A Fable for Critics
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Lowell, James Russell
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1848
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This strange booklet begins with a rubricated title page offering a wonderfully crazy perspective on the work. Multiple prefaces indicate that the work was first published anonymously. It seems to have outgrown its first conception as a fable. I find the word plays and off-rhymes enjoyable in the short run. I lasted some twenty pages. The sections I stayed for featured a long discursus on Daphne and the introduction of the arch-enemy, the critic. Two passages stand out, the first on the critic: And here I must say he wrote excellent articles/On Hebraical points, or the force of Greek particles;/They filled up the space nothing else was prepared for,/And nobody read that which nobody cared for.... The bored or frustrated reader will find on 33 a helpful list of options for what he can do, including lighting his cigar with the book!
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The Riverside Press: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
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1887 (Access ID)