Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like "Gulliver's Travels", "A Modest Proposal", "A Journal to Stella", "The Drapier's Letters", "The Battle of the Books", and "A Tale of a Tub". Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is less well known for his poetry. Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Jonathan Swift. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift
When the Proposal was published in 1729, Swift was quickly attacked, and even accused of barbarity the exact state the Proposal was written to expose. librivox.org/a-modest-proposal-by-jonathan-swift/
In fact, Swift made a smart guess. The only thing he didn't foretell was the grounds on which he will be 'at the top.' www.geocities.com/seo_advice/gullivers_travels.html
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