A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift's 1729 satirical essay that offers a shocking ironic 'solution' to poverty in Ireland, using parody, persona, and statistical mockery to criticize social and politic…
Areopagitica — John Milton's 1644 Defense of Unlicensed Printing Areopagitica Areopagitica (1644) is John Milton's prose tract arguing against prior restraint and for liberty of unlicensed printing; it remains a foundational rhetorical defense of freedom of…
