Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

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This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferrara, published in 1842. The writer maintains that both of these works, while greatly separated by time and subject matter, each present social criticism that pertains the contemporary eras of Swift and Browning. Nine pages in length, six sources are cited.