A Fable for Critics · Markoe DePorres Club

Title: en_US A Fable for Critics
Description: en_US James Russell Lowell
Creator: en_US Lowell, James Russell
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; en_US Tangential book; en_US Title Page Scanned
Type: en_US Book, Whole