Jonathan Swift has been named one of the most memorable satirists in English, Swift's AModest Proposal is probably the most famous satirical essay in the history of the English language (Bromberg). A Modest Proposal, published in 1729 as a pamphlet, discussed the state of poverty and overpopulation in Ireland and how the sale of children would not only provide money to the person selling them, but could be turned into food, gloves and shoes. Swift criticizes the immortality of equating life with wealth in the eyes of the upper class in his modest proposal. Swift was the son of English parents, born in Dublin, Ireland in the year 1667. Swift's father died and was then abandoned by his mother, he received a good education with the help of his relatives, later attending Trinity College Dublin where he earned his degree. Swift wrote numerous poems but did not find expression until he moved from verse to prose satire and composed. . . Tale of a Bathtub, one of his major works (Quintana). Swift later became the Tories' leading pamphleteer. Due to the death of Q...