A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, or in short A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written anonymously by the Irish clergyman and writer Jonathan Swift in 1729.

Swift is known to be adept at both the Horatian and Juvenelian styles of satire, wrote his books anonymously or under pseudonyms such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier.

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