A Fable for Critics

Title

en_US A Fable for Critics

Description

en_US James Russell Lowell

Creator

en_US Lowell, James Russell See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:08:00Z

en_US 1993-06

en_US 1891

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:08:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 1848

Abstract

en_US 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!

Identifier

en_US 1887 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77453

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Riverside Press: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PS2309.A1 1890 See all items with this value

en_US Tangential book See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole