Jonathan Swift wrote satire, political prose and poetry, using invented journeys and exaggerated arguments to expose flaws in politics, science and human behaviour. Gulliver's Travels sends Lemuel Gulliver through societies of tiny people, giants, impractical intellectuals and rational horses, with each voyage changing the target and tone of the satire. A Modest Proposal adopts the voice of a calm economic pamphleteer to suggest a deliberately horrifying solution to Irish poverty, making the gap between tone and subject the point of the piece. Swift's prose is controlled, ironic and often much darker than simplified children's versions of Gulliver suggest. His work fits eighteenth-century satire, political literature and classic travel parody. Read more Less
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