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.
Subtitle: Dublin
By: Printed by S. Harding, 1729.
Publisher: Houghton Library
Published: 1979
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Description: 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
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