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Letter: Beyond powers of Swift

D. Sanderson
Saturday 10 April 1993 23:02 BST
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TV CRITIC Allison Pearson ('Shock, horror, spoof, shame', 4 April) claims that Jonathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal in 1792. Such a feat would have been beyond the powers of even Swift, who died in 1745.

D Sanderson, London SW19

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