A Critical Fable: Dear Sir (or Dear Madam) Who Happen to Glance at This Title-Page Printed You’ll See to Enhance Its Aesthetic Attraction, Pray Buy, If … This Excellent Bargain (Classic Reprint)

A Critical Fable: Dear Sir (or Dear Madam) Who Happen to Glance at This Title-Page Printed You'll See to Enhance Its Aesthetic Attraction, Pray Buy, If ... This Excellent Bargain (Classic Reprint)





GENTLE READER, THE book you're about to peruse has only one object, which is to amuse. If, as over its pages you may chance to potter, you discover it's rather more pungent and hotter than this simple pretension might lead one to think, recollect, if you please, there's a devil in ink; and a critic who starts without any intention to do more than recount, will find his apprehension of the poets running on to minutely-limned pictures of the men as he sees them. Neither praises nor strictures were in my design for I tried to elude them; but a man, plus his writings, must always include them inferentially, even if nothing be stated. As the picture emerges, the sitter stands rated. But who would be backward when others have done the very same thing in a search of pure fun? Sixty·odd years ago, a volume appeared called "A Fable for Critics," wherein were ensphered eighteen authors of merit. The poet who selected them dared many sly prods just because he respected the

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