Daniel Swift

Fierce indignation

The brilliant satirist was a mass of contradictions, but his blistering ‘Modest Proposal’ is as pertinent today as it ever was

  • Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

    John Stubbs

    Viking, pp. 739

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