Some of you may not know this, but Swift was mocking the revered economist William Petty in that work.
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 07:11:06PM -0600, Carrol Cox wrote: > Ian, > > Attempts to use the Modest Proposal as a model for satire never succeed > -- the original prose echoes too strongly in the mind and makes the pale > imitation (no matter how honorable the content) almost impossible to > read. :-) > > It is no accident that Swiftian irony has the generic name of -- > Swiftian irony. > > Carrol > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
