"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."

Jonathan Swift was born on November 30, 1667. He received a bachelor's degree from Trinity College (http://www.biography.com/people/jonathan-swift-9500342 biography.com). He received a Master's from Oxford in 1692. He was ordained a priest in the Church of Ireland (a sect of the Anglican church in Ireland) in 1695 and was awarded a D.D. from Dublin University in 1701.  (http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/swift/chron.html A Chronology of Jonathan Swift's Life by David Cody). 

"There is an almost complete absence of sustained scholarship on the subject of Swift's Modest Proposal." (George Wittkowsky, via eNotes.com Jonathan Swift essay)


"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."(Jonathan Swift, via BrainyQuote.com)