reader with admiration and amazement.

It was read by the high and low, the learned and the illiterate." In this work, Jonathan Swift appears as one of the greatest masters of English we have ever had; as endowed with an imaginative genius inferior to few; as a keen and pitiless critic of the world, and a bitter misanthropic accounter of humanity at large.

Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.

His hero, Gulliver, discovers race after race of beings who typify the genera in his classification of mankind.