jonathan swift a modest proposal english edition

Jonathan Swift suggests in his 'A Modest Proposal' that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for the upper class. Jonathan Swift a reputation as the greatest prose satirist in English literature. 'A Modest Proposal' is a satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. A modest proposal and other satirical works (Dover thrift editions). The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish. Satire is the use of irony, humor or exaggeration to criticize. 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, 1 commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.' Language : English Language : English Publisher : Les Editions de Londres ISBN : 9781909782358 Categories : Fiction /. Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' is a satirical essay meant to underline the problems of both the English and the Irish in 1729.

These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes. To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical solution suggested by Jonathan Swift in his essay A Modest Proposal (1729). 'It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. The Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swifts savagely satirical A Modest Proposal and Other Writings is edited with an introduction and notes by Carol Fabricant.

Jonathan swift a modest proposal english edition