The feeling was mutual: Swift was no fan of the English rule, as he made abundantly clear in a series of political pamphlets. Swift wasn't winning any popularity contests in England, that's for sure. By the time Swift published A Modest Proposal, he'd already had his work misinterpreted by the Queen of England and countless other humorless readers who didn't understand irony. If you thought Swift was serious about boiling babies, you wouldn't be the first.
A self-appointed shock jock, Swift was just satirizing the stingy British approach to dealing with their Irish subjects.
The 18th century may have been a wild time, but Swift's proposal wasn't for real. Okay, stop and take a moment to pick your collective jaws off the ground.
If you want to know how different the world was in 1729, consider Jonathan Swift's case for cannibalism in A Modest Proposal.
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