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So looking at jonathan swift, why did he publish a modest proposal and gulliver's travels anonymously? and we have four options here.
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Let's start with a.
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Is it because he wasn't sure they would be popular? no, this is not the case.
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His works were popular at the time.
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Just five years before a modest proposal, he published a set of letters called thrapia's letters.
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And these were also anonymous, although a lot of people in ireland knew he wrote it, and they criticized the english government and they were so popular that a price was put on his head, a bounty, to get him arrested.
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So he was expecting them to be quite popular, his previous works were as well.
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But that does give you a hint at the actual answer here.
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Option d...