George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

A Modest Proposal also targets the calculating way people perceived the poor in designing their projects.

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

The Reader in A Modest Proposal " focuses on two aspects of A Modest Proposal: the voice of Swift and the voice of the Proposer.

While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.

" f one regards the Modest Proposal simply as a criticism of condition, about all one can say is that conditions were bad and that Swift's irony brilliantly underscored this fact ".

Louis A. Landa presents Swift ’ s A Modest Proposal as a critique of the popular and unjustified maxim of mercantilism in the 18th century that " people are the riches of a nation ".

A Modest Proposal is included in many literature programs as an example of early modern western satire.

Outside of the realm of English studies, A Modest Proposal is a relevant piece included in many comparative and global literature and history courses, as well as those of numerous other disciplines in the arts, humanities, and even the social sciences.

In his book A Modest Proposal ( 1984 ), evangelical author Frank Schaeffer emulated Swift's work in social conservative polemic against abortion and euthanasia in a future dystopia that advocated recycling of aborted embryos and fetuses, as well as some disabled infants with compound intellectual, physical and physiological difficulties.

The game Orphan Feast on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim website is loosely based on A Modest Proposal.

The Sealab 2021 character Jodene Sparks references A Modest Proposal when trying to convince Debbie DuPree to eat her own baby.

A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

A Modest Proposal is mentioned in the 1996 film The Birdcage.

This essay had the same shock value as the original " Modest Proposal " for those readers who had not been exposed to Swift.

While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 9 and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble.

* Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal and The Predictions for the Ensuing Year ( written as Isaac Bickerstaff ).

The Coen brothers offered him three to four choices of classical music for him to pick from and he chose Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

On the other hand, Swift was profoundly mistrustful of attempts at reason that resulted in either hubris ( for example, the Projectors satirized in A Tale of a Tub or in Book III of Gulliver's Travels ) or immorality ( such as the speaker of A Modest Proposal, who offers an entirely logical and wholly immoral proposal for cannibalism ).

The Houyhnhnms embody both the good and the bad side of reason, for they have the pure language Swift wished for and the immorally rational approach to solving the problems of humanity ( Yahoos ); the extirpation of the Yahoo population by the horses is very like the speaker of A Modest Proposal.

* Hu Shih: Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature

By 1971, with the releases Pictures at an Exhibition and Trilogy, Emerson began to fully credit classical composers, Modest Mussorgsky for the piano piece which inspired the first album, and Aaron Copland for " Hoedown " on the second.

Modest lakefront homes, selling for less than $ 100, 000 five years ago, now easily fetch $ 200, 000 or more.

* Isaac Brock, lead singer, guitarist, banjoist and songwriter for Modest Mouse

Modest stipends or the salaries of their wives and the increased wealth of many families have made kollel study commonplace for yeshiva graduates.

Existing indie bands that were now able to enter the mainstream included more musically and emotionally complex bands including Modest Mouse ( whose 2004 album Good News for People Who Love Bad News reached the US top 40 and was nominated for a Grammy Award ), Bright Eyes ( who in 2004 had two singles at the top of the Billboard magazine Hot 100 Single Sales ) and Death Cab for Cutie ( whose 2005 album Plans debuted at number four in the US, remaining on the Billboard charts for nearly one year and achieving platinum status and a Grammy nomination ).

Pictures at an Exhibition (, Kartinki s vystavki – Vospominaniye o Viktore Gartmane, " Pictures from an Exhibition – A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann ") is a suite in ten movements composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.

In Tanzania, a popular writer, columnist, and satirist, M. M. Mwanakijiji, has attempted to emulate Swift in his own " A Modest Proposal – On how Chagga People should be removed from Power and Positions of Affluence.

On April 6, 2004, Modest Mouse released their fourth album, the platinum-selling Good News for People Who Love Bad News, which had two hits with " Float On " and " Ocean Breathes Salty " ( both of which they performed on Saturday Night Live on November 13, 2004 ).

* Good News for People Who Love Bad News, a 2004 studio album released by indie rock band Modest Mouse

Good News for People Who Love Bad News is the fourth full-length album recorded by indie rock band Modest Mouse.

* " Bukowski ," a song on the Modest Mouse album, Good News for People Who Love Bad News

From his first mention of marriage to Modest, Tchaikovsky stressed the need for a woman who would allow him complete freedom in continuing his homosexual relations.

Other notable contemporary endorsers include Rick Buckler of The Jam / From The Jam, Myles Heskett of Wolfmother, J. J. Johnson with John Mayer, Billy Kiely of Floor Thirteen, Luis Cardenas of Renegade, Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse, Jason McGerr of Death Cab for Cutie, Fab Moretti of The Strokes, Jim Riley of Rascal Flatts, Meg White of The White Stripes, Jack White of The Dead Weather, Brian St. Clair of Local H, Rodrigo Oliveira of Korzus, Brad Morgan of Drive-By Truckers and John Fred Young of Black Stone Cherry, Alexis Ignition Rous of Salvaloyds, Jess Margera of Cky, Daniel Stricker of Midnight Juggernauts, and Brian Young of Fountains of Wayne.

From 1849 to 1861 the library was managed by Count Modest von Korff ( 1800 – 76 ), who had been Alexander Pushkin's school-fellow at the Lyceum.

On the December 13, 2010 episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen reads a passage of A Modest Proposal in support of Ted Turner's suggestions on reducing overpopulation by having poor people sell ( to rich people ) their right to bear a single child per family.

The following year, on 18 September, another Radio 4 documentary was broadcast ; called Thoroughly Modest Mollie, this one focused on Horne's frequent ghost-writer, Mollie Millest, and featured Jonathan Rigby as Horne.

In 2006 he began work with Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock on songs that eventually featured on the band's 2007 release, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.

Not just fellow hyper-Romantic Tchaikovsky, but also members of The Five are indebted to these techniques, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, but even Modest Mussorgsky – often portrayed as uninterested in refined orchestration – revered Berlioz and died with a copy of Berlioz's Treatise on Instrumentation on his bed.

* Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky and Ave Maria by Franz Schubert.

Three years later, in the summer of 2002, The Flaming Lips joined bands Cake and Modest Mouse on the Unlimited Sunshine Tour.

Macdonald calls Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and Alexander Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia " powerful orchestral pictures, each unique in its composer's output ".

Modest dividends were paid to shareholders from 1824, and the total traffic carried in 1838 was 181, 708 tons, on which profits of £ 6, 835 were made.

McCarron is credited on such numbers as " Fido Is a Hot Dog Now ", and " Eve Wasn't Modest ' till She Ate that Apple ".

* Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain

* Modest Mussorgsky begins work on Boris Godunov, which is completed six years later.

* Modest Mussorgsky begins work on an opera, Salammbô, which is never finished.

Nights on the Eve of Ivan Kupala inspired Modest Mussorgsky to create his Night on Bald Mountain.