For April Fools’ Day, check out Goldsmith’s “Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog,” which ends with a wonderful comic reversal. Also for today: war plans group chat from Mordor.
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An April Fools’ Day Poem
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Onward He Came, & April Was His Name
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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Swift’s Spectacular April Fool’s Joke
Jonathan Swift Bickerstaff papers are the ultimate satiric attack on astrology.
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