Jonathan Swift - Writers and their Work Author:Ian Higgins The books focus is the major satires upon which Swift's literary reputation principally rests including A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal and the infamous scatalogical poems. Swift was the greatest prose satirist in the English language and this critical analysis highlights the extremism of Swiftian satire and its off-the-pa... more »ge menaces.« less