The great gift of Swift, as a writer, lies in his concise and meticulous style. In his timeless satires ("Gulliver's Travels", "A Modest Proposal", "The Battle of the Books", etc.) he starts from an improbable conception and continues it through all its consequences, drawing from it a series of comic incidents, pretending at the same time not to understand the obvious. In his poems and essays, the reader will encounter satire, melancholy, disdain for the machinations of the state, as well as the war he declared "against fools", which made him so feared, resulting in the "fools" rallying against him and tarnishing his memory "for eternity".