A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents, or the country, and for making them beneficial to the publick

An edition of A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents, or the country, and for making them beneficial to the publick (1730)

A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents or the country, and for making them beneficial to the publick.

By Jonathan Swift

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Publish Date

1730

Publisher

Re-printed for Weaver Bickerton

Language

eng

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A Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general

subjects: English Political satire, English Religious satire, Politics and government, Humor