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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift Please welcome the Godfather of Satire, Jonathan Swift. A Modest Proposal is his short masterpiece. Full title: 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. Published anonymously by Swift in 1729, the essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution. Jonathan Swift that proposes the Irish poor sell their children as food to the wealthy to solve poverty and overpopulation, using shocking irony to critique British exploitation and societal indifference in Ireland. Written from the perspective of a fictional narrator, the essay uses cold, economic language to suggest butchering children, highlighting the dehumanization of the Irish and exposing the moral failings of the ruling class. The title has become a byword for any outrageous solution to a problem. 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. His essay, A Modest Proposal, was one of the most controversial pieces of its day. #jonathanswift #gulliverstravels #amodestproposal Read the whole story...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

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«Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.» (from Preface to the Battle of the Books) ~ «I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)» (from Gulliver's Travels, Part IV, Chapter 3) ~ #HappyBirthday #JonathanSwift (1667-1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, novelist, poet, political pamphleteer and cleric, whose fiercely ironic novels and essays, including world classics such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal and A Tale of a Tub, were immensely popular in his own time for their ribald humor and imaginative insight into human nature. Swift's object was to expose corruption and express political and social criticism through indirection. Swift is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier – or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian". Swift was, and remains, one of the most popular and readable authors of the 18th century, an author of humor and humanity, who is as often enlightening as he is ironical. ~ Best-known works: • A Tale of a Tub (1697/1704, satire) • The Battle of the Books (1704, satire) • An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1708, satirical pamphlet) • The Drapier's Letters (1724-25, series of pamphlets) • Gulliver's Travels (1726, novel) • A Modest Proposal (1729, satirical essay) ~ «I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.» (from A Modest Proposal) ~ #Swift #GulliversTravels #AModestProposal #ATaleOfATub #TheBattleOfTheBooks #DrapiersLetters #Gulliver #book #books #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BqylhZBHl0i/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qab8vs8at1of

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«It is a melancholy object to walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and all importuning every passenger for an alms.» (from A Modest Proposal) ~ #CurrentlyReading 🇮🇪🍽💸 Penguin Little Black Classics edition of A Modest Proposal by #JonathanSwift, which includes in three other prose satires and a poem besides the famous title work. These works are generally written about the poverty in Ireland and corruptions, mostly blaming the politics, the religious schemes and the disorder related to the English throne. Having read the most of the book, I can surely say that Swift was a master of wit, a real genius and an unflinching critic of societies and politics of both his homeland, Ireland, and the Great Britain. ~ #AModestProposal #ModestProposal #Swift #AShortViewOftheStateofIreland #ADescriptionOfACityShower #Ireland #Dublin #AMeditationUponABroomstick #book #books #bookstagram #currentread #reading #read #booklove #bookoftheday #instabook #instagood #literature #reading #bookclub #love #booklion #booktube #bookworm #satire #epicreads #igreads

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Inktober Day 1. The prompt asked for Swift. I'm not sure what an 18th century nutritionist has to do with October but here we go. #inktober #inktober2017 #inktoberday1 #art #sketch #ink #art #artistsoninstagram #johnathanswift #amodestproposal #guliverstravels #classicliterature #artistsoninstagram

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A teaser. The printer’s son, hung. The power of this edition is hard to describe...it is simply achingly strong. #AModestProposal #SalvagePress #finepress #finebinding #bookarts #darkart

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Unpacking three copies of Jamie Murphy’s remarkable new edition of A Modest Proposal. This the Irish porcelain inlay on the box. More on this later...it is simply astounding. #AModestProposal #finepress #artistbook #finebooks #darkart #rarebooks