Food for Thought: Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Other Writings
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I hope you've brought your appetite, because today we're looking at some of Dr. Swift's shorter prose satires (along with a couple of poems) and he certainly gives us plenty to chew on.
"A Description of the Morning": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45266/a-description-of-the-morning
"A Description of a City Shower": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50578/a-description-of-a-city-shower
"The Battle of the Books": https://www.gutenberg.org/files/623/623-h/623-h.htm
"A Tale of a Tub": https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4737
"A Modest Proposal": https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm
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