After Jupiter consults the book of fate in a prose work by this author, Momus recruits a goddess with monsters suckling from her spleen. Richard Steele founded his paper The Tatler using a pen name borrowed from this author. A bee critiques the architecture of a spider’s web in that recounting of events “last Friday” by this author that compares libraries to cemeteries. This author, who predicted the death of the astrologer John Partridge under the pseudonym (*) Isaac Bickerstaff, provided an account of a fight between the Ancients and the Moderns in St. James’s Library. A work by this author uses Peter, Martin, and Jack to represent branches of Christianity. This author suggested reducing the charges of a mother and lessening the number of Papists as benefits of his plan for the English to eat Irish children. For 10 points, name this satirical author of The Tale of a Tub and A Modest Proposal. ■END■
ANSWER: Jonathan Swift
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