Monday – April Fools Day For reasons I can’t explain, 18th century Britain was into April Fools Day. Jonathan Swift in particular loved the occasion and produced some of the great literary pranks in history. (See the links below.) Today, however, I present the work of one William Combe, who in 1777 wrote The First […]
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Onward He Came, & April Was His Name
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Swift’s Spectacular April Fool’s Joke
Jonathan Swift Bickerstaff papers are the ultimate satiric attack on astrology.
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