A scene from Gulliver’s Travels (2010)
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Jonathan Swift was born 350 years ago on 30 November 1667. He is one of the great writers and satirists of the early eighteenth century. We most commonly think of him now as the author of the fantastical voyages of Gulliver’s Travels. He is also known for his devastatingly savage political pamphlet A Modest Proposal, in which he attacked the heartlessness of contemporary attitudes to the poor through the mouthpiece of an ironic speaker, who urged the Irish to eat babies as a cunning way of alleviating both population growth and famine.
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