![An elegy on Mr. Patrige [Partridge], the almanack-maker, who died on the 29th of March last, 1708.](/IIIF/000250000/000248020/vtls000248020_001.jp2/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
An elegy on Mr. Patrige [Partridge], the almanack-maker, who died on the 29th of March last, 1708.
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| Summary: | This was Swift's first separately published poem. John Partridge (1644-1715), a shoemaker turned astrologer and almanack-maker who published 'Merlinus Liberatus' annually. In 1707, Parker called "...for some able polite pen of the Church of England" to chastise Partridge [as the tone in many of his leaflets and pamphlets displeased the clergy of the Church of England]. In early 1708 was published an almanac Swift wrote [signed "Issac Bickerstaff"] predicting Partridge's own death "upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever". On 30 March "The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions" [in which there is a detailed account of Partridge's death] and this broadside "An elegy on Mr. Patrige [sic], the almanack-maker, who died on the 29th of March last, 1708" followed shortly afterwards. Swift's joke was taken seriously at first - Stationer's Hall striking Partridge's name from it's rolls. Partridge proclaimed he was still alive but the joke continued for almost another year, with numerous "Bickerstaffiana" pamphlets being produced. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh:
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re-printed in the year 1708.
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| Notes: | Broadside printed on one side of the leaf only, folio; with light evidence of having once been folded. Physical description: 1 broadside; 32 x 21 cm. Citations/References: Teerink. 497 more |
As a digital copy of this item is available, the original will not be issued.
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EPH D617 |
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Ephemera |
