A Modest Proposal
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A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to simply as A Modest Pr
1729 London reprinting of A Modest Proposal
A painting of Jonathan Swift
Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput
A Modest Proposal
…Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to simply as A Modest Proposal, is a 1729 satirical essay by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. The essay, written from the perspective of a fictional narrator, suggests that the Irish poor could ease their economic troubles by selling their…
Portrait by Charles Jervas, 1710
The house in which Swift was born; 1865 illustration
Jonathan Swift in 1682, by Thomas Pooley. The artist had married into the Swift family.
Jonathan Swift (shown without wig) by Rupert Barber, 1745, National Portrait Gallery, London